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Congratulations on 35 years, Geist! 🎉✨ Also, welcome to Bluesky!

This Friday, Geist is joined by our friends at subTerrain and EVENT to celebrate our 35th anniversary.

Three Geist authors will read from their work, published in 131, our 35th Anniversary Issue.

🔶 Morgan L. Ventura
🔶 Erika Thorkelson
🔶 Adèle Barclay

See you Friday, January 30 at The Pleasant!

This Friday, Geist is joined by our friends at subTerrain and EVENT to celebrate our 35th anniversary.

Two EVENT authors will read from their work:

💎 Adèle Barclay
💎 Jade Y. Liu

See you on Friday, January 30 at The Pleasant for the Geist 35th Anniversary Celebration!

This Friday, Geist is joined by our friends at subTerrain + EVENT to celebrate our 35th anniversary. Two subTerrain authors will read from their work, published in subTerrain 101, their Dreams issue.

🌟 Erin Ashenhurst
🌟 Natasha Sanders-Kay

See you Friday, January 30 @ The Pleasant in Vancouver!

Trick or treat? Fact or fiction? Send us your eerie prose, haunted moments, and uncanny tales, from the strangeness of the everyday to the sublime. The PolterGeist writing contest is open to Canadian and international entrants. 500 words max. Deadline: Feb 19, 2026 at 11:59PM PT

geist.com/contests

Geist presents Dream Reportage, a creative writing workshop facilitated by José Teodoro, writer, artist, curator, & musician. This workshop takes place over two consecutive Sundays, February 15 + 22.

Details + Register: www.geist.com/blogs/dream-...

Image: Laura Barrón, laurabarron.ca

We'd never encourage you to eavesdrop, but...

Send us the best one-liners you've overheard and you might see them in our next issue!

Pssst... want to get creative? Draw a one-panel comic of your Overheard and upload it along with your submission (optional).

Reply via form at geist.com/overheard

Issue 131 is out now, marking 35 years of Geist 🔮

Notes & Dispatches from ANDREW UNGER, ADÈLE BARCLAY, KATHERINE J BARRETT + WILLIAM BESSAI-SAUL

Poetry by OWEN TORREY + MORGAN LEATHEM VENTURA

Essays from ERIKA THORKELSON + KASIA VAN SCHAIK

Cover art by ALENA WEBBER

& much more!

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