Emily Hockaday is the author of five chapbooks including Space on Earth and What We Love & Will Not Give Up. Her poems have appeared most recently in Parks & Points, The Fresh Water Review, and Gone Lawn. Her poem Memorial was published in issue 287 of The Fiddlehead, which can be ordered here. She can be found on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday.
Peter Norman’s novel, Emberton (Douglas & McIntyre, 2014), was longlisted for the Sunburst Award. His fiction has appeared in The Walrus, Joyland, Grain, PULP Literature, Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada, and elsewhere. His story Pumphouse Marsh can be found in issue 287 of The Fiddlehead, order your copy today!
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Nathan Sindelar is a writer from rural Nebraska. His stories have appeared in Wigleaf and Mid-American Review. He lives in Kansas City. You can find Nathan's story Incident Report in The Fiddlehead issue 287. Order your copy today!
Mouth Full by Paige Lindsay
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How many mouths have been wrapped around your forks, your spoons, and, on rare and daring occasions, your knives? Whose lips have decorated your glasses with foggy, occasionally scarlet, kisses? We have all eaten from this bowl, this simple wooden vessel. A mother, her daughter, her son and his wife, her granddaughter. It has been across the country twice and it is older than you.
What is your Emergency?
The Waiting Hours, Shandi Mitchell. Viking, 2019.
This very accomplished novel is by a Maritime writer I had never run into before, although she has written another, Under This Unbroken Sky, which I intend to read now.
The Waiting Hours is about emergency workers, and the “waiting hours” of the title, is the period during the depths of the night when, if anything happens, it is usually terrible.
Secret Signature: The Quiet Revolution of Berthe Morisot
One Madder Woman, Dede Crane. Freehand Books 2020
Ruben's Salmon by Elise Thorburn is the winning story from our 2020 Short Fiction Contest:
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Fiction contest judge, Shashi Bhat's editorial on Elise Thorburn's winning story Rubens' Salmon:
Editorial Assistant Taidgh Lynch recently spoke to Naoko Kumagai about her short-fiction piece Karafuto, which was published in The Fiddlehead No. 285 (Autumn 2020). Kumagai has been published in Room magazine, Ricepaper magazine, and Event, and was also longlisted for the CBC non-fiction prize. She lives in Toronto
The Fiddlehead is excited to announce our 2020 Fiction Contest shortlist, judged by Shashi Bhat. The winner of the $2000 contest prize will be announced in early January 2021 and the winning story will be featured in the Winter 2021 issue. Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the following fifteen finalists!
