The Fiddlehead

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The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!

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Judith Wright has retired to full-time writing after twenty years as a public health epidemiologist and two pandemics. She writes nonfiction for Prairies North and other magazines, has published one novel, The Magpie Summer (Polestar Press) and one nonfiction book, Dog-wise: What We Learn from Dogs.

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A huge thank you to everyone who entered our Creative Nonfiction Contest, and congratulations to all our finalists! We’re also grateful to our judge, Brain Braganza.

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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 findings will help address important gaps in our understanding of artists' careers and may inform future discussions about issues such as income security, Employment Insurance, retirement planning, and other supports for artists.

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Our The Fiddlehead Special Issue, Disability: The Revolution, Virtual Launch is tonight! We hope you will join us online at 7:00 ADT to hear from three contributors to the issue (A-E Best, M.L. Campbell, and Shantell Powell) Email [email protected] for the Zoom link!

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I have a live reading for the online launch of Fiddlehead’s newest edition on the 24th. I’ll be reading the beginning of my Arctic horror story “The Old Woman Who Became a Bear” at 7 pm ADT. If anyone would like to virtually attend, they can email [email protected] to register.

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