Countdown for CutBank #100: Today we're featuring Joseph Byrd (@seppilintu), whose forthcoming poem "Catastases" features spare yet haunting lines such as: "...Waiting to say things that I/haven't said to you after waiting to say things." To order: cutbankonline.org

CutBank #100 countdown, day 2: Today's featured writer is Thea Swanson (@thea_swanson), whose short story "Sky Dream" found a home in #100. Our editors loved its tenderness, which starts: "There is a small hole in the upper chamber of Cheryl's heart." cutbankonline.org

CutBank #100 countdown, day 3: NMHU English Professor Lauren Fath's essay "Cherries" starts: "On the last day of classes, in early May, smoke blackens the skies above campus, billows over my small New Mexico town, sends a flurry of ash floating down." cutbankonline.org

CutBank 100 Countdown, day 4: Poet Mickie Kennedy's (@mickiepoet ), poem, "Returning to the Circus," is featured in our 100th issue. Here are the first two lines of the first stanza: "The acrobat stands on a ledge/overlooking the crowd." Order your copy: cutbankonline.org

CutBank 100 Countdown, day 5: Max Kruger-Dull's (maxkrygerdull.com, @mkrugs92 ) short story "On Schedule" shows its inherent and well-crafted tension from the first sentence: "And then I forget to dust the TV, so Caleb does." To order: cutbankonline.org

CutBank 100 countdown, day 6: Poet Patrick Holian's (Patrick Martin Holian, Ph.D.) poem "Sky Dungeon" captivated this year's poetry editors from the first line, which reads: "I ground the peaches into lasers, I fought a limo in a stream" cutbankonline.org

IT'S HERE! Get your gorgeous copy, with "Lose Yourself" cover image by Janelle "Lulu" Lassalle (Janelle "Lulu" Lassalle ), on our website: cutbankonline.org

This year's CutBank EiC, Jenny Rowe (Jenny Rowe), just graduated with her MFA in creative nonfiction and is heading up to Glacier NP for a few days to celebrate! Emails, online orders, and issue 100 contributor posts will resume on Thursday, May 16th. Thank you everyone!

We just mailed a record-breaking 17 packages of CutBank 100 today! (Granted, Jenny Rowe was on vacation for 2 weeks, but it's still impressive, right?!) Will mail more and update online orders with tracking orders tomorrow, and planning to resume the promo posts tomorrow, too!

Today we celebrate Angela Townsend (Angela), whose essay "Incompatible" appears in our 100th issue. It starts: "'Incompatible with life.' You hear this phrase in my line of work. At the animal refuge, arrivals are often on the brink of departure." Order online today!

In today's post, we celebrate writer Janelle Bassett, whose short story "The Last Jackie" completes our 100th issue. We knew we had to publish this piece from its opening sentence: "Vi looks at her white-clad ass in the hotel mirror." Marvelous! To read more, order #100 online!

It's almost the end of May, believe it or not, and with it comes the end of CutBank 's annual chapbook contest--submit your poetry or prose manuscript to us before next Friday! Find us on Submittable: cutbank.submittable.com/submit

As we wrap up our annual chapbook contest TODAY, please help us celebrate our final chapbook of 2024, C0MING HOME by Angela Siew (Angela Siew )! We have lots of copies of #100, too, which include our BSSP winner Julia LoFaso and runner-ups Elita Suratman and Alan Sincic. 🎉

It's June and time for Jenny Rowe (Jenny Rowe ) to pass on the EiC position to her marvelous creative nonfiction peer, Hillary Foreman. 🎉 Hillary brings a wealth of editorial experience from her time at Ohio University, and we can't wait to see what she'll do for CutBank!

We are SO excited to share this with you--now that our 100th issue has been out in the world for a few weeks, we thought it was time to share our interview with lidia yuknavitch on our website! Interview: cutbankonline.org/12823-intervie… To order your copy: cutbankonline.org/print-1

It's almost here! The CutBank editors are nearly done with issue 101 and invite you to look at our marvelous contributors and preorder--more to come soon! cutbankonline.org

We haven't forgotten about issue 101 and hope you haven't, either! It's been a slow summer with some unexpected delays, but our Summer/Fall issue should be out by September! Thank you for your patience, especially to our marvelous contributors (sneek peak of our ToC here 🎉👀)

We're excited for CutBank 101 soon! Today's featured contributor, Jake Lancaster, Jake B Lancaster, has a short story called "Iron Butterfly" in 101 that starts: "It was a Tuesday, maybe a Thursday. The rain was all mean and loud and straight down." cutbankonline.org

Today we want to shout out to 101 contributor Rebecca Clarren, whose featured poem "High Country News, Paonia, Colorado," starts: "First jobs are bad haircuts." We immediately wanted to read more. Our newest issue is on its way--order your copy on our website!