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

📣 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!!