The Fiddlehead is sharing a preview of "The Orange I Promised," a poem that will appear in our fall issue but which needs to be read now. It is a poem of witness, addressing the genocide in Gaza from Gaza itself, where Maryam Hasanat survives, writes and parents. thefiddlehead.ca/content/oran...

Happy Book Birthday to our editor, Sue Sinclair! 🌹

Congratulations to our editors Sue Sinclair and Kasia Van Schaik, along with creative nonfiction editor Therese Estacion, guest editor of our upcoming special disability issue, on being featured in CBC’s Spring Reading List! Check out all the books here: www.cbc.ca/books/readin...

A sneak peek at this year's special summer issue, Disability, the Revolution!

Great to see Anna Veprinska on this list. Look for new work from Anna this summer in our Disability: The Revolution! Special Issue.

The Fiddlehead is excited to announce the finalists of our 2025 Poetry Contest! The winner will be announced in April. Thanks to Douglas Walbourne-Gough, T. Liem, and Bertrand Bickersteth for judging our 2025 Poetry Contest! See the full shortlist here: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025...

Julie Bruck in @fiddlehd.bsky.social 🙌🏽

Poetry people, the new issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social is bonkers. Carl Phillips, Alexandra Oliver, Emily Davidson, Julie Bruck, an interview with Mary Dalton, and so much more. Check it out! (The first poem is by Carl Phillips, the second by Julie Bruck.)

Another remarkable poem by Carl Phillips from our winter issue

Congratulations to Amanda Leduc, guest editor of our forthcoming Disability: The Revolution! issue, on being shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction!

Adam Tavel's poem "[I OEDIPUS am learning . . .]", originally published in Issue 296 (Summer 2023), will be included in his forthcoming collection Ghost-Star King from The Word Works. Ghost-Star King is available for pre-order now: wordworksbooks.org/product/the-...

Calling all artists, photographers and collage-makers! Geist is open for ART & PHOTOGRAPHY submissions until March 12, 2026 🐠 We're looking for art and photography (traditional, digital, mixed media, etc.) to accompany written work in the magazine. Check out our full guidelines at geist.com/submit

The Fiddlehead's 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest is now open for submissions! The winner of the contest will receive $2000 and publication. Thank you to Brian Braganza for judging this year's contest. Unlock your story. Find more information on our website: thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest

When I was a foster parent, I was asked often asked the same common questions. In my essay The Bridge, I tried to answer some of those questions while telling a small piece of my story. #writing #fostercare You can check it out in the winter issue of thefiddlehead.ca @fiddlehd.bsky.social

The Fiddlehead Winter 2026 features their 35th Annual Fiction Contest winner, Ariadne Asho, an interview with Mary Dalton, reviews, new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with excerpts and selected works available to read online. #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @fiddlehd.bsky.social

"I named you after a small brown bird tittering in the hedge, guarding its speckled eggs." #TodaysPoem #poetry For a Trans Daughter by Susan Robertson (@snullr.bsky.social) (2026 The @fiddlehd.bsky.social) www.instagram.com/stories/snul...

I received my contributor's copy of the winter issue of "The Fiddlehead." An honour to be included in such an incredible issue. Thank you to the editors.

A powerful poem by Julie Bruck in the new issue of The Fiddlehead

So honoured my piece was chosen to be a part of this issue of The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social! This essay shares part of my journey as a foster parent you can read an excerpt here and order a copy of the magazine to read the whole piece. #fosterparents #writing thefiddlehead.ca/content/exce...

Thx to @phillipcrymble.bsky.social @fiddlehd.bsky.social for featuring some of my poems! Here’s one!

Missed the change to hear Ariadne Asho talk about her 2025 Fiction Contest winning story "Faultline" at our launch this past weekend? Never fret! Editorial Assistant Anastasios Mihalopoulos' Interviewed Ariadne for our website. Check out the full interview here: thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...

Looking forward to reading a few of the new Carl Phillips poems featured in our winter issue at tomorrow's launch event. Do join us in person if you can. Zoom link available by contacting the email address below.

Tomorrow! If you're planning on joining us on zoom, email us for the link @ [email protected]

Stop! Look! Listen! this week to José Teodoro's listening recommendation: Recordings from the Åland Islands by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer. José will be joining us this Saturday for our Winter Issue Launch to read from his essay "Houston, We Have a Problem" thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

After much anticipation, Issue 306 has arrived at our office! It will be hitting the mail tomorrow.

Congratulations on 35 years, Geist! 🎉✨ Also, welcome to Bluesky!

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Carl Phillips will be gracing the pages of Issue 306 (Winter 2026) of The Fiddlehead. Stop! Look! Listen! this week to his short and sweet listening recommendation! thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

It's time to celebrate the release of The Fiddlehead’s Winter issue! Join us Sat, Feb 7, 2–3 PM (AT), in person at the Fredericton Public Library or online via Zoom for readings by Ariadne Asho (our 2025 Fiction Contest winner!), John McNeil, and José Teodoro. @johnmcneil.bsky.social

We’re excited to announce Ariadne Asho as the winner of our 2025 Fiction Contest for her story “Faultline.” It will appear in the Winter 2026 issue, coming soon! Read judge Anuja Varghese’s editorial now: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2025... Thanks to @anuja-v.bsky.social and to everyone who entered!

UNB's Department of English presents a public reading by Colleen Coco Collins, UNB Writer-in-Residence for Winter 2026! WHEN: 7 pm, Wednesday, January 7th WHERE: The Beaverbrook Room, Harriet Irving Library, (4th floor) This event is free to attend and open to the public.

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.