Noah Sparrow

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Noah Sparrow is a Montreal-Tiohtià:ke based writer.

His chapbook SPECTACLE/SPECTATOR is now out with above/ground press, and another, Here I am Dying at an Average Pace, is forthcoming with Cactus Press in 2026. 

He recently won the Gabriel Safdie Poetry Prize was a finalist for the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. His (retired) manuscript-in-progress was shortlisted the 2025 International Metatron Poetry Prize. He served as the previous Co-Editor-In-Chief for Soliloquies Anthology.

You can read more of his poetry in Scrivener Creative Review, LBRNTH, and elsewhere; or his prose in The Fiddlehead. 

HIGHLIGHTED WORK

SPECTACLE/SPECTATOR, chapbook, above/ground press

January 22nd, 2026

Montreal International Poetry Prize, “wooden men: on march”

October 3, 2024

The Fiddlehead Issue 300 (Summer Fiction), “Water”

August 1, 2024

POETRY

MORE TO COME…

touch the donkey

“ASL Class”, “DRAKE IS NOT THE CURE ALL”, “COSTAR JANUARY 28TH”

Expected October 2026

Periodicities

“ME IN THE MEDIA”, “Meditations During My Hair Emergency”

January 6th, 2026

Bitter Magazine

“This is How I Got Rid of My Stutter”, “Grey-Denialist”, “If the Ocean is in Your Mouth”

October 15th, 2025

Ivy Literary

“Before Autoroute 20”, “Scarecrow Chorus”

December 10th, 2025

Slug Magazine

“turkish cigarettes”, “BESIDE THE BLACK SEA”

June 1st, 2025

Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024

“wooden men: on march”

October 3rd, 2024

Scrivener Creative Review

“wooden men take on music“

June 1st 2025

The Veg

“The Moon is the Absence of Duty Free”

November 27th, 2024

The Encore Poetry Project,

“The Ocean is My Tongue”

November 14th, 2024

The Broadkill Review

“Cruising in the 21st Century”, “re: carpenter ants”

October 24th, 2024

LBRNTH

“peach rings”

August 14th, 2024

NiftyLit

“blue rocket”

March 29th, 2024

Soliloquies Anthology

“on wednesday evening i was thinking about marrying you”

February 2nd, 2024

FICTION

The Pit

“Ryan on Instagram”

FORTHCOMING

The Fiddlehead

“Water”

August 1st, 2024

Soliloquies Anthology

“Watermelon”

May 5th, 2023

OTHER

The Fiddlehead

Stop! Look! Listen! Noah Sparrow’s Reading Recommendation

Book Review

September 10th, 2024

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

“Fighting back, pushing forward: Ontario students are saying no to education cuts”

Political Op-Ed

April 4th, 2019

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