Welcome to The Fiddlehead’s Summer Creative Nonfiction issue!
Summer is a time to enjoy the great outdoors, but make some time in your schedule to enjoy an extra large helping of the best creative nonfiction The Fiddlehead could find! Inside this collection of 23 pieces, readers will find a diverse series of forms, including flash, hermit crab, lyric, collage, and diptych essays, along with personal narratives, a conversation between two nonfiction writers, and more traditional forms.
The issue features the winner of the Creative Nonfiction Collective’s 2025 contest, Karen E. Moore’s “Our Reflection in Flames.” The contest judge Danny Ramadan describes this piece as “a genre-bending essay on loss, grief, sorrow, and the aftermath of an intense trauma.” Other writers featured include Brian Braganza, Harper Hugo-Darling, Line Dufour, Ariel Gordon, Kevin Kellman, Frances Peck, and many more!
Stay tuned to The Fiddlehead website for details about a hybrid launch in September, as they continue to celebrate 80 years of publication!
Cover art: S’more Please by Terry Price.
