Geist 6th Annual Post Card ContestGeist Magazine 6th Annual Postcard Story Contest

– Deadline January 15, 2009

Memory and the Valley

David Campion and Sandra Shields

The concrete-and-glass city we know as Vancouver sits in the delta of the Fraser River Valley on vil­lage sites that date back to the time of Mesopotamia.

Poetry

McPoems

Billeh Nickerson

Notes and obser­va­tions from behind the counter of a very pop­u­lar fast-food chain.

Dispatch

Sewing Cabinet

Julie Vandervoort

Cylinders of oxy­gen rolled past like dolls, propped up in wire baskets.

Finding

Be More Controllive

Mary Leah de Zwart

Suggestions from grade ten stu­dents on how the teacher can get the class to pay attention.

Land’s End

Christopher Grabowski

The resource towns along the west coast of Canada — those that have sur­vived, and those that haven’t — tell a story of land’s end, as a place and as a possibility.

Dispatches

24 Sussex

Evelyn Lau

In Praise of Female Athletes Who Were Told No

Brad Cran

Sewing Cabinet

Julie Vandervoort

Three Days in Toronto

C.E. Coughlan

The Tall Women of Toronto

Stephen Osborne

Postcard Stories

Lost and Found

Bob Thurber

Still Life with Blake

Monica Kidd

Wolf and Man

Jaime Forsythe

The Two-Slice Toaster Move

Jane Stevenson

Meditation

Lisa Martin

Spring Training

Mark Paterson

Blogs

Jackpine Sonnet Contest Blog

Michal Kozlowski

Yule Log

Sam Scott and Asa Mori

Reading about the Ocean Ranger

Patty Osborne

Poetry

McPoems

Billeh Nickerson

Habitat

Heather Haley

Into the Fire

Evelyn Lau

Today After Rain

Brad Cran

Did I Sing?

Kate Braid

Hello, Goodbye

Zoë Landale

Opinion

Writing the Nation

Daniel Francis

The Landscape Men

Daniel Francis

Before Lonely Planet

Stephen Henighan

City of Neighbourhoods

George Fetherling

The Big Bad Wolfe

Daniel Francis

Reviews

After the Quake

Michal Kozlowski

Black is Back

Todd Coyne

Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide

Jill Mandrake

Renovating Heaven

Sarah Maitland

Going Ashore

Stephen Osborne

24 Sussex

Evelyn Lau

Picture Harper loung­ing among pas­tel cush­ions, his stiff grey hair tight as a hel­met on his head.

Dispatch

In Praise of Female Athletes Who Were Told No

Brad Cran

 What is the most unaes­thetic site the human eye can contemplate?

Story

The Last Note

Rhonda Waterfall

Thanks to Post-It Notes, Petra and David always knew what to do.

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