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The writing contest whose name is almost as long as the entries! Deadline extended to July 14, 2025.

Announcing the winners of the 19th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest!

First Prize Winner of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest

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First Prize Winner of the 2023 inaugural PolterGeist Writing Contest

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Second Prize Winner of the 2023 inaugural PolterGeist Writing Contest

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Third Prize Winner of the 2023 inaugural PolterGeist Writing Contest

Trick or treat? Fact or fiction? Send us your tall tales, little hauntings and all that dwells in between. Deadline is November 13, 2023.

First Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

Second Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

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Third Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

Announcing the shortlist for the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Announcing the 2024 Geist Short Long-Distance Writing Contest Shortlist!

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Write a story that unfolds in two or more Canadian time zones. Submit by November 12, 2024.

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Second prize winner of the 2020 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.

Third prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.

The 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest Shortlist.

First Prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.

Second prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.

Generate a CanLit premise at canlitgenerator.com, use the premise as the basis for a story, and win big! This contest is now closed.

Announcing the shortlist for the Can't Lit Without It CanLit Short Story Contest!

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Nicotine or the word processor: which is more addictive? CLOSED.

Get all the answers to your slow-burning questions about the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.

A play in one act: Guy Lafleur and Wayne Gretzky stuck in an overturned car—2nd Prize winner of the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.

"Inhale. Exhale through pursed red lips. How do you do? I’m a divorcée. A Canadian divorcée." Prize-winning Tobacco Lit by Jannie Edwards.

Read a poem by Daggar Earnshaw, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, about something to sip on and something to push.

Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

Read a poem by Henry Doyle, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, featuring skinny hardened rat-faced drug addicts.

From Jackpine Sonnets, published by Steel Rail Educational Publishing in 1977.

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Second prize winner of the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.