New Call for Submissions: Branching Out—All About Trees

Do you remember a time in childhood when you made friends with a particular tree, perhaps built a tree fort, climbed its branches and found solace, or whittled a piece of wood. Have you ever planted, nurtured, admired and taken delight in a tree, or its fruits? Perhaps you’ve planted a tree in memory of […]

Lost & Found Update!

Hello! We have now contacted everyone whose work we can accept for the Lost & Found issue. Thank you to everyone who submitted!

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Manitoba Kitchen Party: Launched!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the launch of Manitoba Kitchen Party! Thank you to McNally for having us, Kristian Enright for hosting and a big ol’ thanks to all of our readers! You all made the evening fantastic! If you missed the event, McNally has it on YouTube and you can watch […]

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Happy World Poetry Day 2026!

Happy World Poetry Day! This World Poetry Day (March 21, 2026) we will be releasing two videos of our 2025 MRB Poetry Contest winners reading their winning poems. Check out Sean Howard read “Taken Leaves” at 10 a.m. (CDT) and Pamela Dillon read “Caesura” at 2 p.m. (CDT). Those videos will be on our social […]

Book Review

Sightings by Patrick Friesen

Jul 7, 2026

In “My Last Duchess,” the dramatic monologue by Robert Browning, from 1842, the deceased title character exists only as a painting unveiled at the discretion of her narcissistic husband, Duke Alfonso of Ferrara. Her life has been transformed into a historical object, a representation whose meaning is shaped by the surviving narrator rather than by […]

Book Review

Night Birds by Margaret Sweatman

Jun 3, 2026

Night Birds, the seventh novel of award-winning Winnipeg writer Margaret Sweatman, develops themes of innocence and knowledge, guilt and redemption, through the central character of Farrar, a metallurgist who learns that his beloved foundry is funded by laundered money. Set in the near future amid ongoing environmental collapse, the novel also reads as an indictment […]