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.

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.

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We have a new review to share for In Search of Puffins thanks to Chris Benjamin at The Fiddlehead.

You can read the entire review by visiting their website thefiddlehead.ca/content/chri...

A photo of several damp fiddleheads (tightly curled young fern fronds) with brown "paper" still on them.

It's one of my favorite times of the year: fiddlehead season! (And I get a second fiddlehead season of a different kind later this year when my story "Revolute" comes out in @fiddlehd.bsky.social's "Disability: The Revolution!" issue.)

The cover of Be Water by Grace

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

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.

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

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.

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Thank you for letting us know. We are aware of an increase in scams organizations pretending to be us. Unfortunately, we are not aware of any way to prevent this from continuing to occur.

Featuring Lilas (2023) by Raymond Martin on the cover.

Our Spring issue is shipping out today to subscribers!

Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/307

A huge thank you to everyone who entered our Poetry Contest, and congratulations to all our finalists! We’re also grateful to our judges, Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.

Melanie Power is a Montreal-based poet from St. John’s. Her debut, Full Moon of Afraid and Craving, was published in 2022 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in oral history and creative writing at Concordia University.

Text on a yellow background “The Fiddlehead proudly announces our 2025 Poetry Contest winner Melanie Power for ‘Ode to the Bakeapple.’ Read the winning poem in Issue 307. Nest to the text is a headshot of Melanie Power wearing a yellow jacket with a red bandana around her neck.

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).

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This SUCKS! Thank you to Steve for bring this to our attention. Please be safe from journal scams. They have been around for years.

FYI, we will never ask you to pay to publish your work!

If you are not sure if a site is ours or not, feel free to contact us at fiddhd@unb.ca

15 Canadian books to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility | CBC Books March 31 is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. To celebrate, CBC Books is sharing a list of Canadian authors who identify as two-spirit, transgender or non-binary.

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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.

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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 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

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
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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.)

Making a Sound Like Darkness If it weren't immodest, I'd say modesty's one of the few things left about me that I can almost admire, still, except it's hardly a thing worth caring one way or another about, to have been who one is. Look at the trees, not trying at all to be anyone's idea of flourishing without an instinct to make what can't be held holdable: the struggling first; the bit of hush, just after; then the longer shadows getting cast by everything I remember wanting.

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!

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

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 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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Magazine Stand :: The Fiddlehead - Winter 2026 The Fiddlehead Winter 2026 features creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry exploring crisis, myth, risk, luck, debt, and human fracture.

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.

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"I named you after a small brown bird
tittering in the hedge, guarding
its speckled eggs."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
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