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Missoula! We are thrilled to invite you to a reading with D. A. Powell, our 2025 Chapbook Contest Winner and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, among many other honors.

D. A. will read this Saturday, May 16 at 6pm at the wonderful

We will have his chapbook for sale and will be there to sell some of his older titles. has made an incredible broadside of one of the new poems from Tricks, which we can’t wait to share.

Come enjoy a night of poetry and community and support your local small presses and bookstore!

Less than one month left to submit your chapbook manuscript to CutBank’s 2026 contest. We want prose, we want poetry, we want the strangest hybrid work you have. Send it our way before May 31! We can’t wait to read your work.

Tomorrow! We’ll have chapbooks and journals for sale, postcards to hand out, and editors excited to chat. Come by and see us, Missoula friends!

Tomorrow! Missoula friends, come support CutBank 75 author Gabriel Furshong, reading from his new poetry chapbook, Surrounding the Country a Chasm, winner of the 2025 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize.

Shakespeare & Co. April 9. 7 pm. See you there!

We are still riding high on the incredible interactions we had at our bookfair table with past, current, and future contributors. We hope all who bought books and broadsides enjoy them—your support of our writers and collective work means the world. Submit your work! Chapbook submissions are open now through May 31.

See you in Chicago 2027!

Here it is! Here it is! Our team was thrilled to unbox CutBank 104 together at our weekly reading party.

Thanks for the fantastic space and sustenance. Thanks to for these gorgeous journals. Thanks to our fabulous team who worked so hard and faithfully to put 104 together, to 104’s incredible contributors, and to all who submitted! We received an unprecedented number of submissions this year and have been delighted by the difficulty of choosing which to publish. If you haven’t heard from us yet, you will soon.

Until then, catch a copy of CutBank 104 at AWP! Booth 248

Jean Marie Hackett’s story “Maybe You Should Start Drinking” is at turns hilarious and heart-wrenching. We are so excited to share it with you, along with all pf the stunning work in CutBank 104. link to pre-order in bio

**LAST DAY TO SUBMIT!**

Our general and genre contest submissions end tonight at 11:59 pm MST. Send us your hottest, most brilliant work. We can’t wait to read it and add to our 53-years-full shelves 🩶

In honor of Cutbank 45, we at Cutbank Literary Magazine want to remind you that there are only ten days left in our 2025-26 general submission period, as well as our Genre Contests’ submission window. So, get out there and submit! All of us at Cutbank Literary Magazine are excited to read your work!

2025 saw the pleasure of publishing six chapbooks, the winners from both the 2024 and 2025 chapbook contests.

Submissions opened today for the 2026 contest—we can’t wait to read your work!

2025/2025
These Kismets by Lisa Beech Hartz
Edge of the Sea by
Fisk, by Analogy by

2025/2026
Tricks by D. A. Powell
American Pomology by
Heavens to Betsy by

Genre Contests Open tomorrow, December 1st.

Here are the judges!

Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction: Danielle Zaccagnino is a teacher, writer, and new mother. Her first book, Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This In August, is available from Mason Jar Press. Her writing appears in Diagram, Waxwing, ANMLY, and Puerto del Sol. She is the EIC of Fast Flesh Literary Journal (www.fastflesh.net).

Montana Prize in Fiction: Renée Branum.

Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry:
Ruth Awad.

We are excited to receive your submissions for these prizes!