CutBank Submissions Calendar
Print Editions
General submissions are open from September 15 through February 1 for poetry (5 per submission), visual art (5 files per submission), fiction, and creative nonfiction up to 8,500 words. Electronic submissions only, guidelines here.
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Contests
Over $3,000 awarded annually!
Electronic submissions only, guidelines here.
The Montana Prize in Fiction
December 1 - February 1, 2025 judge to be announcedThe Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction
December 1 - February 1, 2025 judge to be announcedThe Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry
December 1 - February 1, 2025 judge to be announcedThe Annual CutBank Chapbook Contest
January 1 - May 31The Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest
September 15 - October 15th, judged by Dinty W. Moore
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All Accounts and Mixture: A Celebration of LGBTQ Writers and Artists: UPDATE:
Sadly, we lacked the staffing in 2023 and 2024 to run this contest, but we’re hoping to bring it back in the fall of 2025! We apologize for this and hope to bring All Accounts & Mixture back ASAP.
CutBank’s annual online feature showcasing poetry, prose, visual art, reviews, and interviews in a forum for writers whose voices might be mis- or underrepresented by the literary mainstream.
Submissions open September 1st through October 1st via our Submittable page. As always, there will be no submission fee.
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Submit year-round in the following categories. You'll find all the details here.
Book Reviews: CutBank’s longest-running digital feature – original reviews of contemporary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Please send your suggestions and queries to our Special Projects & Reviews Editor at cutbankreview@gmail.com. (Staffing is currently limited for this feature, so we will do our best to publish reviews as time allows.)
Interviews: with writers, publishers, and editors who have influenced the way our world reads, writes and thinks. Submit interview project ideas, as well as completed interviews, to our Interviews Editor at cutbankreview@gmail.com.
Visual Art: Submissions should be uploaded as JPEG, TIFF, or PDF files of at least 300 dpi. CutBank welcomes submissions of all types of visual art for online publication. If your work is 3D, we recommend uploading multiple images to feature rotational perspective. Please submit no more than five high quality files and include an artist biography. Artist statements are appreciated but not required. If your piece is accepted, it will likely appear alongside other content. We will contact you with updates regarding selection and where we would like to display your work. Please submit your work through our Submittable page.
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