Geist (magazine)
Canadian literary magazine
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::summary Canadian literary magazine ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| title | Geist |
| image_size | 118px |
| image_caption | Issue #98 (Fall, 2015) |
| founder | Stephen Osborne |
| company | The Geist Foundation |
| circulation | 10,000 |
| frequency | Quarterly |
| language | Canadian English |
| category | Literary magazine, Canadian culture |
| firstdate | 1990 |
| country | Canada |
| website | geist.com |
| issn | 1181-6554 |
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| title = Geist | image_file = | image_size = 118px | image_caption = Issue #98 (Fall, 2015) | founder = Stephen Osborne | company = The Geist Foundation | circulation = 10,000 | frequency = Quarterly | language = Canadian English | category = Literary magazine, Canadian culture | firstdate = 1990 | country = Canada | website = geist.com | issn = 1181-6554
Geist is a Canadian literary magazine published quarterly since 1990. The magazine takes its name from the German word geist (meaning "mind" or "spirit").
Geist was co-founded in 1990 by Stephen Osborne and Mary Schendlinger in their living room, with financing of just $7,500. On April 20, 2015, Geist announced that Osborne and Schendlinger would be stepping down and staff members Michał Kozłowski and AnnMarie MacKinnon would be taking over.
The magazine is known in part for its series of Canadian maps (e.g. "Canadian placenames that sound impolite," "The Beer Map of Canada," etc.) and for spearheading various campaigns, such as petitions to have folk singer Stan Rogers inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Geist Annual Literal Literary Postcard Contest.
Geist has received numerous award nominations, including National Magazine Awards in 2010 and 2017. It won the 2017 Gold Medal for Photojournalism & Photo Essay for Terence Byrnes' South of Buck Creek. In 2019 Geist was nominated for two National Magazine Awards in the Personal Journalism and Column categories. Lisa Bird-Wilson won the Silver Column award for "Clowns, Cakes, Canoes: This is Canada?" Geist has been featured in the Utne Reader.
Notable contributors
- David Albahari
- Lynn Coady
- Douglas Coupland
- Michael Crummey
- Ann Diamond
- George Fetherling
- Patrick Friesen
- Stephen Henighan
- Sheila Heti
- Edith Iglauer
- Evelyn Lau
- Annabel Lyon
- Alberto Manguel
- Yann Martel
- Sachiko Murakami
- Joseph Pearson
- Paul Quarrington
- J. Jill Robinson
- Moez Surani
- Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Miriam Toews
- Michel Tremblay
- Andrew Unger
- Joshua Whitehead
- Ian Williams
References
References
- (August 18, 2017). "A guide to Canadian literary magazines and journals open to submissions".
- (2017-10-25). "Geist Magazine".
- [http://www.geist.com/blogs/news/geist-founders-usurped/ Geist Founders Usurped After 95 Issues] Geist.com. Retrieved on 2015-05-25.
- "The Geist Atlas of Canada".
- [http://www.geist.com/blog/stan/ "Stan-ecdotes"] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-05-28 Geist.com. Retrieved on 2009-03-20.)
- (2019-02-20). "The 15th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest".
- [http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/postcard_stories_from_geist_magazine_20070919/ "Postcard Stories From Geist Magazine"] World Hum. Retrieved on 2009-03-20.
- (May 7, 2010). "This Magazine nominated for three National Magazine Awards".
- (April 20, 2017). "This Magazine nominated for three National Magazine Awards".
- (2018-01-10). "Off the Page: Terence Byrnes".
- National Media Awards Foundation. (May 15, 2019). "2019 National Magazine Awards Nominations".
- (2019-06-01). "Announcing the Winners of the 42nd Annual National Magazine Awards".
- Bird-Wilson, Lisa. (2017-07-04). "Clowns, Cakes, Canoes: This is Canada?".
- "Library Crawl: Trolling the Utne Library".
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