Riddle Fence

04/14/2025

Call for Expressions of Interest -- Join the Riddle Fence Board of Directors!

We're currently seeking 2-3 new Board members. Come help shape the future of your favourite magazine and local arts organization! Deadline is May 5. Read all the details here:

https://riddlefence.com/news-article/call-for-expressions-of-interest-join-the-riddle-fence-board-of-directors/

04/03/2025

The 2025 Riddle Fence Contests are now officially OPEN! With a grand prize of $1000 in all categories, plus publication in Issue 56, you can't afford NOT to submit! New this year, we have three Special Guest Judges: Saeed Teebi (Fiction), Hannah Green (Poetry), and Lucas Morneau (Visual Art). Find all the details and entry information here: https://riddlefence.com/submit/submit-contests/

02/26/2025

Riddle Fence has not been active on Twitter for over a year, but we have now officially left that platform. You can find us best on Instagram, where we are very active, and now also on Bluesky.

02/01/2025

Our FREE submission window is nowwwww OPEN -- from now until March 31, submit your work for free to Riddle Fence. All the details at www.riddlefence.com or on our Submittable. PLUS: POETRY AND FICTION ONLY --- IT'S A THEMED CALL!

01/24/2025

We're on Bluesky! Follow us: .bsky.social

12/30/2024

We're almost there! Just two days left to donate to our December Holiday Fundraiser! Help us reach our goal -- every $100 donation comes with a complementary subscription, for you or for you to give as a gift to anyone on the planet!

Seasons Greetings from Riddle Fence! My name is Elisabeth de Ma… Elisabeth de Mariaffi needs your support for 'Tis the Season -- A Riddle Fence Fundraiser

12/30/2024

Congratulations to Riddle Fence Debuts authors May Newhook and Tia McLennan whose poetry collections made this great Best of 2024 list! (and thank you to Rob McLennan for all his work in Canadian Poetry!)

Once more, I offer my annual list of the seemingly-arbitrary “worth repeating” (given ‘best’ is such an inconclusive, imprecise designation)...

12/13/2024

Folk Society is holding a big, beautiful one-day holiday sale and it's TODAY! 2-6 pm -- all the info below!
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ai35G75xQ/

12/06/2024

WOW! In just three days, we're already almost 1/4 of the way to our $5000 goal! Thank you so much to our generous donors -- and if you haven't donated yet, jump in! No amount is too small to be helpful to us. Donors will be listed on a special thank-you page in our spring issue.

Think of it this way: $50 pays for a Poem -- $100 Sponsors a Short Story. (And if you have the means, $500 underwrites a Visiting Writer!) With your help, we can keep making the best arts and culture magazine and community programming in the province

Seasons Greetings from Riddle Fence! My name is Elisabeth de Ma… Elisabeth de Mariaffi needs your support for 'Tis the Season -- A Riddle Fence Fundraiser

12/03/2024

Good Giving Tuesday Morning! This time last year, Riddle Fence was in a really tight place -- we didn't know if we'd make it to another issue. But this community right here really pulled up and saved us. A year later, we've got our feet on the ground and it's no longer all-hands-on-deck. But.... we still need some hands, and some support, every year. We've launched a holiday fundraiser that's simple to join: Sponsor a Poem for only $50, Sponsor a Short Story for $100. Help us publish the best this province has to offer, shoulder to shoulder with world class work from... well, the rest of the world! BONUS: For every $100 you donate to Riddle Fence, we'll give you a free subscription, either for you or for you to give as a gift to someone else. Find our fundraiser here, and Happy December!

Seasons Greetings from Riddle Fence! My name is Elisabeth de Ma… Elisabeth de Mariaffi needs your support for 'Tis the Season -- A Riddle Fence Fundraiser

11/06/2024

Coming soooooon! Get your holiday shopping done at the Riddle Fence Holiday Pop-Up Store. We'll be OPEN EVERY DAY from November 16-23, with great books by Newfoundland authors, from publishers here and away. And of course, we've also got beautiful tote bags, magazines, and gift subscriptions! We can't wait to see you at 100 Duckworth St.

09/28/2024

TOTES! We've got TOTES! A perfect book bag or farmers market tote -- or just a bag to carry around all your favourite issues of Riddle Fence! Printed both sides; art by Bethany Mackenzie and Mollie Cronin. Come get 'em today and every Saturday at 100 Duckworth St. or on our online shop -- or! Toronto friends! this Sunday at Word on the Street! Look for Riddle Fence in the Magazines Canada tent.