Announcing the 2022-23 Genre Contest Judges

We are pleased to announce the judges of our 2022-23 poetry and nonfiction contests.

The submission window has been extended until February 7, 2023.

Montana Prize in Fiction: Sterling HolyWhiteMountain

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation. His work has appeared in Montana Quarterly, ESPN.com, The Yellow Medicine Review, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker. He's currently a Jones lecturer at Stanford University, and is at work on a novel. He is an unrecognized citizen of the Blackfeet Nation.

Click here to submit to the 2022-23 Montana Prize in Fiction

Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction Judge: Joni Tevis

Joni Tevis is the author of two books of essays, most recently The World Is On Fire. Her work has been honored with two Pushcart Prizes and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She serves as the Bennette E. Geer Professor of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.

Click here to submit to the 2022-23 Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction.

Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry Judge: JP Grasser

A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, JP Grasser holds a PhD from the University of Utah, where he edited Quarterly West. His work was recognized with the inaugural Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize from the Academy of American Poets and with Frontier Poetry's 2019 Open Prize, among other honors and awards. He currently serves as an associate editor for 32 Poems and lives in Montana's Bitterroot Valley with his wife and their three horses.

Click here to submit to the 2022-23 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry.


CutBank Genre Contests

What We're Looking For 

Thought-provoking, well-crafted fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Whether your writing is classic or genre-defying, send us your most captivating work. 

Submission Guidelines

  • Submissions will be accepted only through the Submittable submission manager. Print or email submissions will not be considered. Please include a brief cover letter, biography, and contact information in the form provided. Please do not include identifying information in the body of your submission.

  • Submissions must be previously unpublished.

  • Simultaneous submissions are certainly welcome, provided that you withdraw your CutBank submission immediately via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.

  • Submissions should be double spaced, no more than five poems and/or 35 pages.

  • The $20 contest entry fee covers the reading of a single submission in a single genre. Please send only a single work of no greater than 35 pages or five poems. Writers are permitted to submit in multiple genres, but please submit only once per genre.

  • One winner in each genre will receive a $500 honorarium, publication in the print issue of CutBank 99, and one contributor’s copy of CutBank 99.