Geez wins awards

To our surprise and delight, Geez magazine won in both categories we entered in the Western Magazine Awards 2007: Best New Publication and Magazine of the Year – Manitoba.

As Manitoba winner we were eligible for the grand prize. In what some considered unprecedented, our new magazine took the overall award for Magazine of the Year-Western Canada.

“I don’t know what to say. What an amazing night,” said John Goossen, a new member of the Geez team who serves as an associate publisher. Goossen was in attendance to receive the awards and pose for photos.

“I’m thrilled,” said Aiden Enns who publishes and edits the magazine together with Will Braun from an office in Winnipeg. “Thanks to subscribers, readers and volunteers. A good idea is only as good as the support it garners,” said Enns.

Last year the Utne Independent Press Awards nominated Geez for Best New Publication and Best Spiritual Coverage.-Aiden Enns

Geez also won 7 awards from Canadian Church Press 2007. These included two first prizes, one each for Original Artwork Barbie Diorama series by Jen Williams and for Narrative (Fiction/Non-fiction) for Colin Mathewson’s “Lost but followed.”

We got second prize for General Excellence Magazine, Original Written Humour” for Carrie S. Martin’s Jesus was a fatty, and *Personal Experience (First Person Account) for Stephanie Tombari’s “Heal Me,” and for Letters to the Editor.

And, thanks to designer Darryl Brown, we received a third place award for Feature Layout and Design of an Edition for the Let’s Get Evangical issue, Geez no. 4.

Geez magazine is a quarterly, primarily print magazine that started in December 2005. It has grown to about 2,000 subscribers and is published free of advertising on 100 post-consumer waste recycled paper.

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  1. Congratulations to the Geez team for winning all these awards! I noticed in the pages of the Globe and Mail that you had won this deserved recognition. Keep up the good work – and maintain the edge!

    Joe Gunn June 24th, 2007 6:29pm

  2. Congratulations. I am not surprised but I am delighted.

    Judith Ammann June 24th, 2007 9:30pm

  3. Congratulations on the award. I’m a recent subscriber and think that it’s a well-deserved award. Keep on making holy mischief!

    Tom Bomhof June 24th, 2007 10:22pm

  4. way to go, geez! Are u sure you didn’t all win just cause of your good looks.

    Keep up the “good” work.

    Tony Earle

    Editor,

    Sheesh Magazine

    Okay, okay. Just kidding about the Sheesh Magazine part. :)

    Peace from the Good Coast.

    tony earle June 24th, 2007 11:49pm

  5. Congratulations – well deserved recognition for a fine magazine. Keep up the good work.

    Bill Gillis June 25th, 2007 6:49pm

  6. Congratulations on the awards. Geez is an honest look into the spiritual world of religion/relationship. Thank you!

    Spoke July 11th, 2007 1:18am

  7. I want to know more about your Geez Magazine, I am an Ethiopian
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    Hailemichael February 4th, 2008 10:40pm

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