Fiddlehead Poetry Contributors Past & Present
A selection of poets whose work has appeared in The Fiddlehead in recent years.
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@phillipcrymble.bsky.social
@thisisannick.bsky.social
Poet Latest: Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024) Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) #GGBooks2022 Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, five from hem, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos annickmacaskill.com
@jaswinderbolina.bsky.social
Writer | www.jaswinderbolina.com Books @ Copper Canyon, McSweeney’s, Omnidawn… | Poems @ Poetry, The New Yorker, Narrative… | Essays @ The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Shenandoah… Posts on writing, civil disobedience, Cubs…
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends NYRB, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at the University of Tulsa; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
@whatisapoem.bsky.social
Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
@cowenwriter.bsky.social
Poet, writer, maker of things. Born and raised Vancouverite who now makes her home in Edmonton. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, dark music and black coffee.
@pantsmclee.bsky.social
Co-editor of SHARP NOTIONS (2023) PRE-ORDER: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Sharp-Notions. Author of WHAT HURTS GOING DOWN, THE AGE and DEAD GIRLS. Corgi fanatic. Always stitching.
@sharonberg.bsky.social
Poetry: 3 books/ 3 chapbooks; Short Fiction: 1; CNF: 1 FN history 2020 IPPY Nonfiction Award/ Finalist: 2022 International Book Awards Resident Interviewer at The tEmz Review (London, ON, Canada) https://sharonbergauthor.wixsite.com/my-site #fiction #poet
@katesutherland.bsky.social
Law prof, poet, collage artist. https://linktr.ee/poetryartmagic
@sjonespoet.bsky.social
Earth scientist. Poet. Editor. Black Canadian & white settler. 🪨🌊 Geology, Arctic, carbon cycle, hydrology, geohumanities. Greyhound enthusiast. ✍🏼 Attic Rain, NeWest Press. Likes jokes. English, rusty French, learning Suomi 🕸 https://linktr.ee/JonesYYC
@kevinspenst.bsky.social
Author, poet, chapbook-maker, teacher, lover of the spectrums, and quite often a person on a bicycle. New chapbook with Anstruther Press out in 2025!
@trinyfinlay.bsky.social
Queer & genderfluid settler poet & writer 🏳️🌈 Prof at UNB Fredericton (English & Creative Writing)📚Author of Myself A Paperclip etc. she/they 🫖🧶🌊
@jennhoule.bsky.social
Award-winning, Maritime Canadian author (poetry, children's lit, nonfic), feminist, mother, skygazer, amateur nature photographer. Books. Myth. Symbolism. Joy in spite and joy because. jenniferhoule.com https://substack.com/@jenniferhoule
@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) website: janeshi.org
@meghankempgee.bsky.social
Teacher | Writer (she/her) Contested Strip: ONE MORE YEAR The Animal in the Room What I Meant to Ask Things to Buy in New Brunswick More The Bones and Eggs and Beets
@sadiqademeijer.bsky.social
writer of alfabet/alphabet (Palimpsest 2020), The Outer Wards (Vehicule 2020), Leaving Howe Island (Oolichan 2013), Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston (she/her) sadiqademeijer.com
@paradiselaust.bsky.social
Author: THIS ELEGANCE (Spring 2026), TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Wannabe Art Historian | He/Him https://linktr.ee/DerrickAustin
@ianletourneau.bsky.social
Poet (Metadata from a Changing Climate, out May 2025 from Gaspereau Press). Managing Editor of The Fiddlehead and SCL. Publisher of poetry chapbooks at Emergency Flash Mob Press. Bibliographer. Fredericton, NB.
@rsalazar.bsky.social
haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
@ambrosealbert.bsky.social
he/him | il * transmasc poet & community organizer * bec & call w/ Nightwood Editions 2018 * former Fredericton poet laureate * 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
@bookninja.bsky.social
Poet. 10 books. Neuromancer. Dog person. Recovering Bookninja. Habitual founder of things. Future partisan guerrilla. https://linktr.ee/georgemurray
@hollay.bsky.social
Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges. Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. 📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories). Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. Host of 105.5 HITS FM Bookclub. NBN host. www.hollayghadery.com
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Author of 8 books of fiction and poetry. Recent: The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024); The Death Poems (Salt, 2023). Shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, and Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
@sheribenning.bsky.social
Writer | Field Requiem (Carcanet), The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet), et al. | Words in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al. https://www.sheribenning.com/
@katerilanthier.bsky.social
Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
@adelebarclay.bsky.social
writer, editor, creative writing instructor | she/they | author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You (Nightwood, '16) & Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood '19) working on: cnf, fiction, poetry
@derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
Poet, author, editor, literary advocate; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; former Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Treaty 7 territory, Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him. online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
@katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Outdoor swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
@akkabah.bsky.social
Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest. they/them
@conyerclayton.bsky.social
Writer from Louisville, KY in Canada | Latest 📚 But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. | 3rd book coming 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | Senior Editor @augursociety.bsky.social | conyerclayton.com | they/them
@joriegraham.bsky.social
Resilience requires Imagination. Resistance requires Imagination. Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
@shanerhodes.bsky.social
@kgrubisic.bsky.social
Writer, poet, literary translator. Sweet of tooth and hard of head. Resident of a beautiful planet. She/her. 📍Tio'tia:ke/Montréal.
@dalockhart.bsky.social
Writer. Publisher. Lenape. Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Author of North of Middle Island (Kegedonce Press, 2023) & Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press, 2025). he/him
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
@puneetdutt.bsky.social
Poetry Editor @TheFiddlehead. Poet, too. Best-of-The-Net Nominee, Better Monsters (Mansfield Press) Founding Board Director @canthius. puneetdutt.com Toronto, ON & Jersey City, NJ linktr.ee/puneetdutt
@aliceburdick.bsky.social
Nova Scotian Poet & essayist & cookbook author. Out now: Ox Lost, Snow Deep, Fall 2024, a feed dog book/Anvil Press. Poetry lifer.
@helendestroy.bsky.social
Witch, bitch, and full-time disaster. Trans, genderqueer, bisexual, dyke poet. Member of the poetry collective VII www.helen-robertson.com
@teresempierre.bsky.social
Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur Society. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, FIYAH, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her. www.teresemasonpierre.com Author of MYTH, House of Anansi, 2025 https://houseofanansi.com/products/myth
@neilsurkan.bsky.social
NEW: DIE WORKBOOK (The Blasted Tree) Ruin | Unbecoming | Their Queer Tenderness | On High | Super, Natural neilsurkan.com
@domenicahope.bsky.social
Writer, loud talker, perky terror | Poetry: GOOD WANT (Coach House Books, 2024) ❤️🔥 + ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SIRENS (2019) 🌊
@isabellawangbc.bsky.social
NOVEMBER, NOVEMBER (Nightwood fall 2025) | PEBBLE SWING (Nightwood 2021) 👇| CHOREOGRAPHY OF FORGETTING (in-progress) | Director Revise Revision St. | MA SFU Sociology | https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/IBellaShopCo | she/they/he
@sharonmccartney.bsky.social
California grown. Vancouver Island now. Writer. Only disconnect.
@tammyarmstrong.bsky.social
Poems/fictions. * Currently busy with animals, forests, and folklore * Barnes and Noble Discover Prize Finalist * PEARLY EVERLASTING out with HarperCollins * Represented by Rachel Letofsky-CookeMcDermid .
@marktruscott.bsky.social
(He/him) Three poetry books. Winner of the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize. Recent poems in CAROUSEL, Dialogist, the Fiddlehead, Hampden-Sydney Review, etc. New chapbook, Rain. Hello. marktruscott.ca
@ehjchang.bsky.social
poet, author and co-founder of Riverbed BLOOD BELIES (Wolsak & Wynn) https://ehjchang.com // https://riverbedreads.ca
@rosebudbenoni.bsky.social
🛸| Winner of the Alice James Award, IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY (2021) | 20 Atomic Sonnets (2020) | turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (2019) | @TSP_Writing
@lisarichter.bsky.social
Poet, writer, and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada (she/her). Author of Nautilus and Bone (2020), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and Closer to Where We Began (2017). www.lisarichter.org
@chrisbanks6625.bsky.social
I’m a Canadian poet with seven collections of poems, most recently Alternator from Nightwood Editions (Fall 2023). My first collection, Bonfires, was awarded the CAA Award for poetry. I dabble in Sci-fi. https://linktr.ee/royal.banksy
@garybarwin.bsky.social
writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin “There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
@jasonguriel.bsky.social
Writer. The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, On Browsing, Forgotten Work, et al. Bylines in The Atlantic, Air Mail, Slate, The Walrus, et al. Comic-strip in CNQ.
@johnwallbarger.bsky.social
Poet, editor, translator. He/him. Vermont. johnwallbarger.com The Elephant of Silence (essays on poetics & film, LSU Press, 2024) Contract editor, Frontenac House Lecturer, Dartmouth
@rheatregebov.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
@itsakirby.bsky.social
SHE #KFB kirbyshe.com FAIRY New & Earlier Works: 1985-2025 (Spring 2027) POETRY IS QUEER @palimpsestpress.bsky.social THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF #PermanentSleep Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
@rsitoski.bsky.social
Poet (day job). Songwriter (other day job). Artistic Director of the Words Aloud Poetry Series (other other day job). Marketing and Publications Coordinator of Kegedonce Press (other other other day job). rsitoski.com
@juliemannell.bsky.social
Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. Professor. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
@manahil.bsky.social
Writer, artist, editor, etc. Author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024) www.manahilbandukwala.com
@roblucastaylor.bsky.social
Poet. Tacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford, BC. http://roblucastaylor.com/
@sarahwolfson.bsky.social
Poet. Teaching Artist. A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). UmichWriters MFA. Montreal & Vermont. wordplay. cuttlefish. writing pedagogy. ferns.
@jestintzi.bsky.social
Cult-classic queer and Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me JES. [They/She] 📚: BAD HOUSES (stories), THE CHILDREN OF GULGA-KRÜ (mini-comic), MY VOLCANO (novel), VANISHING MONUMENTS (novel), JUNEBAT (poems), & various chapbooks. linktr.ee/jestintzi
@paulvermeersch.bsky.social
Human poet/artist. New book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press this Sept. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
@robmclennan.bsky.social
poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc. out now: On Beauty: stories, (University of Alberta Press) https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
It’s a two-book year! IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf coming in April. PAPER CROWN: Poems coming in August. https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
@toluini.bsky.social
Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). New Collection: UNRAVEL (McClelland & Stewart, 2025). Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
@fiddlehd.bsky.social
The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal. Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025! https://thefiddlehead.ca
@phillipcrymble.bsky.social
poet | phd | umichwriters alum | fiddlehead poetry editor | record collector | author of not even laughter | one-armed bandit | he/him