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CutBank

Publisher’s description: We’re immensely proud of CutBank’s thirty-five years as Montana’s foremost literary magazine, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana and helmed initially by favorite literary son William Kittredge. We publish two issues a year of compelling poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction by established writers and new voices alike. We’re global in scope, but with a regional bias. Over the years, we’ve been privileged to feature work by Wendell Berry, Louise Erdrich, Richard Hugo, Seamus Heaney, Chris Offutt, Virgil Suarez, Aimee Bender, and a number of other writers whose work we’re fond of. That’s the joy, we think, of both publishing and reading a publication like CutBank—discovering work one is fond of.

“Everything about this magazine intrigues—its look, the art, the poetry, the fiction . . . Who could ask for more?”
— Literary Magazine Review

Recent issues:

71, Summer 2009 - The Montana Prize in Fiction winner, selected by guest judge Joy Williams, is Taylor Brown’s short story "Rider." Commentary by Joy Williams on "Rider" is featured in the issue. The Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction winner, selected by guest judge Brian Bouldrey, is Josie Milliken’s essay "Seven Tangents of Space and Distance." The Patricia Goedicke Prize winner, selected by guest judge Noah Eli Gordon, is Mande Zecca's untitled piece.

70, Winter 2009 features fiction by Ingrid Satelmajer, Justin Quarry, and Daniel Doehr, creative nonfiction by Rebekah Beall, and poetry by Carlos Villacorta, Olivie Clare, Haines Eason, Michael Peterson and Cara Benson. Our Winter 2009 issue also showcases photographs by Missoula's Aimee Lewis.