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CutBank 103 | 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

Poetry by Katie Berta, Rooja Mohassessy, Lynn Wang, Philip Schaefer, and Susan Landgraf

Cover and Interior Art by Nuala McEvoy


CutBank 102 | Winter/Spring 2025

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

Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest Winner, Insley Smullen, and runners-up, Amy Marques and Sara Dudo

Cover and Interior Art by Morgan Binkerd


CutBank 101 | Summer/Fall 2024

Exclusive interview with Debra Magpie Earling.

Poetry by Rebecca Clarren, Donald Mace Williams (Translator), Janée J Baugher, and Libby Leonard.

Fiction by Jake Lancaster, Michael Balatico, and Iván Brave (Translator).

Nonfiction by David Tippetts.

Plus the CutBank Genre Contest Winners and runners-up, William E. Klein, Ruby Hansen Murray, Caitlin Scarano, and Brent Schaeffer

Cover and Interior Art by Vincenxo Cohen.


CutBank 100 | Winter/Spring 2024

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 runners-up Alan Sincic and Elita Suratman.

Cover Art by Janelle “Lulu” Lassalle.


CutBank 99 | Indigenous Writers’ Issue

Poetry by Yael Valencia Aldana, Zaynab Bobi, Laura Da’, Alina Graves, Chris La Tray, Stephanie Lenox, Wilma Mankiller, Rebecca Pelky, Samuel Piccone, and James Welch.

Fiction by Stephen Graham Jones and Timothy Mullaney.

Nonfiction by Stacie Denetsosie, Jen Knox, Casandra López, and Lois Welch.

Cover Art by John Pepion.


CutBank 98 | 50th Anniversary Issue

Poetry by Tyler Kline, James Henry Knippen, Melissa Kwasny, David Moolten, Pádraig Ó Tuama, and Mary Sesso.

Fiction by Michael Caleb Tasker.

Nonfiction by Rachel Attias, Charisse Baldoria, Rose McLarney, and Kathleen Walker.

Author Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama by Kalani Padilla & Erin O’Regan White.

Interior Photography by David Murphy.

Cover Art by Tino Rodríguez.



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Commissary Notes

A Special Issue Featuring the Writing and Artwork of Montana's Incarcerated Youth

This special issue is a collaboration between CutBank Books and the Free Verse Writing Project, an organization founded by MFA students at the University of Montana in 2014. Sponsored by the Missoula Writing Collaborative, Free Verse teaches literature and creative writing classes in juvenile detention centers across Montana. Proceeds from the sale of Commissary Notes will be used to provide copies of this publication to Free Verse and their students.


40 Years of CutBank

Featuring some of the finest writing we've published from CutBank #1 (1973) to #79 (2013).

It's an impressive list of authors, including: Richard Hugo, Rita Dove, Mary Karr, Judy Blunt, Karen Volkman, James Galvin, Mary Ruefle, Patricia Goedicke, Debra Magpie Earling, Henrietta Goodman, Annick Smith, Chris Dombrowski, David Alan Cates, Ed Skoog, Greg Pape, Jane Hirshfield, Jim Harrison, J. Robert Lennon, Kim Barnes, Kim Robert Stafford, Mông-Lan, Richard Hugo, Sandra Alcosser, William Kittredge, and William Stafford, among many, many others.

$25.00


Yes, we have back issues!

CutBank #6 - #97

$5.00

Which Issue(s)? How Many?

CHAPBOOKS


These Kismets

Lisa Beech Hartz

2025 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

Fisk, by Analogy

Julie Marie Wade

2025 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00

Edge of the Sea

Allison Field Bell

2025 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00


Everywhere, Tony Danza

Wendy Oleson

2024 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

Blue Moon Looming

Javier Sandoval

2024 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00

Coming Home

Angela Siew

2024 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00


The Potential of Radio and Rain

Myna Chang

2023 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00






Men with the Throats of Birds

Jordan Escobar

2023 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up

$10.00

Heart of the Lonesome Galaxy

Kate Lucas

2023 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up

$10.00


The Subject Line Reads

Blanche Brown

2022 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

Each Lie that Pollutes the Body

Kevin West

2022 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up

$10.00




Teaching English Lit on the Day After a Shooting

Craig Beaven

2022 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up

$10.00







Musth

Ashwini Bhasi

2020-2021 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

Collective Inventions

Natalie Tombasco

2020-2021 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up

$10.00

The Beginnings of Fire

Geula Geurts

2020-2021 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up

$10.00


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Remember Me: An Essay

Eric LeMay

2019 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

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The Pirate Anne Bonny Dances the Tarantella

Dorsey Craft

2019 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up

$10.00

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Womanskin

Kathryn Merwin

2019 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up

$10.00


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Don’t Give Up On Alan Greenspan

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

2018 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

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Another Bright Departure

Joan Naviyuk Kane

2018 CutBank Chapbook Contest
Runner-Up

$10.00

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What You Have Left Is Me

Kat Williams

2018 CutBank Chapbook Contest
Runner-Up

$10.00


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Weathermanic

James D'Agostino

2017 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

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Many Have Fallen 

Haesong Kwon

2017 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-Up 

$10.00

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No Mark Spiral 

Rainie Oet

2017 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00


Little Violences

Raven Jackson

2016 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

When the Moon Was
Ours for the Taking

Wendell Mayo

2016 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00

Variation on Testimony

Lisa Hiton

2016 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00


Low Village

Daniel Riddle Rodriguez

2015 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

Book of Lake

Nicholas Gulig

2015 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00


Chthonic

John James

2014 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

Candy in Our Brains

Anne Barngrover & Avni Vyas

2014 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00


What They Took Away

Dennis James Sweeney

2013 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

How I See The Humans

Gretchen Vanwormer

2013 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00

I Am Trying to Show You My Matchbook Collection

Andie Francis

2013 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00


Nuclear - Currently Out of Print

Sean Bernard

2012 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

Memory of the Prose Machine

Sandra Doller

2012 CutBank Chapbook Contest Winner

$10.00

Through the Hour Glass

Kristin Hatch

2012 CutBank Chapbook Contest Runner-up

$10.00