Sunday, September 12, 2021

Writing Competitions: CutBank

Submissions Open: August 16 - September 30

Award: $500 first place prize and publication in CutBank 94. Two runners-up will be awarded $50 and publication in CutBank 94. All other submissions will be considered with submissions for the print edition of CutBank.

What We're Looking For: Interesting, compelling fiction and nonfiction prose in 750 words or fewer. Lyric essays, prose poems, short essays, vignettes - send us your best, most dazzling short form prose.

Submission Guidelines:
  • Submissions will be accepted 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  • Submissions must be previously unpublished.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; however, please withdraw your CutBank submission immediately via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.

  • Submissions should be double spaced, no more than 750 words.

  • Submission fee of $7 includes consideration for CutBank's $500 flash prose prize and publication in CutBank 94. Two runners-up will be awarded $50 and publication in CutBank 94. All other submissions will be considered with submissions for the print edition of CutBank Literary Magazine.

Daryl Scroggins will be judging this year's Flash contest. He has taught creative writing and literature at The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of North Texas, and the Writer’s Garret, in Dallas. He now lives in Marfa, Texas. His fictions, poems, and creative non-fictions have appeared in magazines and anthologies around the country and abroad, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Blink-Ink, Carolina Quarterly, CutBank, Dime Show Review, Egress, Fiction Southeast, Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, KYSO Flash, New Flash Fiction Review, New York Tyrant, Northwest Review, Quick Fiction, and The Portland Review. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize several times, his flash fiction and prose poems have also won a number of contests and awards. He is the author of several poetry and fiction chapbooks, as well as Winter Investments, a collection of stories (Trilobite Press), and This Is Not the Way We Came In, a collection of flash fiction and a flash novel (Ravenna Press). One of his microfictions was reprinted in Flash Fiction International (2015; in the Flash Theory section), and another microfiction has been included in Best Microfiction 2020.

Submit your work here.

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