CutBank Print Edition
Submission Guidelines
Electronic submissions open from September 15 to February 1.
For the print editions of CutBank, we accept poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art submissions. Please only submit online through Submittable; email submissions will be deleted. We now charge a $5 reading fee for online submissions, which goes toward paying our contributors for their work.
Those without access to Submittable, may mail us paper submissions sans fee. All paper manuscripts must include a cover letter with your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. If you’d like to receive our decision by mail, your submission must be accompanied by a postage-paid and self-addressed return envelope. If you would prefer to receive notice of our decision via email (and forgo a return of your manuscript), please indicate this preference in your cover letter. Submissions should be addressed to:
CutBank
The University of Montana
Department of English, Liberal Arts 101
32 Campus Drive
Missoula, MT 59812
We encourage you to read CutBank before submitting. Sample issues are available here for $10, one-year subscriptions for $17.
Submit unpublished, original work, and include a cover letter (in the designated space) with a brief biography and contact information. Please do not include your contact information or biography in the document. Multiple submissions are welcome.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but we ask that you withdraw your work immediately via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere. Poets please email us if an individual poem in your submission becomes unavailable, and add a note in Submittable detailing the change.
We aim to respond to submissions within six months. Contributors will be paid $50 per piece.
FICTION should be double-spaced, in a conventional, readable font such as 12 point Times New Roman. We are unable to read unsolicited submissions of more than 8,500 words.
NONFICTION should be double-spaced, in a conventional, readable font such as 12 point Times New Roman. We are unable to read unsolicited submissions of more than 8,500 words.
POEMS should be uploaded as one file, with page breaks between poems. We accept up to five poems per submission. To withdraw your entire submission, use Submittable. To withdraw part of your submission, add a note in Submittable detailing which poems are no longer available.
VISUAL ART should be uploaded as JPEG, TIFF, or PDF files of at least 300 dpi. CutBank welcomes submissions of all types of visual art for publication in our upcoming print edition. If your work is 3D, we recommend uploading multiple images to feature rotational perspective. Please submit no more than five high quality files. Submit unpublished, original work, and include a cover letter (in the designated space) with a brief biography and contact information. Artist statements are appreciated but not required. If your piece is accepted, it may be used in the print edition, online features, or as cover art. We will contact you with updates regarding selection and where we would like to display your work. You can submit through Submittable with the button below or send work directly to cutbankarts@gmail.com.
Every piece will be read by an editor as well as an enthusiastic, trained pool of readers. Reading your work is the most exciting part of our jobs, and we’re happy to say the majority of our content for CutBank comes from unsolicited submissions. Our greatest joy is discovering new voices. We appreciate the opportunity to read your work!