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kerry doyle
Ghosting

Third Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

2023 Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest Winners

Announcing the winners for the 2023 Postcard Story Contest!

2023 Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest Shortlist

Announcing the shortlisted entrants for the 2023 Postcard Story Contest!

CLAYTON LONGSTAFF
Genuine Person

Second Prize Winner of the 17th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

PolterGeist Writing Contest

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Writing Contests Update

Quick update for folks who have entered our writing contests.

Wolf and Man

Runner-up in the 5th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

Winners of the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest

Geist is pleased to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest. Many thanks to all those who entered!

Daggar Earnshaw
Wine and Doorbells

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.

Jared Hazzard
Yellow Pants

Honourable mention in the 2009 Fortune Cookie Contest.

JEROME STUEART
Who Loves the Vegas Minotaur?

Third Prize Winner of the 17th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

Lisa Van de Ven
White Wedding

Third prize winner of the 2009 Fortune Cookie Contest.

TODD BESANT
We’ve burned - 14th Annual Postcard Contest 3rd Prize

We’ve burned by Todd Besant - 14th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest 3rd Prize Winner

KENDALL POE
Western Child

Second Prize winner of the 16th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

What I Want to Say

Runner-up in the 2nd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

JANNIE EDWARDS
Velvet Deathtrap

First Prize Winner of the 17th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

When I Was Born

Runner-up in the 1st Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

Albert Butcher
The House on Mole Hill

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

We Are Electric

Honourable mention in the 6th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

LESLIE VRYENHOEK
Under the Surface

Third prize winner of the 7th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

CHRISTOPHER MOUSSEAU
Tyee Capital of the World

Honourable mention in the 6th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

To Do Today

Third prize winner of the 4th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

Tony

Honourable mention in the 3rd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

To the Man Wearing Christmas Lights in the Apartment Off of 7th Ave. NY on December 18th, 2012

An act of bravado inspires hope and freedom in the third prize winner of the 9th Postcard Story Contest.

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