What Is Included in Each Issue of Cloudbank Journal?

Cloudbank is a journal of contemporary writing that publishes poetry and flash fiction, and the site's current listings show recent issues such as Cloudbank 19 and Cloudbank 20 alongside the individual authors featured in them. If you want to know what a specific issue contains, the site presents each issue as a titled entry with contributor names and a "Read More" link, so the reliable way to see an issue's contents is to open that entry rather than assume a fixed format.

What the journal publishes

Based on the site's own descriptions, Cloudbank issues center on:

• Poetry — the site describes its poetry books and journal content in literary terms, and quotes praise for poets such as Christopher Buckley.
• Flash fiction — Cloudbank 20 is described as containing "poems and flash fiction."

So an issue is a mixed literary collection rather than a single-genre publication.

What the site shows for recent issues

The homepage lists issues as entries with partial contributor information:

Each entry links to a fuller page ("Read More"), which is where the complete contents and ordering information would appear.

How to find out what a specific issue includes

1. Go to the Cloudbank Books site and locate the issue entry (for example, "Cloudbank 20" or "Cloudbank 19").
2. Open the "Read More" link for that issue.
3. Read the listed contributors and genre notes to see whether the issue matches your interest (poetry only, or poetry plus flash fiction).
4. If you want to obtain the issue, use the same entry or the linked details page for availability and ordering information.

Expected result: you get the contributor list and genre mix for that issue, plus whatever purchase or availability information the site provides for it.

Common sticking points

• The homepage only shows partial contents. Contributor lists on the front page are truncated ("Rolly Kent, Gary Soto, Melanie…"), so don't treat the homepage as a complete table of contents.
• Issues and books are listed together. Entries like Early & Late by Christopher Buckley, As Creatures by Suzanne Matson, Dear Dusk by Stephen Knauth, and The Silent Conversation by Bruce Bond are books, not journal issues. Check whether an entry is labeled as an issue (Cloudbank 19, Cloudbank 20) or as a title by a single author.
• Availability changes. Some entries note timing, such as As Creatures being "available in early November" with preorder, so confirm current status on the entry itself.

Related pages worth knowing

• Submissions and the Vern Rutsala Book Prize: the site's contest section states that the winner receives publication, $1,000, and 50 books, while the Editor's Choice receives publication, $500, and 50 books, with a "Click here for details" link for full guidelines.
• Individual titles: book entries such as The Silent Conversation note it was published by Cloudbank Books and was the Editor's Choice for the Vern Rutsala prize, which helps distinguish press books from journal issues.

If your goal is simply to know what a given issue contains, the issue's own "Read More" page is the authoritative source; the homepage is only an index.