NOW OPEN: Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem. Submit your best poem for a chance to win $2,000 CAD and be published in The Fiddlehead! This year’s judges are Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough. More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest

Don't forget to register for our free writing in-person workshop with Geneviève Robichaud from 12:30–1:45pm by emailing [email protected]!

Don't forget to join us for the launch of The Fiddlehead’s Special Creative Nonfiction Issue! Saturday, Sept 20 | 12:30–3 PM (AT) Fredericton Public Library & Online via Zoom Visit thefiddlehead.ca/304-launch-p...

Our third and final 304 contributor reading at our Summer Issue Launch at the Fredericton Public Library is Léa Taranto! Léa will be reading from her story "Dear Great Uncle John." Don't forget to register for the Zoom link if you are planning on attending online! www.facebook.com/share/18pba8...

In this week's Stop! Look! Listen! Lise Betteridge shares her reading recommendation: What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop... Join us on Saturday at our Summer Issue Launch Party to listen to Lise Betteridge read from her story "Among the Shards" from Issue 304.

✨ NEW INTERVIEW✨ Danica Klewchuk discusses her upcoming memoir-in-essay collection Standing in the Footprints of Beasts with The Fiddlehead! buff.ly/nQQp26I #NeWestPress #DanicaKlewchuk #NewRelease #ReadLocal #ReadCanadian

We are thrilled to have the opportunity to congratulate three former contributors to The Fiddlehead — Kirti Bhadresa, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and Ian Williams — and, Amanda Leduc, the guest editor of our Summer 2026 Disability-Themed Issue on being named finalists for the 2025 Giller Prize!

Join us in Fredericton for a creative writing workshop that explores writing in conversation with an artifact. Bring along something that sparks memory, curiosity, or meaning (a text, lyric, image, everyday object, etc.) and see what unfolds on the page! Email [email protected] to register!

Don't forget to join us for the launch of The Fiddlehead’s Special Creative Nonfiction Issue! Saturday, Sept 20 | 12:30–3 PM (AT) Fredericton Public Library & Online via Zoom Visit thefiddlehead.ca/304-launch-p...

The newest issue of The Fiddlehead is their creative nonfiction issue featuring a contest-winning essay on loss and grief, with a wide variety of other forms and writers. #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity ‪@fiddlehd.bsky.social‬

It's the final day to submit to our fiction contest! Don't miss your chance to send us your work and win $2000 and publication in The Fiddlehead! Submission guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic... #callforsubmissions #fictioncontest

📣 Today’s the deadline for our fiction contest! Last year’s winner, Luanne Gauvreau, has some great advice:

Fiction Writers! The deadline to enter this year’s fiction contest is days away! Don’t forget to polish up your pieces and submit by Tuesday at midnight! More details here: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...

If you're near Fredericton this weekend, don’t miss this Emancipation Day reading at the Fredericton Region Museum! Saturday, Aug 30, 1–3 PM!

There is exactly one week left to submit to our 2025 Fiction Contest! Don't miss the deadline! This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese. Prize: $2000 + Publication Deadline: September 2, 2025 Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...

You're invited to the launch of the Summer issue! This special extended issue features archival poems from CV2's first 25 years and new work from emerging poets celebrating their first print publication! Aug. 28th, 7pm CT on Zoom. Free, but registration is required: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's the second-to-last weekend to submit to our 2025 Fiction Contest!

As we near the end of #WomenInTranslationMonth, Issue 304 contributor Léa Taranto recommends The Lantern and the Night Moths, a collection of poems translated from their original Chinese by @yilinwriter.bsky.social . Read the recommendation here: thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

I'm so excited to share my love for Denison Avenue by Christina Wong & Daniel Innes in my Stop! Look! Listen! spot on @fiddlehd.bsky.social online! This and much more in my latest #Substack post: Hyperfixation, New Published Work, and Comedy. open.substack.com/pub/juicygre... #writerlife

I LEFT YOU BEHIND by NAZNEEN SHEIKH was reviewed by Sumaiya Matin for THE FIDDLEHEAD: thefiddlehead.ca/content/suma... “I Left You Behind is full of surprise and depth. The prose is at times direct and restrained and, at other times, dreamlike and romantic, patterning the tides of life.”

Nancy Hui Sulaiman sat down with our editorial assistant Michael Yvon Robichaud to discuss form and writing about grief. Nancy Hui Sulaiman's story "The Impact of a Father’s Terminal Cancer Diagnosis" was published in Issue 304 (Summer Creative Nonfiction 2025) thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...

Can you believe our 2025 Fiction Contest closes in less than a month?! Don't miss your chance to submit! This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese. Prize: $2000 + Publication Deadline: September 2, 2025 Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...

In this week's Stop! Look! Listen! Issue 304 (Summer Creative Nonfiction 2025) contributor Judith Lam Tang recommends Denison Avenue by Christina Wong, illustrated by Daniel Innes and explains why it should be on everyone's reading list. thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

a teaser from @ariel-gordon.bsky.social's lovely personal essay in The Fiddlehead in which I have a wee walk-on part (or, I guess, that should be a swim-on part) thefiddlehead.ca/content/exce...

📚 #NMAReadingList 🏆 Cobra Blue Mustang Strat – @fiddlehd.bsky.social In this lyrical, searing essay, @adelebarclay.bsky.social explores memory, trauma, and sisterhood through art and loss. Gold winner, Columns & Essays. #NMA25 #Essays #CreativeNonfiction 🔗 zurl.co/ksBbq

And a big congratulations to Karen Moore! We're delighted to have you in our special creative nonfiction issue!

And we are excited to have Line in our Summer Issue! Read a sneak peek of her fascinating essay on textiles here: thefiddlehead.ca/content/exce...

Our Special Summer Issue's Here! No. 304 celebrates Creative Nonfiction with 150+ pages of true stories, essays, and reflections curated by our talented nonfiction editor @rowanmcc1.bsky.social Plus, read the winner of our first contest collaboration with @cnfc.bsky.social Cover Art: Terry Price

Enter!! I wanna read your work!!

Congratulations, Sheila! 🎊

Going to the beach? Tuck a copy of @fiddlehd.bsky.social in your beach bag. #canlit #neguac #hayisland #nbbluesky

Congratulations, Miranda! 🎉 @mirandaryan.bsky.social‬

13 Cedars presents Everyone’s a Blob, an exhibition by Kathryn Mockler and David Poolman, opening Saturday, July 19 from 1 to 4 p.m., with a reading by Kathryn Mockler at 2 p.m.

In this week's Stop! Look! Listen!, Issue 303 contributor Lena Palacios has written a beautiful introduction and tribute to poet Wanda Coleman. "Coleman was a code-switcher, code-ditcher, and shape-shifter who refused to conform" Read the whole piece here: thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

Léa Taranto is one to watch! Her debut YA novel has just launched, and we’re thrilled to include her essay “Dear Great Uncle John” in our summer nonfiction issue, shipping later this month. Congrats, Léa!

My friend Ariel gave me a copy of a story she wrote. It's called "Swimming Towards the Door" and it appears in The Fiddlehead magazine. Ariel is Canadian "author, poet, and enthusiast" (and much more), Ariel Gordon of Winnipeg. In my opinion, you should all read the story. Photo credit: Mike Deal

Stop! Look! Listen! this week to Issue 303 contributor Alice White's reading recommendation, Deluge by Leila Chatti. "The book’s urgency caught me immediately. It felt like its poems were written close to the veil between worlds, written because they had to be." thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

Our 2025 Fiction Contest is now open for submissions! This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese. Prize: $2000 + Publication Deadline: September 2, 2025 Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic... #callforauthors #submissionsopen #canlit #fiction #callforfiction #litmag

We’re thrilled to celebrate the success of two contributors at the 2025 National Magazine Awards: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025...

Thank you to @fiddlehd.bsky.social & @canadamediaawards.bsky.social for granting “Cobra Blue Mustang Strat” Gold. Having this work about my older sister Elissa, grunge music, teen girl grit, and the legacy of domestic abuse be celebrated on a national scale makes me feel like these stories matter 🎸❤️‍🔥

The Gold award for Fiction goes to Tamas Dobozy for "Tea with Interpol," published in @fiddlehd.bsky.social

Congratulations to the #NMA25 Gold-winning @adelebarclay.bsky.social for @fiddlehd.bsky.social in the category of Columns and Essays for "Cobra Blue Mustang Strat"

Don't forget to register for our virtual Spring issue launch tomorrow! To get the Zoom link, email [email protected]. You can register right up until the start of the event tomorrow, as we will continue to check our email intermittently throughout the day.

In this week's Stop! Look! Listen! Issue 303 contributor Lynn Easton @lynneaston.bsky.social recommends Bren Simmer's poetry collection The Work. Head the full recommendation here: thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

Hop on Zoom this Tuesday, June 10th at 3:00 pm AST for a special @cnfc.bsky.social reading event featuring judge, Danny Ramadan and the three winners of the CNF contest we co-hosted with the Creative Nonfiction Collective! Register for the event here: creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/

In this week's Stop! Look! Listen! Kirsti Mikoda, who will be reading at our upcoming Spring Launch on June 14, recommends the book she returns to again and again: Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

We're excited to launch Issue 303 with a special virtual event! Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings by spring issue contributors, plus selected poems by the late Robert Gibbs, read by our editorial team. To attend, email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link. See you there!

Congratulations Michael Pacey! Michael is the winner of this year's Fiddlehead Poetry Award for his book Van Gogh's Grasshopper. This book prize recognizes the best book of poetry published by a New Brunswick resident in a given year.

There are just a few hours left to submit!