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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!

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!

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

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!