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The Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest Examples

Here are some li'l ditties we put together to get those brains a-workin'Deadline: December 15, 2018.

The Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest FAQ

The writing contest that's bringing back the old timey work shanty updated for new timey jobs! Deadline: December 15, 2018.

JANET TRULL
Pay As You Play- 14th Annual Postcard Contest 1st Prize

Pay As You Play by Janet Trull - 14th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest 1st Prize Winner

LANA PESCH
Quit - 14th Annual Postcard Contest 2nd Prize

Quit by Lana Pesch - 14th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest 2nd Prize Winner

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.

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

What I Want to Say

Runner-up in the 2nd Annual Geist 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.

GILLIAN BLORE
The Wisest Thing I’ve Ever Heard

"After dinner and six martinis Blair tells me I’m a crypto-misogynist because I don’t read enough female authors." First prize winner of the 12th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

The Tobacco Lit Writing Contest

Nicotine or the word processor: which is more addictive? CLOSED.

The Snowplow Buccaneer

First Prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.

The Stewardess Swims Over the Sea

First prize winner of the 1st Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

The Tobacco Lit Writing Contest FAQ

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