About Cloudbank Cloudbank Books was launched in 2000 with the publication of Millennial Spring: Eight New Oregon Poets, an anthology of contemporary verse, edited by Peter Sears and Michael Malan. Since then, we have published nine other books of poetry, including those shown on our Home Page. In 2009, the first issue of Cloudbank magazine was published. Each issue is 84 pages, perfect-bound with color art on the cover. Two or three book reviews are included in each issue, along with 65 pages of poetry and short prose. We offer a prize of $200 for one poem or flash fiction in each issue. Contest entries should include a check for $15, which pays for the current and next issue of Cloudbank. See Contest link for submission guidelines. The winner of the Cloudbank 1 contest was “Heaven in the Bad Borough” by Sara Lier of Califon, New Jersey. The winner of the Cloudbank 2 contest was "Everything You Needed to Know You Learned at the High School Dance" by Amy Miller. Cloudbank 3's winning poem was "Emptiness" by Steve Dieffenbacher. Most recently, "Cinderella, later" by Francine Witte, won the prize for Cloudbank 4. Links to all winning poems can be found on the Home Page. About Cloudbank's editors: Peter Sears’ latest book is Green Diver. For ordering information, see our Home page. Peter is the author of two other books of poems, The Brink and Tour, New & Selected Poems. He received his M.F.A. from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and is the 1999 winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Contest. He currently teaches in the M.F.A. program at Pacific University in Portland, Oregon. Michael Malan’s poems and stories have been published in Epoch, Hawaii Review, Midwest Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, Oregon Literary Review, Rosebud, Rhino, The Christian Science Monitor, Portland Review and Blue Earth Review. He was a finalist in the New Letters 2008 Literary Awards for Writers.