issues

Geist 127
buy now

Notes & Dispatches from ADRIAN RAIN, HOLLIE ADAMS and KATHY PAGE; New fiction by PAUL DHILLON; Feature essay from EMILY LU; Comics by ONJANA YAWNGHWE and YOKO OJI KIKUCHI; Poetry by NOFEL; Winners of the 2023 PolterGeist Writing Contest, and much more! 

Geist 126
buy now

Notes & Dispatches from KELLY BOUCHARD, DAYNA MAHANNAH and ERNIE KROEGER; New fiction by KATE CAYLEY; Feature essays from JOSEPH PEARSON and JEROME STUEART; Poetry by EVELYN LAU and EM DIAL, and much more! 

Geist 125
buy now

Notes & Dispatches from Eimear Laffan, J.R. Patterson, and rob mclennan; New fiction by Angélique Lalonde; Feature essay from Minelle Mahtani; Poetry from Jade Wallace and Jane Shi, and much more!

Geist 124
buy now

Notes & Dispatches from Molly Cross-Blanchard, Sara de Waal, Owen Torrey, and more; New fiction by David Huebert; Comic by Eleanor Panno; Feature essay from Christine Lai; the winners of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

Geist 123
buy now

Notes & Dispatches by Sara Graefe, Sarah Wolfson, Luca Cara Seccafien and more; New fiction by Toby Sharpe; Photo essay by Leanne Dunic; Winners of the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Geist 122
buy now

Notes & Dispatches by Jennilee Austria, Mazzy Sleep, David M. Wallace and many more, alongside a comix by Emily Chou; New fiction by Charles Brown; A reinvented city bylaws project by Future Perfect.

Geist 121
buy now

Notes & Dispatches by Connie Kuhns, Jeremy Colangelo, Danielle Hubbard and many more, alongside an in memoriam for Norbert Ruebsaat written e by Stephen Osborne; New fiction by Spencer Lucas Oakes; A portfolio on Ronnie Tessler’s close range rodeo photos.

Geist 120
buy now

Notes & Dispatches by Jill Boettger, Tara McGuire, Natasha Greenblatt and others; New fiction by David Clerson; Sadiqa de Meijer on on practicing medicine in a prison town;Winners of the 17th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

Geist 119
buy now

Notes & Dispatches by Sara Cassidy, Stephen Smith and others; New fiction by K’ari Fisher; Dr. Cheryl Thompson on dismantling the myth of the hero; Winners of the Occasional Geist Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.

Geist 118
buy now

Randy Fred and Celia Haig-Brown on residential schools and the long road to justice; New fiction by Susie Taylor; Daniel Canty walks the curve of the contagion; Carmen Tiampo on red skies, political bubbles and giggling babies.

Geist 117
buy now

Jonathan Monpetit and the art of shaving oneself; Kristen den Hartog on the many faces of WWI; Stephen Henighan on viral diseases and dead rabbits; Ola Szczecinska on praying to neon crosses and the voices from the grave.

Geist 116
buy now

Paul Seesequasis on the photography of Métis Activist James Brady; Andrea Routley and her cyber straight-girl crush; Jordyn Catalano gets COVID tested; Alberto Manguel on Joseph Bollery and Léon Bloy.

Geist 115
buy now

Winners of the 5th Occasional Erasure Poetry Contest; James Pollock and the rhythmic churn of an unbalanced drum; Randy Fred remembers the heady days of psychedelics; Joe Bongiorno attends an amateur wrestling slugfest; Alberto Manguel on literature and morality.

Geist 114
buy now

Louie Palu captures the Arctic landscape; Connie Kuhns on the tweets of Yoko Ono; Lorna MacKinnon prepares for a hurricane; Alberto Manguel on the defeat of Sherlock Holmes.

Geist 113
buy now

Stephen Henighan examines the decline of left nationalism in Canada; Duncan Cairns-Brenner captures intimate moments in the bedrooms of strangers; Miriam Libicki recalls accusations that she was an unfit parent after letting her children play outside; Hàn Fúsēn wanders around town with a writer of magic realism.

Geist 112
buy now

Lisa Bird-Wilson witnesses the impact of climate change in the Arctic; Finn Wylie takes a road trip with Cupid; Mary Schendlinger memorializes Edith Iglauer; Alberto Manguel concedes to an orgy of kisses.

Geist 111
buy now

AnnMarie MacKinnon locates a chicken at large; Carla Nappi reimagines Plato’s Symposium; Ola Szczecinska visits Warsaw to keep from losing her memories; Michal Kozlowski tours Rideau Hall during the Governor General’s Literary Awards; Alberto Manguel considers the subversive nature of reading.

Geist 110
buy now

Lisa Bird-Wilson on indigenous rights and occupation anxiety; Jeff Shucard on King Zog and the Secret Heart of Albania; Alberto Manguel questions his identity at airport security; Christopher Grabowski photographs the Parade of Lost Souls.

Geist 109
buy now

Stephen Henighan unravels the mysteries of Alejo Carpentier; Terence Byrnes joins the Ottawa Valley Marauders for a day; Alberto Manguel begins at the beginning rereading Don Quixote; Postcard Contest winners.

Geist 108
buy now

Lisa Bird-Wilson on claiming Indigenous identities and the Indian Act; Connie Kuhns on 50 years of Joni Mitchell reviews; Alberto Manguel makes peace with the devil; Jocelyn Kuang prepares her grandfather for the afterlife.

Geist 107
buy now

Norbert Ruebsaat on his earliest memories of the English language; Jill Boetgger gains a new perspective on art from an unexpected teacher; Jocelyn Kuang ventures into the world of "experiential cocktails."

Geist 106
buy now

Editor-in-residence: Jordan Abel."Folk Song," a new short story that looks at love and loss from Stephen Smith; Carol Sawyer examines the exclusivity of modernism in The Natalie Brettschneider Archive; winners of the 13 Annual Literal Literary Postcard Contest.

Geist 105
buy now

Editor-in-residence: Jordan Abel.

"Paradise," a visceral new poem by Evelyn Lau; Stills from a 360-degree immersive video project documenting the economics of immigration by Michel Huneault and Sarah R. Champagne; A philosophy student with an affection for Heidegger survives three months’ hard labour in "Shack Stories" by Andrew Boden.

Geist 104
buy now

Jonah Samson's vintage found photography after Waiting For Godot; Downtown East Side poetry suite by Henry Doyle; A history of Canadian snack food by Janis Thiessen; New short fiction by Shannon Webb-Campbell.

Geist 103
buy now

Terence Byrnes' photographic memoir of black and white in America’s unhappiest city; Winners of the Can't Lit Without It CanLit Short Story Contest; Evelyn Lau navigates nervous tics and the Home Depot flooring aisle.

Geist 102
buy now

Hinterland Who's Who poetry by C.R. Gilpin; Brent Lewin's Hong Kong neon photography; short fiction by Richard Kelly Kemick; a new flow chart by leannej.

Geist 101
buy now

Cary Fagan on sideshow oddities and a Jewish Huck Finn; Jill Mandrake's typewriter poetry; Dreams on the Richter scale collected by Rick Maddocks; Winners of the 12th Annual Postcard Story Contest; New fiction by Curtis LeBlanc.