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 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
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
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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
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"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...
The winter issue of "The Fiddlehead" resting on the seat of a rocking chair. The seat is covered in black and white pillow ticking. The journal cover shows a vague figure of a person standing in a bus shelter. It appears to be a winter night with snow on the ground and the roof of the shelter.
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.
Almost Spring 39 people found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck near London were likely from Vietnam, said a priest from the rural, rice-growing community where many of the victims are believed to have come. -- Reuters Anna Bui Thi Nhung, 19, posts on her Facebook page and a friend responds, asks how the trip is going. Not good, Nhung writes back. Almost spring, she adds, a Vietnamese phrase meaning close to one's destination. She had meant to find work in a nail salon. The driver told inspectors he was hauling frozen biscuits. In Nghe An Province, a mother is unable to rise from her bed.
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!
Thank you Carl for gracing us with them! We're really excited to have them included in the issue.
A photo of Ariadne Asho
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 @ thefiddlehead@gmail.com
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.
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"
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Piles of The Fiddlehead on a wooden table
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!
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.
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!
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To attend online, email thefiddlehead@gmail.com
with your name for the Zoom link.
The event is free, open to all, and includes ASL interpretation. Funded in part by the Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Culture NB, and UNB.
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
Ariadne Asho grew up on Vancouver Island and now lives in Montreal. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, and her stories were longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize twice, in 2023 and 2025. She is currently working on a collection of short fiction.
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.
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.
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!
We look forward to seeing it in print, Julia!
The cover of Erin Robinsong's Wet Dream
This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/translator Forrest Gander ask us to Stop! Look! Listen! to Erin Robinsong’s Wet Dream:
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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.
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...
The cover of Linguaphile: A Language of Love by Julie Sedivy
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"
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A big congratulations to you, Anca!
Congratulations, Nancy! It’s well-earned recognition!
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
