Interview with Kyra Smith
Posted on May 4, 2023
Editorial Assistant Evan Jurmain’s interview with Winter 2023 contributor Kyra Smith on her story "Shiver"
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An Interview with Chelsea Peters
Posted on April 24, 2023
Editorial Assistant Evan Jurmain’s Interview with Spring 2023 Issue Contributor Chelsea Peters
Tommy Duggan: Review of Best Canadian Stories 2023
Posted on April 21, 2023
For the 52nd time Biblioasis has bestowed to readers a Best Canadian Stories for our edification and pleasure. Comprising 15 stories and available at $22.95 (or about a buck-fifty a story-pop), it is, at the risk of pre-empting the rest of this review, almost certainly worth your cash and the armchair-time to imbibe.
Excerpt from "Mudlark" by Chelsea Peters
Posted on March 27, 2023
Mudlark by Chelsea Peters
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The girl in front of him was skinny, the large, round bump of the belly beneath her hoodie evident even from behind. He’d been waiting behind her for at least ten minutes, and had drawn up a whole story for how she’d gotten herself into this situation: young, pregnant, and alone at the blood clinic. Absent parents, a rotten boyfriend — he was sad for her. For all their troubles, at least his girls had both escaped their teens without getting themselves knocked up.
Sherry Coffey: Dauntless, Why I’m Here, Jill Frayne.
Posted on March 22, 2023
Who hasn’t wanted to be the fly on the wall of a therapist’s office? To hear the secrets people pay others to know? Jill Frayne’s Why I’m Here is a novel set in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1995 and tells the story of Helen Cotillard, a counsellor who works at the only counselling agency in the Territory. Out of necessity, Helen “took all comers” in her practice. Her new client, Gale, is a scrappy and unhappy adolescent from Cobalt, Ontario, who is brought to therapy by her stepmother.
Chris Benjamin: MacLeod hits all his notes, Animal Person, Alexander MacLeod.
Posted on March 22, 2023
More than a decade ago, Alexander MacLeod showed unusual patience with his debut short story collection, Light Lifting. Patience in his delivery, care in his craft. Not a word out of place, some would say. The collection itself was the result of more than a decade of story writing and publishing one at a time in literary journals. Great short stories take time to master, and the bevy of jury recognitions his debut garnered was more indication MacLeod had put in the work.
Alice Zorn's Reading Recommendation
Posted on January 24, 2023
Alice Zorn's Reading Recommendation
Interview with Fiction Contest Winner, Adèle Barclay
Posted on January 9, 2023
Editorial Assistant Fawn Parker's interview with Adèle Barclay about her story "Here Be Dragons ISO,” which won The Fiddlehead's 2022 Fiction Prize
Congratulations to 2022 Fiction Contest Winner, Adèle Barclay!
Posted on January 9, 2023
We're excited to announce that Adèle Barclay is the winner of our 2022 Fiction Contest and $2000 prize! Their story Here Be Dragons ISO will be featured in the upcoming Winter issue of The Fiddlehead (FH294).
Adèle Barclay is the author of two poetry collections If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, which won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Renaissance Normcore. She is currently working on fiction and creative nonfiction projects. They teach literature and writing at Capilano University.
Excerpt from "Here Be Dragons ISO" by Adèle Barclay
Posted on January 9, 2023
Here Be Dragons ISO by Adèle Barclay
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DRAGON UNCLE DOWN FOR PARK HANGS WITH CRAFT BEER AND HOARDING VARIOUS SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES AND BRONZE OBJECTS
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Current Issue: No. 295
