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Defining Moments

Stephen Osborne

 He had marched with several thousand anti-Olympic demonstrators. Then it was time to go back and open the restaurant.

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    Letter from Nepal

    Daniel Collins

  • Story

    Beautiful Days

    Sara Cassidy

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    Sightseeing, Anybody?

    Edith Iglauer

Story

White Wedding

Lisa Van de Ven

 The bride's head hunches down, avoiding the stares. Soft-pink fingernails digging deeply into her sister's skin.

Finding

Sentenced

Igor Rybak

Opinion

Role Models and Readers

Alberto Manguel

Story

1963

Vaughan Chapman

In Camera

Markings

Christopher Grabowski

From the Geist Blogs

Reversing Falls, NB

Geist Maps

Che Guevara and the other guy

Patty Osborne

Geist is good for you

Dan Post

Have the Paralympics made YVR a better airport?

Patty Osborne

Evandale ferry, NB

Geist Maps

So you wanna be a freelancer?

Dan Post

Choose your own (theatre) adventure

C.E. Coughlan

Cold Remedy: Frozen River & The Kingston Trio

Patty Osborne

That's Not a Sonnet, This Is a Sonnet. Uh, That's a Spoon.

Daniel Zomparelli

Opinion

Role Models and Readers

Alberto Manguel

 Ruskin's readers have the power to know that there is indeed room for Alice at the Mad Hatter's table.

Building Bohemia

Stephen Henighan

Grey Matters

Mary Schendlinger

Dante in Guantánamo

Alberto Manguel

Postcard Stories

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Lost and Found

Bob Thurber

I lost my pretty mother in a toy store. Entirely my fault. Despite her usual warnings, I wandered, I strayed.

Still Life with Blake

Monica Kidd

Wolf and Man

Jaime Forsythe

The Two-Slice Toaster Move

Jane Stevenson

Reviews

Going Ashore

Mavis Gallant

Renovating Heaven

Andreas Schroeder

Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide

Glenn Kay

Kahn & Engelmann

Hans Eichner

The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess

Andrei Codrescu

The Echoing Years: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Translation from Canada and Ireland

John Ennis, Randall Maggs and Stephanie McKenzie (Eds.) 

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

Roger Deakin

The Complete Manual of Things That Might Kill You: A Guide to Self-Diagnosis for Hypochindriacs

Knock Knock 

Hagiography

Jen Currin

Saudade

Anik See

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Dispatches
  • Caleb and Opa on Holiday: Norbert Ruebsaat
  • Happy Shiny People: Marcus Youssef
  • In Memoriam: Mary Schendlinger
  • Sightseeing, Anybody?: Edith Iglauer
Poetry
  • Jackpine Sonnets: Milton Acorn
Findings
  • Bowhead Butchering: Justin Nobel
  • Report the Suspicious: Thad McIlroy
  • No Paper in Space: Peter Taylor

Acorn-Plantos Award

Daniel Zomparelli

That's Not a Sonnet, This Is a Sonnet. Uh, That's a Spoon.

Daniel Zomparelli

Giving Poetry a Little Room to Breathe

Daniel Zomparelli

Jackpine Commentary

Michal Kozlowski

Canadian Literary Forms

Michal Kozlowski

Contests

The Geist Jackpine Sonnet Contest

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News

Geist Writers and Artists Shortlisted for 2010 BC Book Prizes