Geist Magazine

The deadline for the 2026 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest has been EXTENDED! ✍️ You have two more weeks to send us your stories 📬

Write a story that unfolds in two or more Canadian time zones in 500 words or less, fiction or non-fiction. This could mean a physical transition across time zones (like a road trip), or an implied transition between them (like a phone call). The details are up to you—get creative!

To submit: http://geist.com/contests
Or see the link in our bio!

Last call for submissions! Send us your best, weirdest, most beloved works of NON-FICTION, COMICS, ART and PHOTOGRAPHY. Deadline: TONIGHT! June 15, 2026 at 11:59pm PT 🐏

We'd love to see more short forms—essays of under 2,000 words and comic strips for our Notes & Dispatches section.

Read our full guidelines and find the link to submit at geist.com/submit

One more week to submit your best work to Geist! We are currently reading for NON-FICTION and COMICS, as well as ART and PHOTOGRAPHY.

Deadline: June 15, 2026 ✨️

Geist is especially interested in writing grounded in a sense of place, and personal essays about fascinating fields of work, practices or hobbies. We're drawn to essays that borrow the shape of lists, letters, instructions or other unconventional structures 🐚

Please see our full submission guidelines at geist.com/submit

The 2026 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest is now open for submissions!

Write a story that unfolds in two or more Canadian time zones.

Deadline: June 19, 2026

To submit: http://geist.com/contests
Or see the link in our bio!

Geist is seeking NON-FICTION essays and COMICS submissions for our upcoming issues, as well as ART & PHOTOGRAPHY 🕳️

We love innovative, thoughtfully-researched and emotionally resonant narrative non-fiction in all its forms. Send us comics that are weird, funny, unexpected or experimental.

Deadline: June 15, 2026 at 11:59pm PT 🐏

Please read our full guidelines at geist.com/submit

We'd never encourage you to eavesdrop, but...

Send us the best one-liners you've overheard—on the street, at the aquarium, in line for pastries—and you might see them in our next issue!

Pssst... want to get creative? Draw a one-panel comic of your Overheard and upload it along with your submission (optional).

Reply via form at geist.com/overheard

Call for submissions! Geist is now open for NON-FICTION and COMICS submissions, as well as ART and PHOTOGRAPHY. Deadline: June 15 at 11:59 pm PT 🐏

We welcome creative, thoughtfully researched and emotionally resonant narrative non-fiction in all its forms. We are especially interested in writing grounded in a sense of place, and fascinating fields of work, practices or hobbies. We love comics that are weird, funny, unexpected or experimental.

For more info, read our submission guidelines at geist.com/submit

Geist 132 is out now! 🌘

Notes & Dispatches from EMILY MOORE, SAGE TYRTLE, IAN ROY, and JESS HOUSTY
Poetry by JADE RIORDAN and ERIN VOSTERS
Fiction by ALEX LESLIE
Essays from KATE REIDER COLLINS, NIKKI CELIS, and CHRISTINE LAI..and much more!

Cover art by JAN CONN 🦄

Pick up this gorgeous issue at geist.com/subscribe-online/geist-132

In January, we put out a call to raise $20,000 to allow our non-profit to operate smoothly for the rest of the year, as uncertainty abounds within the arts and beyond. But it is a precarious time for everybody.

So it has been invigorating and hopeful to receive an influx of support from so many people willing to put their hard-earned bucks toward a print magazine.

At Geist, we strive to contribute to a healthy literary landscape in Canada by elevating writers and artists who forefront nuance, by publishing a particularly weird and wonderful mix of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, comix, reviews, photography, collage and little-known facts that you simply cannot find elsewhere. It’s slow, challenging work done with utmost intention. So thank you to all of our readers, subscribers and lit-lovers who gave us a serious boost this year.

From January 29 to March 31, we raised a total of $5,933. This is a huge success. Thank you!

The funds raised will go directly toward our printing, operational and circulation expenses.

Geist is grateful to the Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the UBC School of Creative Writing for supporting our fundraiser.