CutBank

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.

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

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