Notes & Dispatches from Eimear Laffan, J.R. Patterson, and rob mclennan; New fiction by Angélique Lalonde; Feature essay from Minelle Mahtani; Poetry from Jade Wallace and Jane Shi, and much more!
Notes & Dispatches from Molly Cross-Blanchard, Sara de Waal, Owen Torrey, and more; New fiction by David Huebert; Comic by Eleanor Panno; Feature essay from Christine Lai; the winners of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Notes & Dispatches by Sara Graefe, Sarah Wolfson, Luca Cara Seccafien and more; New fiction by Toby Sharpe; Photo essay by Leanne Dunic; Winners of the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.
Notes & Dispatches by Jennilee Austria, Mazzy Sleep, David M. Wallace and many more, alongside a comix by Emily Chou; New fiction by Charles Brown; A reinvented city bylaws project by Future Perfect.
Notes & Dispatches by Connie Kuhns, Jeremy Colangelo, Danielle Hubbard and many more, alongside an in memoriam for Norbert Ruebsaat written e by Stephen Osborne; New fiction by Spencer Lucas Oakes; A portfolio on Ronnie Tessler’s close range rodeo photos.
Notes & Dispatches by Jill Boettger, Tara McGuire, Natasha Greenblatt and others; New fiction by David Clerson; Sadiqa de Meijer on on practicing medicine in a prison town;Winners of the 17th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Notes & Dispatches by Sara Cassidy, Stephen Smith and others; New fiction by K’ari Fisher; Dr. Cheryl Thompson on dismantling the myth of the hero; Winners of the Occasional Geist Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.
Randy Fred and Celia Haig-Brown on residential schools and the long road to justice; New fiction by Susie Taylor; Daniel Canty walks the curve of the contagion; Carmen Tiampo on red skies, political bubbles and giggling babies.
Jonathan Monpetit and the art of shaving oneself; Kristen den Hartog on the many faces of WWI; Stephen Henighan on viral diseases and dead rabbits; Ola Szczecinska on praying to neon crosses and the voices from the grave.
Paul Seesequasis on the photography of Métis Activist James Brady; Andrea Routley and her cyber straight-girl crush; Jordyn Catalano gets COVID tested; Alberto Manguel on Joseph Bollery and Léon Bloy.
Winners of the 5th Occasional Erasure Poetry Contest; James Pollock and the rhythmic churn of an unbalanced drum; Randy Fred remembers the heady days of psychedelics; Joe Bongiorno attends an amateur wrestling slugfest; Alberto Manguel on literature and morality.
Louie Palu captures the Arctic landscape; Connie Kuhns on the tweets of Yoko Ono; Lorna MacKinnon prepares for a hurricane; Alberto Manguel on the defeat of Sherlock Holmes.
Stephen Henighan examines the decline of left nationalism in Canada; Duncan Cairns-Brenner captures intimate moments in the bedrooms of strangers; Miriam Libicki recalls accusations that she was an unfit parent after letting her children play outside; Hàn Fúsēn wanders around town with a writer of magic realism.
Lisa Bird-Wilson witnesses the impact of climate change in the Arctic; Finn Wylie takes a road trip with Cupid; Mary Schendlinger memorializes Edith Iglauer; Alberto Manguel concedes to an orgy of kisses.
AnnMarie MacKinnon locates a chicken at large; Carla Nappi reimagines Plato’s Symposium; Ola Szczecinska visits Warsaw to keep from losing her memories; Michal Kozlowski tours Rideau Hall during the Governor General’s Literary Awards; Alberto Manguel considers the subversive nature of reading.
Lisa Bird-Wilson on indigenous rights and occupation anxiety; Jeff Shucard on King Zog and the Secret Heart of Albania; Alberto Manguel questions his identity at airport security; Christopher Grabowski photographs the Parade of Lost Souls.
Stephen Henighan unravels the mysteries of Alejo Carpentier; Terence Byrnes joins the Ottawa Valley Marauders for a day; Alberto Manguel begins at the beginning rereading Don Quixote; Postcard Contest winners.
Lisa Bird-Wilson on claiming Indigenous identities and the Indian Act; Connie Kuhns on 50 years of Joni Mitchell reviews; Alberto Manguel makes peace with the devil; Jocelyn Kuang prepares her grandfather for the afterlife.
Norbert Ruebsaat on his earliest memories of the English language; Jill Boetgger gains a new perspective on art from an unexpected teacher; Jocelyn Kuang ventures into the world of "experiential cocktails."
Editor-in-residence: Jordan Abel."Folk Song," a new short story that looks at love and loss from Stephen Smith; Carol Sawyer examines the exclusivity of modernism in The Natalie Brettschneider Archive; winners of the 13 Annual Literal Literary Postcard Contest.
Editor-in-residence: Jordan Abel.
"Paradise," a visceral new poem by Evelyn Lau; Stills from a 360-degree immersive video project documenting the economics of immigration by Michel Huneault and Sarah R. Champagne; A philosophy student with an affection for Heidegger survives three months’ hard labour in "Shack Stories" by Andrew Boden.
Jonah Samson's vintage found photography after Waiting For Godot; Downtown East Side poetry suite by Henry Doyle; A history of Canadian snack food by Janis Thiessen; New short fiction by Shannon Webb-Campbell.
Terence Byrnes' photographic memoir of black and white in America’s unhappiest city; Winners of the Can't Lit Without It CanLit Short Story Contest; Evelyn Lau navigates nervous tics and the Home Depot flooring aisle.
Hinterland Who's Who poetry by C.R. Gilpin; Brent Lewin's Hong Kong neon photography; short fiction by Richard Kelly Kemick; a new flow chart by leannej.
Cary Fagan on sideshow oddities and a Jewish Huck Finn; Jill Mandrake's typewriter poetry; Dreams on the Richter scale collected by Rick Maddocks; Winners of the 12th Annual Postcard Story Contest; New fiction by Curtis LeBlanc.
The lost diary of Sir John Franklin as told by Stephen Smith; Alaska Highway photography; Terra Poirier's pinhole diary project; humanitarian war fugue by Stephen Heighton.
Geist 99, Winter 2015. The Winnipeg Arcades Project takes on prairie gambling culture; Winners of the 2015 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest; Lydia Kwa's linguistic tantrums; Jen Osborne photographs women at war; excerpt from the novel that won the 37th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest.