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

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

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

Announcing the 2024 Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest Shortlist! 

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.

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

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Your Qs, answered.

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

Third 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.

Write a modern work shanty for the chance to win cash prizes and publication. We're bringing back the old timey work shanty but updated for new timey jobs. CLOSED.

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

Get all your questions answered here!

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

A bricklayer's daughter is banished to Hungary in Patricia Young's First Prize-winning entry to 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.

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

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

Read a story by Lorren Stewart, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, about struggle and redemption on the Downtown East Side.

At the homeless shelter at the First United Church, Tavis W. Dodds learns the closer to the altar, the better the sleep. Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

The writing contest is open to all residents of the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver.

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.

First prize winner of the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.