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Spring 2026 Features:

Julia Lucas: In Sickness and In Health | Fiction

 Shelby Miller: Box | Fiction

Evan Byrkeland: Down in the Bunker | Poetry
Ian Brown: Base Guitar | Poetry
Julia Lucas: American Girls | Poetry
Kate Oliver: Night Swim | Poetry

Julia Lucas: Monarchy | Art

Jada Carlson: Barn Cats | CNF

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River Whale Review is an online literary journal that publishes the best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and other ambitious arts created by undergraduates at Minnesota State University, Mankato. River Whale seeks to highlight and celebrate creativity in unexpected spaces--like whale watchers on the Minnesota River, we love to be astounded.