the weird and wonderful from the world of words.

Geist was founded in 1990. The Geist Foundation is a non-profit society incorporated in B.C.

Geist is published four times a year by The Geist Foundation.

Geist magazine began as a 40-page newsprint publication in the living room of founders Stephen Osborne and Mary Schendlinger in 1990. It was established to be articulate, humorous and identifiably Canadian. As a literary magazine of ideas and culture, Geist’s artistic mission is primarily focused on the art and politics of narrative, with its cultural focus being “North of America.” We publish the best that we can find of narrative essays (fiction and non-fiction), poetry, reviews, photography, drawings, comix, puzzles and little-known facts—with a special interest in fresh interactions between text and image. Our mandate is to find and encourage a wide audience for new and established Canadian writers and artists of merit. 

Over the course of our nearly 30-year history, we have published the work of more than 1,500 emerging and established writers and artists from across the country, many of whom were published for the first time in the pages of Geist.

Geist
prints and distributes 6,000 copies quarterly to the largest readership ever acquired by a literary magazine in Canada (some 52,000 readers a year). Our readership extends from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to Nunavut, with concentrations in the Lower Mainland of BC and greater Toronto.

OUR TEAM

TOKE ADEJOYE

MANAGING DIRECTOR

EMMA CLEARY

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

SYLVIA TRAN

MANAGING EDITOR

MICHAL KOZLOWSKI

LAYOUT AND DESIGN

OUR AWARDS
2020

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS

HONOURABLE MENTION: “MARRIAGE POEMS” BY MATSUKI
2019

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS

SILVER MEDAL FOR COLUMN: “CLOWNS, CAKES, CANOES: THIS IS CANADA?” BY LISA BIRD-WILSON.
2017

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS

WINNER FOR PHOTOJOURNALISM AND PHOTO ESSAY: “SOUTH OF BUCK CREEK” BY TERENCE BYRNES
2019

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS

COLUMN
2015

WRITERS’ TRUST MCCLELLAND AND STEWART JOURNEY PRIZE

WINNER: “THE WISE BABY” BY DEIRDRE DORE
2013

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS

WINNER FOR FICTION: “THE SPEED OF RUST, OR, HE MARRIES” BY KAREN CONNELLY
2013

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

FINALIST FOR MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR (BC & YUKON)
2011

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

WINNER, PROFILE CATEGORY: “EYE FOR DETAIL (EDITH IGLAUER) BY ANNABEL LYON
2010

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

WINNER, MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR (BC & YUKON)
2009

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

FINALIST, MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR (BC & YUKON)
2007

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

FINALIST, MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR (BC & YUKON)
2002

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

FINALIST, MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR (BC & YUKON)
2001

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

WINNER, MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR (BC & YUKON)
1996

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

WINNER, ARTS, CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY: “LIVES OF THE POETS” BY PATRICK LANE
1995

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

WINNER, REGULAR COLUMN CATEGORY: STEPHEN OSBORNE
1994

WESTERN MAGAZINE AWARDS

HUMAN EXPERIENCE CATEGORY: “A SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION” BY LAURIE EDWARDS.
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Geist is a member of Magazines Canada and the B.C. Association of Magazine Publishers. Indexed in the Canadian Literary Periodicals Index and available on microfilm from University Microfilms Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan USA.

The Geist Foundation receives assistance from private donors, the Canada Council, the B.C. Arts Council, the B.C. Gaming Branch and the City of Vancouver. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Canada Periodical Fund.

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