Geist (magazine)

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Geist
Categories Literary magazine, Canadian culture
FrequencyQuarterly
Circulation 10,000
Founder Stephen Osborne
First issue1990
CompanyThe Geist Foundation
Country Canada
Language Canadian English
Website geist.com
ISSN 1181-6554

Geist is a Canadian literary magazine [1] published quarterly since 1990. The magazine takes its name from the German word geist (meaning "mind" or "spirit").

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Geist was co-founded in 1990 by Stephen Osborne and Mary Schendlinger in their living room, with financing of just $7,500. [2] 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. [3]

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.) [4] and for spearheading various campaigns, such as petitions to have folk singer Stan Rogers inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame [5] and the Geist Annual Literal Literary Postcard Contest. [6] [7]

Geist has received numerous award nominations, including National Magazine Awards in 2010 [8] and 2017. [9] It won the 2017 Gold Medal for Photojournalism & Photo Essay for Terence Byrnes' South of Buck Creek. [10] In 2019 Geist was nominated for two National Magazine Awards in the Personal Journalism and Column categories. [11] Lisa Bird-Wilson won the Silver Column award for "Clowns, Cakes, Canoes: This is Canada?" [12] [13] Geist has been featured in the Utne Reader. [14]

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