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Short Long-Distance Writing Contest
Write a story that unfolds in two or more Canadian time zones! CLOSED.
Six Deaths
First prize winner of the 3rd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
ANNA LEVENTHAL
Scarlets and Cubans
Second prize winner of the 2nd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Jennifer Kinnear
Sailing the Accountant Sea: A Fiscal Pirate’s Shanty
Second prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.
D.M. LONG
Sand
Third prize winner of the 10th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
SUE HIRST
Room for Elephants
Runner-up in the 2nd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Secondhand
Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.
JESSICA MICHALOFSKY
Schrödinger’s Cat
Honourable mention in the 8th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
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JILL TALBOT
Security
An island rows away from North America in the Third Prize-winning entry to the 2015 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest by Jill Talbot.
JANNIE EDWARDS
Real Smoking Pleasure
"Inhale. Exhale through pursed red lips. How do you do? I’m a divorcée. A Canadian divorcée." Prize-winning Tobacco Lit by Jannie Edwards.
JANE WEBSTER
Portrait of the Winning Team
Second prize winner of the 4th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Rattlesnake Rodeo
A hard-bitten uncle ends up in the hospital in the second prize winner of the 9th Postcard Story Contest.
GENEVIEVE MORCK
Proud Mary
Runner-up in the 2nd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Pinky Promise
Honourable mention in the 3rd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Please Send Help
Runner-up in the 1st Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
JULIA VELLA
Peace Time
Second prize winner of the 6th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
JAMES MACSWAIN
Nettie, Rose, Daphne and Ginger
First prize winner of the 10th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Julie Vandervoort
People Who Know Who They Are
Runner-up in the 1st Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
BENJAMIN DUGDALE
Pekoe
First prize winner of the 2015 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.
HEATHER O'CONNOR
One Foot in the Grave
Never know what you'll find in the dirt of this honourable mention in the 9th Postcard Story Contest.
CATHY MCLEAN
Non-Violent Communication
"I says to the guy next to me, I says, 'Is this some kind of a fucking cult or something?'" Third Prize winner of the 12th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
Lost and Found
Honourable mention in the 3rd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
BARBARA BAYDALA
No Time to Write
"Hectic here. This town is friendly but not rich. There’s a party nearly every night." Barbara Baydala's first prize winning entry in the 11th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.
