Geist

Geist is the Canadian magazine of ideas and culture—fact + fiction, photography and comix, essays, reviews, and the weird and wonderful from the world of words.

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Issue 131 is out now, marking 35 years of Geist 🔮

Notes & Dispatches from ANDREW UNGER, ADÈLE BARCLAY, KATHERINE J BARRETT, WILLIAM BESSAI-SAUL + OWEN TORREY
Feature essays from ERIKA THORKELSON + KASIA VAN SCHAIK
Cover art by ALENA WEBBER
& much more!

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Geist is 35! Celebrate with Geist and our friends EVENT + subTerrain. Plus, the official launch of Geist 131.
Free to attend, space limited. RSVP: https://t.co/9FPbxaCU8Q

Art:
Discman by Nora Kelly
Confetti bg by Jia 何家嘉 (justjiaart)

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A few captures from our 129 + 130 Issue Launch at Upstart & Crow, November 27, 2025.

1. Ginger Ngo, featured reader
2. The room!
3. Gráinne Downey, featured reader
4. Judy LeBlanc, featured reader

Until next time!
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A little peek at our last launch party!

Thank you to Upstart & Crow for hosting us at your magical bookshop this past November 27. Geist celebrated the launch of 129 and 130, our Spring and Fall 2025 issues.

More pictures to come!

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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 20th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest!

Many thanks to all those who entered and congratulations to the winners!

Read the winning entries in Geist 131, out December 2025.

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🌟 Announcing the 20th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest Shortlist 🌟

Thanks to the more than 100 writers who sent in stories! We had fun reading them :)

A big congratulations to the shortlisted authors! 🎈 Stay tuned—winners announced soon.

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Judy LeBlanc is a fiction and non-fiction writer. She’s the author of The Promise of Water, The Broken Heart of Winter, and a memoir, Permission to Land.
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Judy is a reader at our launch party tomorrow at Upstart & Crow! Read her essay "Road Trip with Wind Chill" in Geist 130.

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Gráinne Downey is an Irish-Canadian writer and artist from Vancouver. She is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC and spends much of her time looking out to sea.
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Gráinne wrote "Some Ribs," published in Geist 130. See her read this Thursday at Upstart & Crow!

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Ginger Ngo is a picture book author-illustrator based in Vancouver, BC. She is a proud immigrant from the Philippines with lots of stories to tell.
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Ginger wrote the dispatch "Strathcona" published in Geist 129. See her read at our launch party this Thursday at Upstart & Crow!

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Next week! Join us for The Double Launch Party: Celebrating Geist 129 & 130!

Readings: Gráinne Downey, Judy LeBlanc & Ginger Ngo. Plus, an open mic!

Free to attend, space ltd. Register: https://t.co/awYs68Qq3y

Thanks to:
Upstart & Crow bookstore
@33Acres
Arrowleaf Cellars

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Happy Pub Day to Biblioasis + the writers in the Best Canadian series!

Special congrats to Geist authors!

Nofel, “In Arabic” (Geist 127, poetry)
Evelyn Lau, “Cursing, Flailing” (Geist 126, poetry)
Hollie Adams, “A Partial List of Inconvenient Truths” (Geist 127, essay)

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Submissions close tonight! Send us your best, weirdest, most beloved works of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, comics, art, and photography. We strongly encourage more non-fiction submissions! 🍂

Read our full guidelines and find the link to submit at https://t.co/80xKVSbzVm

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One more week to submit your best work to Geist! We are open across categories and especially encourage more NON-FICTION submissions. Deadline: November 14, 2025 🌊

Visit our full submission guidelines for more info at https://t.co/80xKVSbzVm

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🎉 Join Geist on November 27 to celebrate issue 129 + 130 with a double launch party! 🌸
Readings by Gráinne Downey, Judy LeBlanc & Ginger Ngo.

Plus, an open mic!

This event is free to attend, though please register (and find details) here: https://t.co/awYs68Qq3y

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Geist welcomes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and comics submissions, as well as art & photography. This is our final submission window of 2025 – send us your best work!

Deadline: Nov 14, 2025 at 11:59 pm PT 🌚

Please read our submission guidelines at https://t.co/80xKVSbzVm

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Geist 130 is out now! 💎

Notes & Dispatches from JORDAN KAWCHUK, GRAINNE DOWNEY, and JOSE TEODORO; Poetry by DENISE DA COSTA; Fiction by GRACE BOWNESS; Essays from JUDY LEBLANC and DANIEL ALLEN COX ...and much more!

Cover art by TONIA NNEJI

Buy here: https://t.co/rBMRDPftWw

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"At age ten, my bizarre mishmash of folklore, pop culture and Tolkien became something like religion to me, aided by a string of Christmases in which Santa granted my increasingly bizarre requests." –Sadie McCarney, "Christmas in Lothlórien" Geist 128

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This Saturday. Spots are limited!

Are you a writer wanting to connect your work to the history of this land? Or an educator looking for guidance on how to approach Truth and Reconciliation? This workshop is designed to support you.

Register at https://t.co/AqwndA1KMF.

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"We followed the previous owner’s instructions and fed the six goats a small amount of grain, divided equally between six red buckets hanging from the fence. Goats love grain, and soon the goats loved us." –Madeleine Pelletier, "Dummies Raising Goats" #128 https://t.co/nizt5O9DDj