The Fiddlehead's office will be closed starting tomorrow until January 4th. We would like to thank all our contributors and readers for another amazing year!

This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/translator Forrest Gander ask us to Stop! Look! Listen! to Erin Robinsong’s Wet Dream: thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

Congratulations to our fifteen 2025 Fiction Contest finalists! Thank you to everyone who submitted! And lastly, thank you to our judge, Anuja Varghese! The contest's winner will be announced in early January! Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025...

Stop!Look!Listen! to Issue 305 Contributor Michelle Spencer's Reading Recommendation "There should be a word for books that show up in your life when you need them. Books which obliterate fears or seemingly by magic connect some of the disparate dots of a lifetime" thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

We're thrilled to share that two essays from The Fiddlehead’s Autumn 2024 issue were named among the Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024 in The Best American Essays 2025! A big congratulations to @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social & @nancyhuggett.bsky.social

I’m very happy my long essay “‘Apply a Little Sugar with a Feather” is a notable essay in Best American Essays 2025. Many thanks to @rowanmcc1.bsky.social and @fiddlehd.bsky.social for all that you do! anca.substack.com/p/apply-a-li... #booksky

It's the very last day to submit to our 2025 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem! Submit or post your submission by 11:59 pm Pacific Time for a chance to won $2000 and publication in The Fiddlehead! thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest #poetrycontest #poetry #callforsubmissions #canlit

The deadline for our special issue call Disability: The Revolution! is in two days! Don't miss your chance to submit!

We're always happy to be on this list! The Fiddlehead is open to excellent writing from both emerging and established authors. Canadian writers, check out our general submissions when they open on January 1st!

Barry Dempster, RIP

My poem “I Wanted to Touch Your Shadow” is in the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social

Only TWO more weekends to submit to next summer's special disability issue!

Help us celebrate our 50th Anniversary!

Working my way through the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social and taking my time because SO MANY GOOD WORDS! New-to-me poet Megan Barnet is living in my brain/heart right now. “..the clock / on the pallid wall continues to hack at time / with its arrhythmic arm, all of us lurching forward …”

There are less than two weeks until the deadline for our 2025 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize! Don't miss out on your chance to submit!

Tnrilled to be included in issue no.305 @fiddlehd.bsky.social Many thanks to @saleema.bsky.social for all her kind and thoughtful edits. There are so many great contributions in this issue, including 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize winner Shelley Pacholok.

New this week on the website: editorial assistant Sophia T. R. Godsoe interviews Kate Cayley, whose story "Certainty" was published in Issue 305 (Autumn 2025) on portraying complex relationships, writing narrators that a reader can both sit with and judge, and more. thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...

There is just one week until our Autumn Issue Launch! Don't forget to register by emailing [email protected]!

One of the three Forrest Gander translations featured in the autumn issue of The Fiddlehead.

There is less than one month to enter our 2025 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. thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest

$2000 prize for best poem from @fiddlehd.bsky.social Deadline 1 Dec thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest

Out now on our website, Fiddlehead Editorial Assistant Caitlyn Sinclair's interview with Shelley Pacholok explores how form and tone engage with content in Pacholok's 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest winning story "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor." thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...

Celebrate The Fiddlehead’s newest issue with a virtual launch! Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings with Shelley Pacholok, winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction contest, and issue 305 contributors, A-E Best and Will Richter! Nov. 19, 7pm AST Email [email protected] for the Zoom link!

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃

For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)

thefiddlehead.ca/.../da-lockh.... astonishingly kind review of The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits in The Fiddlehead. "Ghan’s work is a hybrid of poetics and narrative that stretches back to literatures that sprouted well before our often hard-edged rules of fiction and poetry"

A wonderful review of Benjamin Berman Ghan's The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is up at the Fiddlehead: thefiddlehead.ca/content/da-l...

Love this. Look for a suite of new poems by Carl Phillips in the pages of The Fiddlehead in 2026.

For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Joining Amanda Leduc, Therese Estacion is our Creative Nonfiction Editor for the issue! Check out the full call for submissions on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution (1/3)

“Would you like to spend the day with me? I can show you around.” Ooooooooo, an adventure! My favourite kind of day. Let me grab my sunglasses! Kirby @itsakirby.bsky.social Reviews AS IS by Ben Robinson @bengymen.bsky.social The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social thefiddlehead.ca/content/kirb...

Our Autumn issue is now on its way to subscribers, featuring Summer Wishes (2023) by Ann Manuel on the cover. Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305

For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Over the next couple of weeks to introduce them! We are so excited to have disabled author and activist Amanda Leduc overseeing and serving as fiction editor for the issue! (1/4)

We're excited to announce the winner of our 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest is Shelley Pacholok for her essay "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor"! Keep an eye out for when our autumn issue goes live to read an excerpt from her essay! See the full announcement on our website: bit.ly/4obSKPU

Fiddlehead reader Ian Clay Sewall has shared his short film "Mirage," which was recently screened at the EIFF, on our website. Filmed on 3000 feet of 35mm film, the short film chronicles a chaotic fight outside a rural gas station. Watch it now on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/content/ian-...

In this week's Stop! Look! Listen! Kim Pittaway recommends something different: Art-scrolling! Listen to how she accessibly finds art that inspires here: thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

Disabled friends! I am thrilled to be overseeing @fiddlehd.bsky.social's Summer 2026 issue--DISABILITY: THE REVOLUTION. Our theme is REVOLUTION and you can interpret that as widely as you like. If you identify as disabled and want to answer this call, please submit! thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

Congratulations to our fourteen 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest finalists! There was some stiff competition this year. Thank you to our judge Nicole Breit! The contest's winner will be announced on October 10th! Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2024...

Disability: The Revolution! Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025 If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you. See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

Check out episode six of @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social, sponsored by The Fiddlehead, with Drew Lavigne, poet laureate of Moncton and long-time reader for The Fiddlehead!

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