Book News:
Cait Weiss Orcutt's manuscript won Zone 3 Press' First Book Award judged by Douglas Kearney. The book, Cait's first, came out in print November 2017. http://www.zone3press.com/blog/view/caitlin-weiss-wins-2016-book-award-for-poetry
VALLEYSPEAK was awarded the Silver Book Award for Poetry by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
https://secure.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=2381
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VALLEYSPEAK Reviews:
"Book Review: VALLEYSPEAK by Cait Weiss Orcutt" by Megan J. Arlett for American Literary Review
available to read at http://www.americanliteraryreview.com/review-valleyspeak-by-cait-weiss-orcut.html
"Mapping the Valley: A Review of Cait Weiss Orcutt's VALLEYSPEAK" by Allison Pitinii Davis for The Bind
available to read at https://www.thebind.net/blog/caitweissorcutt-valleyspeak
"Navigating Monsterhood in Cait Weiss Orcutt's VALLEYSPEAK" by Joey Lew for StorySouth
available to read at http://storysouth.com/2019/03/cait-weiss-orcutt-valleyspeak.html
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Recent Publications:
Boston Review, "Frontier"
available to read at http://bostonreview.net/poetry/cait-weiss-orcutt-frontier
The Chattahoochee Review, Volume 36.1: “Ode to the Small Black” and “Sex Ed in the Boa Constrictor Classroom”
available for purchase at http://thechattahoocheereview.gpc.edu/onlinefeatures.htm
Chautauqua, Issue 14: "Charity"
available for purchase at https://chautauqua.submittable.com/submit/71695/pre-order-the-2017-issue-invention-and-discovery
Cleaver, Issue 22: "Those Striking Shades"
available to read at https://www.cleavermagazine.com/those-striking-shades-i-the-magician-by-cait-weiss-orcutt/
Day One, Issue 3.22, "Welcome to the Moment"
available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/Day-One
FIELD, Issue 93: "Calabasas" & "The Prophets"
available to read at http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/FIELD/93.html#2
available for purchase at http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/field.html
FreezeRay Poetry, Issue 14: "Adoro Te Raging" & Adoro Te Destruction"
available to read at http://www.freezeraypoetry.com/cait-weiss-orcutt.html
Hayden's Ferry Review, "No Problemo" and "Single Kings of the Valley"
available for purchase athttps://haydens-ferry-review.asu.edu/
Hobart, 07.19.16: “To the Loch Ness”
available to read at http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/to-the-loch-ness
interrupture,, Feb. 2018: "Confession"
available to read at http://interrupture.com/archives/feb_2018/cait_weiss/
JUKED, 03.08.16, "Lineage"
available to read at http://juked.com/2016/03/cait-weiss-lineage.asp
the minnesota review, "Every Ship Is a Romantic Object"
available to read at https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesota-review/article-abstract/2018/91/10/136148/Every-Ship-Is-a-Romantic-Object
Notre Dame Review, Issue 42: “Family Portrait with Lana Turner” and “Spring in Genesta”
available for purchase at http://ndreview.nd.edu/archived-issues/ndr-42/
Pacifica, Issue 8: “Ode to the One Glove”
available for purchase at http://www.pacificareview.com/buy/
pacificREVIEW, Special Issue: Lurking Anonymity: "Bullet," "Hollywood" and "Play House"
available for purchase at http://tinyurl.com/pcfcreview
The Pinch, Issue 35.2: "Burlesque"
available for purchase at http://www.pinchjournal.com/
Prairie Schooner, Volume 92, Number 4: "All Becoming Primitive Colors," "Before Rothko Marked the Soft Edges," "Pre-Fall Forecast"
available for purchase at http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/index.html
Prelude, Issue 3: "Hallows," "Reseda," "What Blooms"
available to read at https://preludemag.com/contributors/cait-weiss/
Puerto del Sol, Issue 54.1: "Fortune: Tinder Consultant," Fortune: Derby Star," "Fortune: Former Pet Owner"
available for purchase at https://www.puertodelsol.org/print
Quarter After Eight, Volume 25: "Femme Presenting to the Alternating Blaze"
available for purchase at http://www.quarteraftereight.org/issues.html
Slipstream Magazine, Issue 34: "Chatsworth"
available for purchase at http://www.slipstreampress.org/issue34.html
Tahoma Literary Review, Issue 7: “Ode to the Glitz”
available for purchase at https://tahomaliteraryreview.com/current-issue-2/
The Literary Review, "One of Two Parties"
available to read at http://www.theliteraryreview.org/issue/chemistry/
The Tishman Review: “Spike Javelin Harpoon” and “Brute Physics”
available to read at http://www.thetishmanreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TTR3.4OCT2017CS.compressed.pdf
Tupelo Quarterly, TQ7: "Vanderbilts"
available to read at http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/vanderbilts-by-cait-weiss/
Two Peach, Issue 3: “Northridge” and “Ode to the Golden”
available to read at http://twopeach.com/#/cait-weiss/
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Upcoming Publications: TBA
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Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
"Sparking Strange Play through Multi-Media Poetry," Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry. Ed. Matthew Burgess. Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2019.
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Published Reviews:
Quarterly West: "Frida Kahlo, Fashion & the Ekphrasis of Lust: A Review of Shelley Wong's Rare Birds"
available to read at https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-93/orcutt-on-wong/
Borderlands: "Dear Gender: A Review of Stacey Waite's Butch Geography"
Issue 48 available to purchase at http://www.borderlands.org/
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Interviews
Houston Public Media, April 2018: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/series/voices-and-verses/2018/04/18/279804/national-poetry-month-the-prophets-by-cait-weiss-orcutt/
Sonora Review, December 2017: https://sonorareview.com/2017/12/06/like-fer-caesura-an-interview-with-cait-weiss-orcutt
Writers League of Texas, May 2019: https://writersleagueoftexas.wordpress.com/2019/05/16/meet-the-conference-boldface-conference/
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Recent Awards & Contest News:
Silver Award for Poetry, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2019.
Nominated for Best of the Net by The Tishman Review, 2018
Nominated for Best New Poets by Pacifica Literary Review, 2016
Nominated for Best New Poets by Tahoma Literary Review, 2016
First Book Award, Zone 3 Press, 2016: http://www.zone3press.com/blog/view/caitlin-weiss-wins-2016-book-award-for-poetry
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Pacifica Literary Review, 2016
Inprint C. Glenn Cambor/MD Anderson Foundation Fellowship, 2016
Top Four Finalist for the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2016
Finalist for the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Provincetown, 2016
Academy of American Poets/The Arthur Rense Prize 2016, Honorable Mention: "Ode to the Small Black"
AWP Intro Journal Project 2015, Honorable Mention: “Spike, Javelin, Harpoon”
Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award 2015, Honorable Mention: “Maceration and Other Poems”
Tupelo Quarterly’s 2015 Poetry Contest, Finalist: “Vanderbilts”
Vandewater Poetry Award 2015, 3rd Place: “Calabasas and Other Poems”
Vandewater Poetry Award 2016, Honorable Mention: “Portrait of Family”
West Trestle Review's Cross Tie Poet of the Week: http://www.westtrestlereview.com/cross-ties/cross-tie-91415-cait-weiss
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Less Recent Publications:
Amethyst Arsenic, Issue 2.2: "Didion"& "Ride"
available to read at http://www.amethystarsenic.com/issues/2-2/cait-weiss.php
Anomalous, Issue 7: "This Is the Story of How I Got Sober Without Naming Names Like a Chump" & "The Whole Ending"
available to read at http://www.anomalouspress.org/7/32.weiss.story.php
available to read at http://www.anomalouspress.org/7/33.weiss.ending.php
Assisi, Issue 2: "Late Night Villanelle"
available to read at http://issuu.com/stfrancisny/docs/assisiv3i1_2/206
The Cortland Review, Issue 59: "Death Happens Slower"
available to read at http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/59/weiss.php
The Red Branch Journal, Issue 2: "Why You Aren't Sleeping"
available for purchase at http://redbranchjournal.com/number-two.html
What if Writing is Dreaming Together: Poetry and Prose from NY Writers Coalition: "Orbit," "Sky" & "Doubt: A Villanelle"
available for purchase at http://nywriterscoalition.org/bookstore/item/what-if-writing-is-dreaming-together/
