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Cutthroat

A Journal of the Arts

P.O. Box 2414

Durango, CO 81302

Phone: 970-903-7914

E-mail: cutthroatmag@gmail.com

ISSN: 74470 27500 Founded: 2005 Issues per year: 1 Copy price: $15 Average pages: 130 Sample price (postpaid): $15 Subscription (individuals): 2 issues/$22 Subscription (institutions): $12

Publisher's description: We publish high-quality poetry and short fiction from well-known as well as previously unpublished authors. We offer two literary prizes yearly: The Joy Harjo Poetry Award and The Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Award. First place winners receive $1250 plus publication/second place receive $250 plus publication. We also publish the Honorable Mentions in both genres. In 2006, our judges are Naomi Shihab Nye and Robert Olen Butler. See our website or send an SASE for complete guidelines. Besides prizes, we also feature a “Discovery Poet.” Our contributors include Fred Chappell, Rick DeMarinis, Joy Harjo, Doug Frelke, Rebecca Seiferle, Naomi Shihab Nye, Dorianne Laux, Marvin Bell, Richard Jackson, Maj Ragain, Kelly Cherry, Jeff Friedman, etc. Our staff includes, Pamela Uschuk, Editor-In-Chief, William Pitt Root, Poetry Editor and Donley Watt, Short Fiction Editor.

Recent issues:

Number 4
Features exciting new work by Joy Harjo, Luis Alberto Urrea, Michael Blumenthal, Melissa Kwasny, Michael Schiavone, James Hoggard, Bryce Milligan, Rusty Harris, Michael Rattee, and Patricia Smith, book reviews, plus translations from the Romanian poet, Mircea Ivanescu, by Adam Sorkin and Lidia Vianu. 180 pages/$15.

Number 2
In our second issue, we feature such fine writers as Michael Waters, Naomi Shihab Nye, Richard Jackson, Rebecca Seiferle, Andrei Coderscu, Peter Christopher, Harry Humes, Lowell Jaegar and the winners of the 2006 Joy Harjo Poetry and the Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Awards.