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
Call for submissions! Geist is now open for NON-FICTION and COMICS submissions, as well as ART and PHOTOGRAPHY. Deadline: June 12 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
Calling all artists, photographers, and collage-makers! Send us your best, weirdest, most beloved artworks and photography. We would love to see COLLAGE submissions!
We're looking for art and photography (traditional, digital, mixed media, collage, etc.) to accompany written work in the magazine.
Submit by June 12 at 11:59 p.m. PT ☀️.
Please read our full submission guidelines at geist.com/submit
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.
"In the empty lot across the street from my house, which was a mobile like the other homes on Turner Avenue, Bailey took off her training bra and flung it in a birch tree." —Jennifer Gossoo, Things Discovered and Un-, Geist 129 🌲
Read the dispatch in full at geist.com/fact/things-discovered-and-un
Two more days to contribute to our fundraiser!
💛 geist.com/donate/donate-to-geist-today 💛
We're a few steps closer to our goal—thank you to those who have shown support over the last several weeks.
If you'd like to help, donate, subscribe, or share.
Geist is good for you.
Look, we ate the doughnuts. But we still have gift boxes. And they are just that—a gift. Inside, you'll find the good stuff: great literature, a Geist "section" hat (sun protection!), a vehicle for your favourite hot beverage, a zippered tote to fill with books, and a few more surprises. Designed by Jia 何家嘉 and with original art by Nora Kelly, these anniversary gift boxes were made special, in a limited quantity.
Donate $250 or more to our fundraiser by March 31, and we will mail a gift box right to you.
There are 4 days left to reach our fundraising goal, and we still need your help! Consider supporting by donating any amount before March 31, becoming a subscriber, or sharing this with a friend.
🍩 Donate at the link in our bio or here: geist.com/donate/donate-to-geist-today 🍩
"I think Walter Benjamin's ideas on storytelling are as relevant today as they were in the last century. I hope Geist will play a big role in reminding all of us on the relevance of creative nonfiction in the context of headline onslaughts and hallucinatory (AI) fact overload. Geist is about facts just as much as it is about fiction, yes, but the creative nonfiction we're interested in is not the same as the ingestion of processed, sugary facts. I want Geist to be stubbornly unswipeable, to keep providing slow, deliberate consumption of facts through storytelling."
—Anson Ching, Secretary, Geist Board of Directors
Less than a week before our fundraiser ends, and we still have some gift boxes! Donate $250 or more and we will mail you a limited-edition gift box full of Geist goodness, including merch with original art by Nora Kelly and designs by Jia 何家嘉,
Unswipeable, slow, deliberate. That's print, that's great literature, that's Geist. If that's the kind of thing you're into, consider donating before March 31.
🩵 Donate at the link in our bio or here: geist.com/donate/donate-to-geist-today 🩵
"There wasn't much to it at first glance. Just people recording themselves while stranded in the woods, trying to navigate absurd artificial scarcity of their own making." —CM Wain, COVID Cryptid, Geist 129 ⛺️
Read the comic in full at geist.com/comics/covid-cryptid
"It has opened my eyes to the diversity of local talent, but also to the work involved in putting out a print magazine."
—Cornelia Mars, on being part of the Geist community. Cornelia is a writer and editor, and a member of the Geist Reading Collective.
We just surpassed 25% of our $20,000 goal. But we still need your help! Please support if you can, whether its ten bucks or a hundo—every dollar goes toward our hefty operational costs.
We believe in print. We believe in stories and great literature. We believe in humans and art. We believe the time is worth it, and the process is the point. If that's the kind of thing you're into, consider donating before March 31. We'd love if you shared this with a friend.
💗 Donate at the link in our bio or here: geist.com/donate/donate-to-geist-today 💗
Thank you!
"There’s power in a name. Yours is common, an easy bet in any graveyard. Sometimes there are more options than I care to consider: lavish monuments with butter soft carvings of angels, shabby rectangular stones shot through with cracks." —Courtney Buder, Revenant, Geist 129 🪽
Read the dispatch in full at geist.com/fact/revenant
Submissions close tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT 🐠
Send us your best, weirdest, most beloved works of non-fiction, comics, art, and photography.
Read our full guidelines and find the link to submit at geist.com/submit
