Northbound is a journal for stories that need a wider horizon. We publish work from the places where a road, a job, a watershed or a family history changes the pace of a conversation. The work is not to make a region emblematic. It is to see it clearly enough that its particulars can remain particular.
Our writers take time with a subject, but we keep the language close to the ground. A longform story should have air in it: room for doubt, sensory detail, a contradiction that does not resolve on command and a person whose answer changes the next question.
The current report begins outside Saskatoon, where a gravel road makes its own line through the grass. It follows the questions that arrive with distance: who maintains a route, who depends on it, and what gets lost when a place becomes only an image from above.