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.
ISSUE 2.1: The Green Issue
This issue, The Long Night, published on the shortest day
Blog Post Name
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.