The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Short Fiction Contest is open!
$2,000 CAD for Best Short Fiction!
Good luck to all entrants. This year’s contest deadline is September 1, 2025 (postmarked for mailed entries and 11:59 pm Pacific Time for submittable entries).
Our judge this year is Anuja Varghese.
Anuja Varghese (she/her) is an award-winning writer based in Hamilton, ON. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines and anthologies, and she is the Fiction Editor at the Ex-Puritan.