Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts

03/18/2025

This powerful anthology features 112 writers and their writings of resistance. This 414 page book is perfect to teach from or give as a gift. Spread the word! Buy several and spread the resistance. Published with special thank you to the Black Earth Institute. It is just $30 and can be pre-ordered at www.cuttthroatmag.com

Contributors include:
Doug Anderson, Lily Andrews, Toni Artuso, Karen Auvinen, Jamaica Baldwin, Aliki Barnstone, Kate Bell, Margo Berdeshevsky, Ann Bergeron, Frank Bergon, Mikela Bjork, Rebecca G. Biber, Karen Brennan, B.J. Buckley, Simmons Buntin, Randy Bynum, Carmen Calatayud, Barbara Calson, paul catafago, Teresa Mei Chuc (Tuệ Mỹ Chúc), Glenda Conway, Kira Córdova, Dinah Cox, Michael Cullinane, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Carol Dorf, Rita Dove, Anita Endrezze, Martín Espada, Katie Farris, Ron Fundingsland, Keith Flynn, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Cynthia Foley, Carolyn Forché, CMarie Fuhrman, Jerry Gates, Teri Hairston, Joy Harjo, Colleen S. Harris, Mary Beth Rew Hicks, Judyth Hill, Hunter Hobbs, Linda Hogan, Cynthia Hogue, Pam Houston, Joseph Hutchinson, Richard Jackson, Elizabeth Jacobson, Patricia Spears Jones, Ilya Kaminsky, Jen Karetnick, Willie James King, Krissy Kludt, Elizabeth Knapp, Albert Kogel, Kateri Kosek, Kay Krattli, Haesong Kwon, Shakiba Hashemi, J. Drew Lanham, Joan Larkin, Gordon Laws, Ibe Leibenberg, Eric leFatte, S. Frederic Liss, Su Love, Conor Robin Madigan, Mary Mahofske, Jesse Tsinijinnie Maloney, Jennifer Markell, Demetria Martinez, Mariana McDonald, Barbara Michelman, Ata Moharreri, Daniel Thomas Moran, Kim Noriega, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pei-Ying Olsen, Brad Orsted, Beverly J. Orth, Harry Owen, Brenda Peterson, Sarah Petruziello, Connie Post, Lucyna Prostko, Octavio Quintanilla, Alfred Quiroz, Susan S. Rancourt, Andy Ray, Stella Reed, Susan Rich, Timothy B. Rien, Jenny Robertson, William Pitt Root, Jude Rittenhouse, Lindsey Royce, Shelli Rottschafer, Ivan Salazar, Zachary Forrest Salazar, Lauren Marie Schmidt, Charlie Scott, Derek Sheffield, Peggy Shumaker, Maurya Simon, Cassie Premo Steele, Melissa Studdard, JeFF Stumpo, Alice Lee Timmins, Julie Trimingham, Melissa Tuckey, Luis Alberto Urrea, Pamela Uschuk, Val Uschuk, Richard Vargas, Edward Vidaurre, Alma Luz Villanueva, Andrea Watson, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Richard Westheimer, Mary Jane White, Ross Williamson, Eleanor Wilner, Lidia Yuknavich, Katie Sarah Zale

03/01/2025

Thank you, terrain.org, Simmons Buntin and Derek Sheffield for featuring my poem, "Prayer Against Extinction," yesterday in terrain.org a superlative online magazine of sustainability.
Here is the link: https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/pamela-uschuk-2/

Prayer Against Extinction Holy             fits in the palm of a hand, the parula warbler’s                                     blue headdress, wild sunflower                                               ....

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!

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!