Submissions wanted (free for BIPOC writers) | $300 to $1,000 for nonfiction

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: GEIST

Deadline: 11 December 2024

Submission deadline EXTENDED to December 11, 2024 at midnight PST. Accepting non-fiction, comics, fiction, poetry and hybrid forms.

Geist is a magazine of ideas and culture with a strong literary focus and a sense of humour. The Geist tone is intelligent, plain-talking, inclusive and offbeat. Each issue represents a convergence of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, comics, reviews, little-known facts of interest, cartography and the legendary Geist crossword puzzle.  

Geist offers no-fee general submissions for Black writers, Indigenous writers, and writers of colour.

Please note: It is our mandate to publish writers and artists from across Canada.

• Please submit one piece and wait to hear back from us before submitting more work.

• Your cover letter should include your name, complete mailing address and email.

NON-FICTION: We publish short (approx. 800-1500 words, flexible) non-fiction, usually personal narrative, in the Notes and Dispatches section. Longer (up to 5000 words) non-fiction pieces are published as Features. Send one piece at a time. We pay $300-$500 for dispatches, up to $1,000 for features.

COMICS: We publish shorter comics in the Notes & Dispatches section, and publish longer comics as features, max. 8 pages. Send up to three strips or one longer comic at a time. We pay $120 per page.

FICTION: We publish short stories (up to 5000 words) in the Features section. We usually publish one story per issue, so please send only your best work. Send one story at a time. We pay up to $1,000

POETRY: Send a maximum of 5 poems, all in the same document. We publish 1-2 poems per issue. We pay $100 per page.

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CONTACT INFORMATION:

Submissions: Via Submittable

Website: https://www.geist.com/

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