CutBank is pleased to announce the Montana Prize in
Fiction, the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and the Patricia Goedicke
Prize in Poetry.
We
are honored to have three talented judges participating in the second year of these contests. The Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry
will be judged by Noah Eli Gordon. Joy Williams will select the winner
of the Montana Prize in Fiction. The winner of the Montana Prize in
Creative Nonfiction will be selected by Brian Bouldrey.
Submissions are accepted December 1 through February 29. Winners
receive $500 and publication in CutBank 71. All submissions will be considered for publication in CutBank.
The contests' $13 entry fee includes a one-year, two-issue subscription to CutBank, beginning with the prize issue, CutBank 71.
Please
send only your best work. With all three of these awards, we are
seeking to highlight work that showcases an authentic voice, a boldness
of form, and a rejection of functional fixedness.
FULL GUIDELINES:
Submissions postmarked earlier than December 1, 2008 or later than February 29,
2009 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. Prose writers, please
send only a single work of no greater than 40 printed pages. 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, 2009.
One winner in each genre, as chosen by our guest judges, will receive a $500 award
and publication in CutBank 71, 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 71 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.
