Cutbank


CutBank is interested in art, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of high quality and serious intent. We regularly print work by both well-known and previously unpublished artists. We read submissions from October through February. Manuscripts received from March through September will be returned unread. In addition, CutBank is hosting contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction during the winter of 2007/2008. Entries will be accepted from December through February. Contest details and guidelines are now available. Please include an SASE for response or return of submitted material. CutBank will try to respond to all manuscripts within four months. Please do not contact CutBank to inquire after your submission until at least four months after submission. Manuscripts must be typed and paginated, with the author's name on each page. We encourage the use of paper clips over staples. Fiction and nonfiction writers should submit only one piece at a time, no longer than forty pages. Poets may submit up to five poems. Artists and photographers may submit up to five works at one time. Send slides or reproductions only—do not send original art. If a piece has been submitted simultaneously to another publication, please let us know. We do not accept previously published work from unsolicited authors. Please address all submissions to the appropriate editor—poetry, fiction, nonfiction or art—at the following address: CutBank Department of English, LA 133 The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction ($500)

SUZANNE ANTONETTA PAOLA Judging the 2008 Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction Suzanne Antonetta Paola's Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2001 and won an American Book Award for that year. Her second nonfiction book, A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World, was published in 2005. In it, Paola—writing as Suzanne Antonetta— shows how we can learn from those with neurological disorders such as depression, multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. Paola is also the recipient of the 1998 Brittingham Prize for Bardo, her third book of poetry. A fourth book of poetry, The Lives of the Saints, was published by the University of Washington Press in October 2002. Paola teaches creative writing at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. FULL GUIDELINES: Submissions postmarked earlier than December 1, 2007 or later than February 29, 2008 will be returned unread (along with payment). Submissions are accepted via postal mail only. Please include SASE for reply and prepare your manuscript according to CutBank's conventional submission guidelines. The contest entry must be noted on the envelope and cover letter, i.e.: The Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction CutBank English Dept, LA 133 University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 A $13 contest entry fee includes a one-year subscription to CutBank. The entry fee covers the reading of a single submission in a single genre. Prose writers, please send only a single work of no greater than 40 printed pages. Submissions that exceed these guidelines will be returned unread, along with payment. Please submit only once within in a genre, although writers are permitted to submit in multiple genres. Please include a short cover letter that mentions your address, phone number, and email address, as well as the title of your work. Please include the author's name on the manuscript—names will be removed from the pool of submissions that goes before our contest judges. Current subscribers may submit for the same $13 fee—subscriptions will be extended by one year. Please submit entry fee by personal or cashier's check. Checks can be made out to CutBank Literary Magazine. Entrants will be notified of their submission status no later than May 15, 2008. One winner in each genre, as chosen by our guest judges, will receive a $500 award and publication in CutBank 69, our summer 2008 issue. Winners will be required to complete a W-9 form to receive payment. All manuscripts are considered for publication in CutBank. All rights to selected manuscripts revert to the author upon publication. The author grants their permission to have their work electronically archived as part of CutBank 69 in EBSCO International's subscription-based research database. Current University of Montana students and faculty and former CutBank staff are not eligible for the awards.

Deadline:2/29/2008


Montana Prize in Fiction ($500)

AIMEE BENDER Judging the 2008 Montana Prize in Fiction Aimee Bender is the author of three books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, and Willful Creatures; her short fiction has been published in Harper's, GQ, Granta, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney's and more, as well as widely anthologized and heard on PRI's This American Life. She has received two Pushcart Prizes, and has been translated into seven languages. FULL GUIDELINES: Submissions postmarked earlier than December 1, 2007 or later than February 29, 2008 will be returned unread (along with payment). Submissions are accepted via postal mail only. Please include SASE for reply and prepare your manuscript according to CutBank's conventional submission guidelines. The contest entry must be noted on the envelope and cover letter, i.e.: The Montana Prize in Poetry CutBank English Dept, LA 133 University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 A $13 contest entry fee includes a one-year subscription to CutBank. The entry fee covers the reading of a single submission in a single genre. Prose writers, please send only a single work of no greater than 40 printed pages. Submissions that exceed these guidelines will be returned unread, along with payment. Please submit only once within in a genre, although writers are permitted to submit in multiple genres. Please include a short cover letter that mentions your address, phone number, and email address, as well as the title of your work. Please include the author's name on the manuscript—names will be removed from the pool of submissions that goes before our contest judges. Current subscribers may submit for the same $13 fee—subscriptions will be extended by one year. Please submit entry fee by personal or cashier's check. Checks can be made out to CutBank Literary Magazine. Entrants will be notified of their submission status no later than May 15, 2008. One winner in each genre, as chosen by our guest judges, will receive a $500 award and publication in CutBank 69, our summer 2008 issue. Winners will be required to complete a W-9 form to receive payment. All manuscripts are considered for publication in CutBank. All rights to selected manuscripts revert to the author upon publication. The author grants their permission to have their work electronically archived as part of CutBank 69 in EBSCO International's subscription-based research database. Current University of Montana students and faculty and former CutBank staff are not eligible for the awards.

Deadline:2/29/2008


Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry ($500)

MICHELE GLAZER Judging the 2008 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry Michele Glazer earned an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry writing, and literature classes with a focus on poetry. Her books are It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See (AWP Award in Poetry, pub. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997) and Aggregate of Disturbances (Iowa Prize, pub. University of Iowa Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Field, Colorado Review, Volt, and College English. Glazer has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and Oregon's Literary Arts, Inc. FULL GUIDELINES: Submissions postmarked earlier than December 1, 2007 or later than February 29, 2008 will be returned unread (along with payment). Submissions are accepted via postal mail only. Please include SASE for reply and prepare your manuscript according to CutBank's conventional submission guidelines. The contest entry must be noted on the envelope and cover letter, i.e.: The Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry CutBank English Dept, LA 133 University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 A $13 contest entry fee includes a one-year subscription to CutBank. The entry fee covers the reading of a single submission in a single genre. Poets may submit up to five poems. Submissions that exceed these guidelines will be returned unread, along with payment. Please submit only once within in a genre, although writers are permitted to submit in multiple genres. Please include a short cover letter that mentions your address, phone number, and email address, as well as the title of your work. Please include the author's name on the manuscript—names will be removed from the pool of submissions that goes before our contest judges. Current subscribers may submit for the same $13 fee—subscriptions will be extended by one year. Please submit entry fee by personal or cashier's check. Checks can be made out to CutBank Literary Magazine. Entrants will be notified of their submission status no later than May 15, 2008. One winner in each genre, as chosen by our guest judges, will receive a $500 award and publication in CutBank 69, our summer 2008 issue. Winners will be required to complete a W-9 form to receive payment. All manuscripts are considered for publication in CutBank. All rights to selected manuscripts revert to the author upon publication. The author grants their permission to have their work electronically archived as part of CutBank 69 in EBSCO International's subscription-based research database. Current University of Montana students and faculty and former CutBank staff are not eligible for the awards.

Deadline:2/29/2008