We are thrilled to announce the judge of our 2023 Big Sky, Small Prose Contest: Micah Fields!
Submissions Open: September 15 - October 15
Micah Fields has published essays and photography for the Oxford American, Gulf Coast, The Baffler, Columbia Journalism Review, Field & Stream, Sonora Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, War, Literature & the Arts, and elsewhere. He holds a BA from the University of Montana and an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa. He received the Oxford American’s 2018-19 Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, and the AWP Intro Journals Award in nonfiction. He served as a Marine Corps infantry rifleman from 2007 to 2011 and is a combat veteran of deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives in Helena, Montana, where he writes, teaches, and works as a fly-fishing guide on the Missouri River. We Hold Our Breath, his book about Houston is out now.
Big Sky, Small Prose: Flash Contest
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Submissions must be previously unpublished.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, provided that you 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 98. Two runners-up will be awarded $50 and publication in CutBank 98. All other submissions will be considered with submissions for the print edition of CutBank literary magazine.