Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts

11/23/2024

HELLO, WONDERFUL WRITERS! There are only 8 days left to submit your best writing to CUTTHROAT's 20TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: TAKING LIBERTIES: WRITERS RESPOND TO THE ELECTION, TO SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND TO WAR & ITS CONSEQUENCES. Here is your forum to speak and to be heard! We will not be silenced. Submit your finest for the 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize (judged by Elise Paschen) and the 2024 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize (judged by Pam Houston). The deadline is November 30th. We will publish this anthology in March 2025 and will take it to the AWP Conference in Los Angeles. WE WANT TO PUBLISH YOUR WORK! PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! THANK YOU!
SUBMIT AT: www.cutthroatmag.com

10/25/2024

Because of the angst and furor surrounding this most important presidential election, Cutthroat is extending the deadline to November 15th for submissions to the fabulous 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest judged by esteemed Osage poet and anthologist Elise Paschen and the stellar 2024 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Contest judged by Pam Houston, whose most necessary book is WITHOUT EXCEPTION from Torrey House Press. 1st Place in our contests wins $1200 and publication. 2nd Prize wins $500 and publication. Honorable Mention in both genres are published. All finalists are considered for publication. We are also open for regular submissions in poetry, short story and nonfiction. Don't miss this opportunity to be published in our big 20th Anniversary anthology, TAKING LIBERTIES: WRITERS RESPOND TO SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AS WELL AS TO WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES due out in March 2025! WE WANT TO PUBLISH YOUR WORK! Reading fees cover the costs of Submittable fees and monies for the prizes. NONE OF THE EDITORS ARE PAID. SEND YOUR BEST TODAY! www.cutthroatmag.com
PLEASE SHARE THIS WIDELY!

10/13/2024

There are only 7 more days left to submit your beautiful writing to the 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and the 2023 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize. We are greatly honored that Osage poet Elise Paschen is judging the Joy Harjo Poetry Contest and Pam Houston is judging the Barry Lopez Nonfiction Contest. 1ST PRIZE in each genre receives $1200 and publication, 2ND PRIZE receives $500 and publication and Honorable Mention receives publication. We are also reading regular submissions. We want to read and publish your work! Go to www.cutthroatmag.com to submit your best writing! All winners and the honorable mention will be published in TAKING LIBERTIES: WRITERS RESPOND TO SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AS WELL AS TO WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, our 20th Anniversary anthology due out in Spring 2025.

10/03/2024

I'll be speaking on a panel today at 11 a.m. at the Western Literature Association with novelist Laura Pritchett and Brenda Lampear about the evolution of nature/eco/eco justice writing from a publisher's view. I'll talk about Cutthroat and the anthologies THROUGH THE ASH, NEW LEAVES and THE NATURE OF NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE. The conference is at El Conquistador in Oro Valley just north of Tucson. One of its focuses is environmental literature. If you're at the conference, stop by! I'd love to meet you.

09/12/2024

Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts is currently reading for the 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and the 2024 Barry Lopez Nonfiction. We are also reading regular submissions for poetry, short stories and nonfiction. We want to read and publish your work. Our deadline is November 1st. All pieces that are accepted will be included in our 2 year project: TAKING LIBERTIES: WRITERS RESPOND TO SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AS WELL AS TO WAR AND ITS EFFECTS. This project will be a print anthology which is our 20th Anniversary Issue. We will be taking this to AWP in Los Angeles. Here are the guidelines.

2024 THE JOY HARJO POETRY PRIZE
AND THE BARRY LOPEZ NONFICTION PRIZE:
$1200 1st and $500 2nd, Publication Honorable Mention
AUGUST 1, 2024-NOVEMBER 1, 2024
SUBMIT ONLINE AT http://www.cutthroatmag.com
at the bottom of the Submissions page
Final Judges: Elise Paschen, Joy Harjo Poetry Prize
Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize TBA
Submit 3 poems (100 line limit per poem) or nonfiction (4000 word limit) any topic, any style. Authors name must not appear on the ms. Blind judging. $25 reading fee. Winners announced by Dec. 31, 2021. Submit as often as you like in any genre. Send your best writing! Friends, colleagues and students of
judges are ineligible to enter. All prize winners and honorable mentions are published. We recommend reading a copy of Cutthroat before you submit.
Congratulations to last year’s winners: “I Remain Unequal to the Wind”by Richard Westheimer, 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize (Judge: dg nanouk okpik); “Finchs Cow,” by Conor Madigan, 2020 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize (Judge: Manuel Munoz); and “A Story of Silence” by Karen Auvinen, 2020 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize (Judge: CMarie Fuhrman).

08/29/2024

Today I'll walk along the river. Everything is in motion from the flocks of Canada geese flying at night to mule deer walking down Bayfield's quiet streets to the bears stuffing themselves with choke cherries on Arrowhead Mesa to the explosion of jack rabbits we see every morning on our hike to the flocks of redwinged blackbirds readying for their journeys south. This seasonal hinge makes my heart and mind and spirit restless, probably my nomad ancestors speaking in my blood.

But, today, I have the happiest news which will keep me at my desk most of the weekend--I received my galleys for BLOOD FLOWER from Red Hen Press. Bless Mark Cull for getting them to me last night. Red Hen is reprinting three of my out-of-print books of poems, beginning with BLOOD FLOWER! I am delighted this book of poems, my heart book about my immigrant family will be available soon. Thank you, Mark! Thank you, Red Hen Press!

Here is the cover image painted by my sister Judi Uschuk-Stahl who passed from this earth in 2015.

08/20/2024

I'm very sad to hear that Sandra McPherson has passed. Just got the news. Tomorrow I'll post one of her poems. She was married to my very good friend Walter Pavlich. And, she was a wonderful poet.

08/02/2024

Happy 100th Birthday, James Baldwin, where ever you are in the Universe. Thank you for your brilliance, your courage, tenacity and for widening our sight and understanding. Your writing changed the world. I am about 3/4 way finished with Another Country. Here is Dick Cavette's interview with Baldwin. Cavette
was so naive, trying to whitewash what was going on and still goes on in this racist, homophobic, sexist world.

James Baldwin has an open discussion of racial prejudice, civil rights activism and policing.Date aired - 5/16/1969 - James Baldwin ...

07/26/2024

Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts is open for submissions to CT 29, our 20th Anniversary Issue called TAKING LIBERTIES: WRITERS RESPOND TO RECENT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AS WELL AS TO WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. We will open the portal on Submittable on August 1st and read until November 1st. Stay tuned!

07/15/2024

Thank you, Dee Cohen, for conducting this interview and publishing it in SENSES.

Writing poetry “ignites profound emotions” in Tucson poet Pamela Uschuk. “It moves me to an ecstatic state, to passion, whether it be outrage or desire, longing, grief or transcendence.” She is an ardent social-justice and wilderness advocate, creating vibrant metaphors in her work that draw...

06/28/2024

Do Not Accept Friendship Requests from William Pitt.Root Jr This is a troll posing as William Root. I have tried to turn him into Face Book. If you receive a weird message or request for money from him, please turn him in to Face Book!

06/26/2024

Hi, dear friends. The Cutthroat staff, including me, is on a much needed break. I am recovering from teaching, travel and being ill. We will resume our correspondence and business and reading submissions by August. Thank you for your patience as we recoup. You can still order copies of the terrific, CT 28 THE NATURE OF NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE, and we will get those out in the mail to you promptly. We will begin our reading period for our 2024 contests the first of August. Cutthroat 29, TAKING LIBERTIES, is due out in 2025, which will be our 20th Anniversary year. We'll reopen reading for that issue in August also. Have a lovely summer!

06/10/2024

What a way to start a birthday--a beautiful high country rain storm right in the middle of my birthday party tonight! My birthday world smells delicious. Tomorrow I'm going hiking on the West Fork of the San Juan River near Wolf Creek Pass. One of my favorite places.

06/08/2024

My birthday is in two days. It's been a challenging year, and as I prepare for a new year, I humbly ask you to donate to Cutthroat for my birthday. It's a great journal. We are totally independent and rely on donations to continue our important work, speaking truth to power, fighting the good fights for human rights and for wilderness and for animals and for dignity. We have published so many ofyou. Help us pay our mounting bills as costs for printing, shipping, web services, Submittable, advertising, etc. go up. None of the editors, including me, get paid a penny. THANK YOU, my friends. No donation is too small.

Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts is in its 18th year. We are totally independent and rely… Pam Uschuk needs your support for Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts

06/08/2024

Dearest friends, I leave Gunnison for Bayfield and home this morning. This Storycatchers Writers Conference has been magic. A tempetuous microburst that turned into a tornado of dust and wind scouring the valley, dropping temps and blowing open the doors of my workshop/craft lecture in Crested Butte yesterday, completely changed the course of my writing prompt and discussion. And, everyone wrote from that dramatic charged energy. I'm still reeling from it and the power of the writings!

Thank you Brenda, Karen, Matt, Steve, Max, Jess, Sami, Lindsey, David, Chris, and everyone who attended the workshop yesterday.

06/06/2024

I'm having a wonderful time at this Storycatcher Writers Workshop--Karen Auvinen was fabulous last night reading an emotional and beautifully written essay about when her mountain cabin burned to the ground. She was the 2023 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize-winner so I was able to hand her a $1200 check for that. So many terrific writers here in Gunnison, including Haesong Kwan, Rilla Askew, and J.C. Hallman. I feel lucky to be here among all this beauty. On my walk this morning in the Tamichi River Park, I saw and heard lazuli buntings, tree sparrows, MacGuilvery's warblers, yellow warblers, a solitary thrush, red-winged blackbirds, ravens, Western wood p*e wee, song sparrows, a canyon wren.

My birthday is coming up on Monday. If you would like to and are able, my wish for my birthday is that you donate to Cutthroat, a lit. journal that does so much to promote diversity, equity, human rights, animal rights, wilderness and so much more. All our editors work without recompense. All donations go to printing, web service, submittable service, and every other expense we incur just to publish people like you. Thank you so much. Here is a link to donate! This is my birthday party!

Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts is in its 18th year. We are totally independent and rely… Pam Uschuk needs your support for Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts

06/04/2024

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