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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that Judith Wright is the winner of our 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest and $2000 prize! Her essay, “Fire Mosaic,” will appear in the upcoming Autumn issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 309).

The graphic announcing the winner of our 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest, Judith Wright.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Congratulations to our fourteen 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest finalists! Thank you to everyone who submitted and thank you to our judge Brian Braganza! The contest's winner will be announced in early October! Visit our website to see who made the shortlist: thefiddlehead.ca/content/2026...

The graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest. The background is blue with an open padlock. There is a photo of Brian Braganza in the bottom left corner. The graphic reads: Unlock your story. Enter our 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest. Deadline: June 1 2026. Enter via submittable. $2000 Prize plus publication. Judged by Brian Braganza. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our friends at Room Magazine are currently fundraising in order to keep the magazine going. The fund will support the production of the journal and pay contributors and staff. You can donate, or purchase or bid on fantastic auction items here: app.galabid.com/save-room-ma...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our 2026 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem is now open for submissions! Our judges this year are Farah Ghafoor, Fawn Parker, & Patricia Young! Prize: $2000 + Publication! Deadline: Dec. 1, 2026 Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest #poetrycontest #poetry #callforsubmissions #canlit #litmag

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Fiddlehead will be at Printed Matters, Indie Press & Zine Fair at The Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton on Sept. 12! nancy davis viva Halifax, Patrick O'Reilly, Rebecca Salazar & Ysabelle Vautour will be reading work from our special disability issue! (Tentative reading time: 1 pm)

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Issue 308 Disability: The Revolution has finally arrived in our office! Soon it will be zooming around the world to hundreds of mailboxes. Check out the contents of the issue or order a copy here: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/308

A pile of boxes in front of some wooden closet doors

A hand holding a copy of Issue 308 in front of a pile of boxes

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

‼️It's the final weekend to work on your submission to our 2026 Ficition Contest! ‼️ 🐸 Judge: Kirti Bhadresa 🐸 Deadline: September 1, 2026 🐸 Prize: $2000 + publication 🐸 Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic... 🐸 Submit: thefiddlehead.submittable.com/submit

The graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2026 Fiction Contest. The background photo features a picture of a frog on a leaf. The text says let your ideas leap off the page. Enter our 2026 fiction contest. Deadline September 1 2026. Judged by Kristi Bhadresa. $2000 prize plus publication.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We’re celebrating The Fiddlehead’s new special issue, Disability: The Revolution, with a virtual launch! Join us on Zoom for readings from contributors A-E Best, M.L. Campbell, and Shantell Powell! @shanmonster.bsky.social Sept. 24, 2026, 7pm ADT Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com to register!

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Has our 2026 Fiction Contest deadline snuck up on you as much as it has snuck up on us?! The deadline to submit is just one week and a day away! Don't miss out on your chance to win $2000 and be published in The Fiddlehead. Our judge is Kirti Bhadresa. Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Issue 308 (Summer 2026) Disability: The Revolution Special Issue is now on our website! For this special issue, readings of each piece available on the website for you to listen to now! thefiddlehead.ca/issue/308

The cover of Issue 308 which features the artwork "Self-portrait in Bed" by Stephanie Weirathmueller

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We would like to inform our readers that our Summer 2026 issue (No. 308)—Disability: The Revolution normally distributed July 15 is unavoidably delayed. The issue is now expected to ship from our printer August 26, which means that it will be shipped to subscribers and newsstands in early September.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Meet our 2026 Fiction Contest Judge, Kirti Bhadresa! Kirti Bhadresa lives in Calgary, Alberta on Treaty 7 territory. Kirti has fiction and nonfiction writing in many publications including The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, and Room Magazine. Her first book, a short story collection entitled (1/2)

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We're celebrating Disability Pride Month with free shipping on all pre-orders of our special summer issue until this Friday, July 20, 2026! To pre-order visit: thefiddlehead.ca/308/order

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In our latest interview poetry editor Chuqiao Yang asks Melanie Power, winner of our 2025 Poetry Contest, about the creation and construction of her winning poem "Ode to the Bakeapple." thefiddlehead.ca/content/inte...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Stop! Look! Listen! this week to Issue 307 contributor Sonja Boon's reading recommendation of her favourite childhood book: The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery. thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

The cover of The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Our 2026 Fiction Contest is now open for submissions! Our judge this year is Kirti Bhadresa! Prize: $2000 + Publication! Deadline: Sept. 1, 2026 Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic... #callforauthors #submissionsopen #canlit #fiction #callforfiction #litmag

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The virtual launch party for The Fiddlehead's spring issue is only 2 days away! 🪻💛 ⭐Haven't registered yet? Don't forget to email us at thefiddlehead@gmail.com with your name for the Zoom link!⭐

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A big congratulations to our 2025 creative nonfiction contest winner, Shelley Pacholok, for winning GOLD in the One-of-a-Kind storytelling category at the 49th National Magazine Awards, awarded last weekend! Amazing work, Shelly! We are so honoured to have your story in our pages!

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It's time to celebrate The Fiddlehead's spring issue with another virtual launch! Join us on Zoom Saturday, June 13 at 7 pm ADT for readings by Melanie Power, winner of the 2025 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and issue 307 contributors Abhimanyu Acharya, Raoul Fernandes, and Christine Stewart-Nuñez!

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

There are less than tweleve hours to submit to our 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest! Eleven and a half, to be exact! Submit: thefiddlehead.submittable.com/submit/35007...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is not a drill! The deadline for The Fiddlehead's 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest is today! Submit your work by 12:00 PM Pacific Time. The winner will receive $2000 and publication. This year's contest is being judged by Brian Braganza. Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

There are just five more days to submit to our 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest! Deadline: June 1, 2026 Prize: $2000 + Publication thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest As you finish up your submission, we offer you some editing advice from judge Brian Braganza: (1/3)

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There are only 10 days left to submit to our 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest! thefiddlehead.ca/cnf-contest We ask Brian Braganza to offer some advice to writers who are submitting to their very first contest: "It’s always a risk. A risk to submit, a risk to not submit..." (1/2)

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We’re excited to celebrate our spring issue with another virtual launch! Join us for readings from Melanie Power, Abhimanyu Acharya, Raoul Fernandes, and Christine Stewart-Nuñez! ⭐Email thefiddlehead@gmail.com for the Zoom link. ⭐ The event is free and open to all, with ASL interpretation.

Graphic for The Fiddlehead's virtual Spring issue launch. The graphic features the cover of the issue, photos of the readers, and logos of sponsors. It reads: Celebrate the release of our latest issue! Virtual launch party Saturday, June 13, 7 PM ADT via Zoom. Featuring readings by Melanie Power, winner of our 2025 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, plus spring contributors Abhimanyu Acharya, Raoul Fernandes, and Christine Stewart-Nuñez. To register, email thefiddlehead@gmail.com

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Nicole Breit, contributor to Issues 305 and 307, is hosting a free writing workshop on May 13! You can register now at revolutionstorylab.com/storywork-wo...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We're so exited to share that "How Not to Say Good-Bye to Your Professor" by Shelley Pacholok (winner of our 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize and originally published in Issue 305 of The Fiddlehead) has been named a finalist for the National Magazine Awards One-of-a-Kind Sotrytelling prize!

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Stop! Look! and Listen! this week to Issue 307 contributor Jaime Sugiyama’s reading recommendation The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs and listening recommendation Left To Right by pianist Bill Evans. thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

The cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs.

The cover of Issue 307 featuring the painting "Lilas, 2023" by Raymond Martin. On a yellow background, a woman in a white dress holds a lilac branch twice her size in one hand.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Issue 296 (Summer 2023) contributor Grace's new book Be Water will be released by @anvilpress.bsky.social on June 10, 2026. Be Water will include both poems originally published in Issue 296. Congratulations Grace! You can pre-order Be Water now: anvilpress.com/books/be-water

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Stop! Look! Listen! this week to Issue 307 contributor Chris Yurkoshi's @ccyurkoski.bsky.social listening recommendation The World Is On Fire by Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few. thefiddlehead.ca/content/stop...

The album cover for The World Is On Fire by Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Fee

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Our Spring issue is shipping out today to subscribers! Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/307

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that Melanie Power is the winner of our 2025 Poetry Contest and $2 000 prize! Her poem, “Ode to the Bakeapple,” will appear in the upcoming Spring issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 307). thefiddlehead.ca/content/cong...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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...

The graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Poetry Contest. The graphic reads: Turn over a new stanza. Enter our 2025 Poetry Contest. Deadline: December 1 2025. Enter via submittable. $2000 Prize plus publication. Judged by Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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-...

A photo of Adam Tavel next to a picture of the cover of The Ghost-Star King

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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...

The album cover for Recordings from the Åland Islands by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer. The cover is rust read with a light blue image of a wildflower field.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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

Piles of The Fiddlehead on a wooden table

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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...

The album cover of Sally Shapiro's Ready to Live a Lie which features a close up picture of a blue eye with a little blonde hair over it.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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!

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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!

A graphic reading Happy Holidays. Wishing you time to read and time to rest. Our office will be closed from December 24 to January 4 inclusive.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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...

A purple graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Fiction Contest. From top to bottom the graphic says: Spin the tale only you can tell. Enter our 2025 Fiction Contest. Deadline September 2, 2025! Enter via Submittable. Judged by Anuja Varghese. $2000 Prize plus publication. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/contest/fiction or email fiddlehd@unb.ca. In the background is a picture of loop of purple rope and in the lower right corner is a picture of Anuja Varghese.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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...

The cover of Linguaphile: A Language of Love by Julie Sedivy

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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...

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

There is just one week until our Autumn Issue Launch! Don't forget to register by emailing thefiddlehead@gmail.com!

The graphic for The Fiddlehead's Virtual Launch party on Wednesday November 10 at 7 PM AST via Zoom. Featuring readings from Shelley Pacholok, winner of our 2025 Creative Nonfiction Contest plus autumn contributors A E Best and Will Richter. To register, email thefiddlehead@gmail.com

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