Literary Magazines :: NewPages Guide
The Fiddlehead
Campus House, 11 Garland Ct.
PO Box 4400, University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3
Phone: (506) 453-3501
E-mail: fiddlehd <at> unb <dot> ca
Simultaneous submissions: yes, but must be informed that is simultaneous and immediately informed if accepted elsewhere
Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 3-6 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website)
ISSN: 015-0630 Founded: 1945 Issues per year: 4
Distributors: Magazines Canada; Monahan Agency Copy price: $10 for fall, winter, spring; $15 for summer Average pages: 128 for fall, winter, spring; 186 for summer Sample price (postpaid): $13 to $18 Subscription 1 year: $30 (Cdn) in Canada; $36 (US) International (see website for other rates)
Publisher’s description: The Fiddlehead, published 4 times a year, is Atlantic Canada's international literary journal. Since 1945 it has surprised and delighted readers in Canada and across the world with its stories, poems, book reviews, and occasional essays. Many now well-known writers, such as Anne Compton, Alistair MacLeod, and Tom Wayman, found an early and enthusiastic welcome in The Fiddlehead. In alternating years the summer issue is devoted entirely to either poetry or fiction; these special, extended issues measure the pulse of literary writing. As well The Fiddlehead holds an annual writing contest in two categories, short fiction and poetry. The contest closes December 1st and the winning entries are published in the spring issue. "The Fiddlehead, a mix of common sense and magic . . . the magazine that has itself sustained so many writers by lending both mouth and ear," says Don McKay, the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian winner.
Recent issues:
242 (Winter 2010) - The Fiddlehead turns sixty-five in 2010. The celebration begins with the winter issue (242), which features poetry from Marvin Bell, Emily Carr, Jeffery Donaldson, Miranda Hill, and Peggy Shumaker among others. You can also enjoy new fiction from Julie Curwin, Sheila McClarty, Lori McNulty, Carey Rudisill, and Deborah-Anne Tunney. And as usual there are reviews of recent Canadian literary works such as George Elliott Clarke’s I & I. The cover showcases Raymond Martin’s painting, “Tournesols cerf-volants.”
241 (Autumn 2009) features a cornucopia of poems, short stories, and book reviews. There are poems from Brian Burke, Norman Dubie, Stephanie Gehring, and Cynthia Hogue among others and stories by Renée Hartleib, Wasela Hiyate, Jennifer Hedges, Michael Kissinger, and Nicholas Ruddock. Warren Heiti reflects on the relation between “Sickness, Catharsis, and the City inside the Skin” in his review of Tim Lilburn’s Orphic Politics. The cover art is from a painting by Tom Forrestall.