Guidelines for Contests and Regular Submissions:
- We read non-contest submissions year-round. Contest submissions have specific reading dates.
- We consider up to five poems or flash fictions (500 words or less) for each submission
- Poems and flash fiction submitted may not have been published elsewhere.
- We accept simultaneous submissions. Please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
Address any questions to:
Michael Malan, Editor
Cloudbank, PO Box 610,
Corvallis, Oregon 97339-0610
or michael@cloudbankbooks.com
Cloudbank editors seek a wide range of styles, approaches, forms, and aesthetics.
Please submit up to five poems, your name and address should appear on each page.
We are happy to accept simultaneous submissions, but please so let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
Two contributors’ copies will be sent to writers whose work appears in the journal.
Please submit up to five pieces of flash fiction (no more than 500 words per piece); your name and address should appear on each page.
We are happy to accept simultaneous submissions, but please so let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
Two contributors’ copies will be sent to writers whose work appears in the magazine.
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Constellation by H. L. Hix s the winner of the Vern Rutsala Book Prize for 2023.
Praise for the book:
Constellation is poetry on a larger scale than we are used to, an extraordinary combination of memory and meditation, precise and personal, ritualistic, soaring, by turns, with eloquence, erudition, candor. In both rich and allusive verse, and prose with poetic charge, the work draws you in and won’t let you forget the vivid motifs and variations that repeat as in an oratorio, often playful, in the idioms of today, while touching the timeless and magnificent.
—Robert Mortgan, author of Dark Energy
The Scarecrow Alibis, poems by Denver Butson, is the winner of Cloudbank’s 2022 Vern Rutsala Book Prize. Zoë Ryder White writes: “The Scarecrow Alibis reads like a love letter to the blundering, persistently tender self.” “Praise by Ilya Kaminsky includes “What a terrific imagination! What verve! . . . . I love this work,.”
The author has four previous poetry collections and two books with visual artists. Featured on National Public Radio, in the Library of Congress’s Poetry 180 curated by Billy Collins, and in dozens of journals and anthologies, Butson lives in Brooklyn with is wife and daughter. He frequently collaborates with musicians and visual and performing artists
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Deep Territory is a book of poems by Cloudbank Editor Michael Malan. Praise for this book includes this comment by Robert Morgan, author of Dark Energy: “There is a special sense of kinship and community inMichael Malan’s poems: trees, streams, clouds, horses, and horizons. All things are alert, articulate, and time in touch with the timeless.”