The Short Long-Distance Writing Contest

The Short Long-Distance Contest is NOW CLOSED. Watch this space for the winning entries, coming Winter 2008.


First Prize: $250 | Second Prize: $150 | Third Prize: $100
(more than one prize per category may be awarded)
Honourable Mentions: Swell Geist gifts

Send us a short story that takes place in at least two time zones within Canada. (Entries will be accepted from anywhere in the world.)

Maximum length: 500 words, fiction or non-fiction.

Winning entries will be published in Geist and at geist.com
Honourable mentions will be published at geist.com
Selected stories will be posted at thetyee.ca

Submit your entry double spaced, in at least 11-point type with one-inch margins.

Please name your file with your own name as follows: last name - first name - story title. For example:

Doe-Jane-StoryName.doc or Doe-John-StoryName.pdf

File formats: use any of the following: doc, rtf, pdf or odf.

We also accept snail mail entries. Click here for more info.

Entry Fee: $20 CAD for the first entry (includes one-year subscription or subscription extension), $5 CAD for each additional entry. If you are already a Geist subscriber, you can donate your complimentary subscription to a Canadian public library or give it as a gift to a friend. Anyone—no matter where you live!—is eligible to enter.

Entry deadline: midnight June 1, 2008 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Questions? Call 1-888-434-7834 or email geist@geist.com