2025 Chapbook Contest Winners
Congratulations to our chapbook contest winners and finalists. It is no exaggeration that this year’s contest submissions were truly incredible, challenging our editors and readers with some difficult choices! Thank you to all of the brilliant writers who submitted their chapbooks this year. We hope you will trust us with your work again in the future.
Now to announce this year’s winners,
Winner, Tricks by D. A. Powell
Runner-up, American Apple Men by Daniel Uncapher
Runner-up, Heavens to Betsy by Robert Long Foreman
And our finalists,
The Sunset Street by Lindsey Warren | GAY POEM WITH BIRD by Slater By The Sea | Derecho Diary by Becca Klaver | Advent by Lenna Mendoza | Source: Sorceress by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White | Anadromous Fish of the Farmington River by Michael Pontacoloni | Vacuuming At Night by Jacob Aiello | We begin by sleeping, then climbing to the surface by Michelle Meier | Attack Scene with Birds by Shari Caplan | Take, Eat: An Essay by Hannah Markley
Stay tuned for the release of our 2025 chapbooks, release date TBA.
CutBank 103 | Order now!
Summer/Fall 2025
Exclusive Interview with Amy Leach
Montana Prize in Fiction Winner, Jeff Guay, and Runner-up, Christopher A. Walker
Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry Winner, Laura Post, and Runner-up, Heather Bourbeau
Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction Winner, Emily Rose Soreghan, and Runner-up, Maureen Stanton
Interior Art by Nuala McEvoy
Poetry by Katie Berta, Rooja Mohassessy, Lynn Wang, Philip Schaefer, and Susan Landgraf
Cover Art by Nuala McEvoy, “Magic Space City”
$10.00, plus $3.00 shipping and handling
CutBank 102
Winter/Spring 2025
Featuring:
Exclusive Interview with Heid E. Erdrich
Poetry by Michelle Patton, Jen Frantz, Temperance Aghamohammadi, Jake Arrowtop, Michael Lavers, and Rebecca Faulkner
Fiction by Brian J. Buchanan and Andreas Trolf
Nonfiction by Sasha Ree Wohlpart, Diane Zinna, and Don Lago
Translation by Yujing Liang
Interior Art by Morgan Binkerd
Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest Winner, Insley Smullen
Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest Runners-up, Amy Marques and Sara Dudo
Cover Art by Morgan Binkerd, “Like a riverbed, like roots, like veins, like a forgotten incantation I’ll spend my whole life trying to remember”
$10.00, plus $3.00 shipping and handling
2024-25 Chapbooks
Lisa Beech Hartz: 2024-25 Chapbook Contest Winner These Kismets (poetry)
Allison Field Bell: 2024-25 Chapbook Contest Runner-Up for Edge of the Sea (nonfiction/essays)
Julie Marie Wade: 2024-25 Chapbook Contest Runner-Up for Fisk, by Analogy (nonfiction/essay)
CutBank 101
Summer/Fall 2024
Featuring:
Exclusive interview with Debra Magpie Earling.
Poetry by Janée J. Baugher, Rebecca Clarren, Libby Leonard, and Brent Schaeffer.
Fiction by Michael Balatico and Jake Lancaster.
Nonfiction by David Tippetts.
Translation by Iván Brave and Donald Williams.
Interior art by Vincenzo Cohen.
Patricia Goedicke Poetry Prize winner, Caitlin Scarano, Montana Fiction Prize winner William E. Klein, and Montana Nonfiction Prize winner Ruby Murray Hansen.
Cover Art: “Eland’s Third Dimensions” by Vincenzo Cohen.
$10.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling.
CutBank 100
Winter/Spring 2024
Featuring:
Exclusive interview with Lidia Yuknavitch.
Poetry by Joseph Byrd, Isha Camara, Patrick Holian, and Mickey Kennedy.
Fiction by Janelle Bassett, Max Kruger- Dull, and Thea Swanson.
Nonfiction by Lauren Fath and Angela Townsend.
Interior art by Eli Boveroux.
Big Sky, Small Prose contest winner, Julia LoFaso, and runner-ups Alan Sincic and Elita Suratman.
Cover Art, “Lose Yourself,” by Janelle “Lulu” Lassalle
$10.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling.
CutBank 99 | First Ever Indigenous Writers’ Issue
Smmer/Autumn 2023
Featuring:
Poetry by Wilma Mankiller, James Welch, Alina Graves, Rebecca Pelky, Samuel Piccone, Yael Valencia Aldana, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Stephanie Lenox, Laura Da’, and Chris LaTray.
Fiction by Timothy Mullaney and Stephen Graham Jones.
Nonfiction by Lois Welch, Stacie Denetsosie, Jen Knox, and Casandra López.
Notes from Mankiller Poems by Frances McCue and Greg Shaw.
Cover Art by John Pepion
$10.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling.