"You wondered if you’d done something wrong, if suddenly you’d start sinking into quicksand, or get swallowed up by a whale." –from the essay "The Crush and the Rush and the Roar" by Anik See, in Geist 128 🏠 Read more at buff.ly/eJtH9zj

Come see Geist at Word Vancouver on Saturday, September 20! We'll be one of many literary exhibitors at UBC Robson Square downtown. Say hi & check out our latest issue :) Word Vancouver has a bunch of workshops & events to attend that day. For FREE! wordvancouver.ca

"I made a plan to get out. I just didn't know how to tell anyone." –from the comic "Petrine" by RJ McDaniel, in Geist 128 🟠 Read more at buff.ly/OElXKrT

Upcoming events with GEIST! Saturday, Sept. 20: Visit us at WORD Vancouver. We'll have a table at Robson Square downtown. Come say hi! Info: wordvancouver.ca Saturday, Sept. 27: The One in Spirit Writing Workshop at MOV. Spaces limited. Tickets: buff.ly/DWrxUtY

We'd never encourage you to eavesdrop, but... Send us the best one-liners you've overheard—on the street, at the ferry terminal, in line for pizza—and you might see them in our next issue! Reply via form at geist.com/overheard

"We followed the previous owner’s instructions and fed the six goats a small amount of grain, divided equally between six red buckets hanging from the fence. Goats love grain, and soon the goats loved us." –Madeleine Pelletier, "Dummies Raising Goats" #128 buff.ly/wj4MWzD

This Saturday. Spots are limited! Are you a writer wanting to connect your work to the history of this land? Or an educator looking for guidance on how to approach Truth and Reconciliation? This workshop is designed to support you. Register at buff.ly/IurQrOZ.

"At age ten, my bizarre mishmash of folklore, pop culture and Tolkien became something like religion to me, aided by a string of Christmases in which Santa granted my increasingly bizarre requests." –Sadie McCarney, "Christmas in Lothlórien" Geist 128 buff.ly/oHlYwuw

Geist 130 is out now! 💎 Notes & Dispatches from JORDAN KAWCHUK, GRAINNE DOWNEY, and JOSE TEODORO; Poetry by DENISE DA COSTA; Fiction by GRACE BOWNESS; Essays from JUDY LEBLANC and DANIEL ALLEN COX ...and much more! Cover art by TONIA NNEJI Buy here: buff.ly/mhcb2eW

Geist welcomes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and comics submissions, as well as art & photography. This is our final submission window of 2025 – send us your best work! Deadline: Nov 14, 2025 at 11:59 pm PT 🌚 Please read our submission guidelines at geist.com/submit

One more week to submit your best work to Geist! We are open across categories and especially encourage more NON-FICTION submissions. Deadline: November 14, 2025 🌊 Visit our full submission guidelines for more info at geist.com/submit

Submissions close tonight! Send us your best, weirdest, most beloved works of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, comics, art, and photography. We strongly encourage more non-fiction submissions! 🍂 Read our full guidelines and find the link to submit at geist.com/submit

Happy Pub Day to Biblioasis + the writers in the Best Canadian series! Special congrats to Geist authors! Nofel, “In Arabic” (Geist 127, poetry) Evelyn Lau, “Cursing, Flailing” (Geist 126, poetry) Hollie Adams, “A Partial List of Inconvenient Truths” (Geist 127, essay)

Next week! Join us for The Double Launch Party: Celebrating Geist 129 & 130! Readings: Gráinne Downey, Judy LeBlanc & Ginger Ngo. Plus, an open mic! Free to attend, space ltd. Register: buff.ly/mHRjlSb Thanks to: Upstart & Crow bookstore 33 Acres Brewing Co. Arrowleaf Cellars

Ginger Ngo is a picture book author-illustrator based in Vancouver, BC. She is a proud immigrant from the Philippines with lots of stories to tell. 🌺 Ginger wrote the dispatch "Strathcona" published in Geist 129. See her read at our launch party this Thursday at Upstart & Crow!

Gráinne Downey is an Irish-Canadian writer and artist from Vancouver. She is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC and spends much of her time looking out to sea. 🪻 Gráinne wrote "Some Ribs," published in Geist 130. See her read this Thursday at Upstart & Crow!

Judy LeBlanc is a fiction and non-fiction writer. She’s the author of The Promise of Water, The Broken Heart of Winter, and a memoir, Permission to Land. 🌹 Judy is a reader at our launch party tomorrow at Upstart & Crow! Read her essay "Road Trip with Wind Chill" in Geist 130.

🌟 Announcing the 20th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest Shortlist 🌟 Thanks to the more than 100 writers who sent in stories! We had fun reading them :) A big congratulations to the shortlisted authors! 🎈 Stay tuned—winners announced soon.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 20th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest! Many thanks to all those who entered and congratulations to the winners! Read the winning entries in Geist 131, out December 2025.