CAIT WEISS ORCUTT: EDITOR, EDUCATOR, POET, & ESSAYIST
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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/
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