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 16 (DEADLINE EXTENDED TWO WEEKS), 2023-24, judged by Christine Byl

  • The Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction
    December 1 - February 16 (DEADLINE EXTENDED TWO WEEKS), 2023-24, judged by Toni Jensen

  • The Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry
    December 1 - February 16 (DEADLINE EXTENDED TWO WEEKS), 2023-24, judged by Christina Olson

  • The Annual CutBank Chapbook Contest
    January 1 - May 31

  • The Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest
    September 15 - October 15th

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All Accounts and Mixture: A Celebration of LGBTQ Writers and Artists: UPDATE:
Sadly, we lacked the staffing in 2023 to run this contest, but we’re hoping to bring it back in 2024! If you submitted to this contest in 2022 or ‘23, please reach out to editor.cutbank@gmail.com to receive a no-fee submission link to the genre of your choice. 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. Details here.

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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