If you’re in the writing life, this page is for you!
The Writer’s Toolbox is put together by the editors of Geist magazine, a literary and cultural quarterly published since 1990. We are seasoned writers, editors and teachers of writing to students of all ages.

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SHORT LONG-DISTANCE WRITING CONTEST


Send us a short story
where the action takes place in at least two time zones within Canada.

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Who did what? If you are writing about people, put them in the sentence.

 

The abbreviation “CBC” is not an acronym. Really.
Your prose will flow more smoothly if you narrate things in the order in which they happened.

Sentences can be large, they can contain multitudes—but not literary litter.

 

 

When did we stop living in a place and start being “based” there, as in “Jane Geist, based in Toronto”?

 

Luanne Armstrong interviews Mary Schendlinger on: types of editing, from developmental, structural, to copyediting; writing Geist buys; finding an editor; the term “creative non-fiction.”
Stop, look and listen before you use the verb to see.