Welcome to Milk Bag Magazine
A fresh, Canadian, independent literary magazine. We publish poetry, short fiction, art, and reviews quarterly.
Our goal is to encourage artists to challenge traditional forms, write their own narratives, and to queer our world in all senses of the word. This is a place for otherness.
SHOP ISSUE 1.4
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ISSUE 1.4: The Long Night
This issue, The Long Night, published on the shortest day of the year, is a darker and moodier love letter to the winter. An issue full of carnal pleasure, biting truths, transformation, and the stillness of a quiet night blanketed in snow.
Our call for submissions asked artists to send us their innermost feelings and grief, their carnal lust and desperate pleas, their ego deaths and self discoveries. We asked for fiction that plumbed the depths of darkness, poetry that explored the shadows, and art that showed us that which hides in the dark of the long night.
Now without further ado, turn on the kettle, light the wood stove, grab your warmest blanket, and settle in for The Long Night.
Issue 1.1 Now Free
Issue 1.1 is going into the archive, and we here at Milk Bag MAgazine thought what better way to celebrate a year of milky goodness then by makig our first issue free to read.
This issue , encapsulates our ethos. A milk bag is a distinctly Canadian object, evoking feelings of nostalgia, highlighting the tension that exists between curdle and rot, and steeping us in the sense memory of a solitary midnight drink—milk drops slipping down the chin in the refrigerator glow.
“Belly First,” by Dana R. Share, captures nostalgia, place, and wild girlhood in the hazy heat of a rural Ontario summer. In Jack O’Grady’s, “A Couch, Rotting,” we find a suburb imbued with the magic of adolescent boredom, friendship and mythology. In turn, Elsa Brittin’s, “Trophy for a Blueberry Bush,” is a beautiful visual representation of nature’s ability to conjure emotion and memory.
See these pieces and so much more inside Milk Bag Magazine Issue 1.1, Milk Bag.