Moon City Review

10/29/2024

Look at what I just picked up at the printer! Congrats, Avitus B Carle!

Pre-order copies will ship soon. To pre-order a copy still today, go to the link in the comments.

10/25/2024

Proof approved, book shipping next week! Congrats, Avitus!

10/07/2024

What a fantastic reading we had Missouri State University this past Thursday with John Gallaher and Luke Rolfes, who read for our Missouri State University English Department series!

Kudos, too, to Sara Burge for her excellent intro.

10/03/2024

Happening tonight!

Authors John Gallaher and Luke Rolfes are reading at Missouri State University for the Missouri State University English Department this Thursday, October 3, in Hill Hall 0001! Come on out and hear these two writers read from their new books (which will be for sale at the event). Free and open to the public.

09/30/2024

Authors John Gallaher and Luke Rolfes are reading at Missouri State University for the Missouri State University English Department this Thursday, October 3, in Hill Hall 0001! Come on out and hear these two writers read from their new books (which will be for sale at the event). Free and open to the public.

09/18/2024

Available for preorder: Avitus B Carle's These Worn Bodies, winner of the 2023 Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award!

Flash Fiction by Avitus B. Carle 978-0-913785-79-9 Paper November 2024

08/13/2024

Two more days+ to enter Moon City Press's 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award and 2024 Moon City Poetry Award competitions. Free entries for writers of color, gender-non-conforming and LGBTQ writers, and writers living with disabilities. Click on the link below for full guidelines and to enter today!

Moon City Press is an independent press, housed within Missouri State University's Department of English, that sponsors the Moon City Poetry Award and the Moon City Short Fiction Award, annual competitions for poetry and short-story collections. In addition, our annual literary anthology, Moon City....

07/29/2024

Cover reveal! Presenting Boneyard Heresies by Tina Schumann, winner of the Moon City Press 2023 Moon City Poetry Award, due December 1.

Cover art by MJ Cullinane and design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

Watch for a pre-order link soon!

07/11/2024

Moon City Press has reopened its 2024 competitions up for free submissions for marginalized voices. Statement: Moon City Press is committed to publishing work from often-excluded and marginalized voices, including writers of color, gender-non-conforming and LGBTQ writers, and writers living with disabilities. To create an accessible platform for these artists, we are offering free submissions to our contests for anyone fitting these descriptions.

We have opened the portals for submissions from the general public as well.

The link to our Submittable portal is in the comments.

Good luck!

05/31/2024

Cool interview in JMWW Journal with Lee Ann Roripaugh by Curtis Smith about her Moon City Press collection, Reveal Codes!

I find myself attracted to shiny things.

05/29/2024

So incredibly stoked that two flashes from the 2023 Moon City Review have been selected for this year's The Best Small Fictions: "Spaceship in a Bottle" by Robert P. Kaye and “Timetable for Learning to Eat Alone” by Lauren Woods! Thanks to series editor Nathan Leslie and this year's guest editor, Amber Sparks! Congrats, too, to all the other great writers in the anthology, including so many friends.

Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

05/03/2024

Cover reveal! Presenting the face of These Worn Bodies, the forthcoming flash fiction collection from Avitus B Carle, winner of the 2023 Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award!

Release date November 1, but the pre-order link will be up soon.

Cover art and design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

04/09/2024

Taylor Byas will be reading at Missouri State University as part of the Maya Angelou Book Award this Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m., in 101 Meyer Library on the MSU Campus. Sponsored by the Missouri State University English Department!

04/05/2024

Some fantastic Moon City Press news: Because of a generous outside donation, we have been able to establish a brand-new annual book series, the Editors Choice Series. The first book in this new series will be Other Emergencies, a story collection by Sarah Freligh. Other Emergencies will appear in February of 2025.

Sarah Freligh is the author of seven books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize; A Brief Natural History of Women (Harbor Editions, 2023); and the forthcoming Hereafter, winner of the 2024 Bath Novella-in-Flash contest. Her work has appeared many literary journals and anthologized in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018), and Best Microfiction (2019-22). Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation. She lives and swims in Rochester, New York.

Congrats to both Sarah and Moon City Press for this exciting new venture!

03/04/2024

The editors of Moon City Press are thrilled to announce Avitus B Carle as the winner of the 2023 Moon City Short Fiction Award! Avitus' collection, These Worn Bodies, will appear this fall from Moon City Press. She will also receive the $1000 first prize.

Avitus B. Carle (she/her) lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate from the Naslund-Mann School of Creative Writing's MFA program located in Louisville, Kentucky, her stories have been published in a variety of places, including Fractured Lit., ASP Bulletin, Five South, Lumiere Review, -ette review, and elsewhere. Avitus's stories have been nominated for the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and Best Microfictions. Her story, "A Lethal Woman," was included in the 2022 Best Small Fictions anthology and her story, "Black Bottom Swamp Bottle Woman," was included on the 2023 Wigleaf Top 50 list. She can be found online at avitusbcarle.com or everywhere.

Finalists Zachary Tyler Vickers and Lauren Woods have been named as Runners-Up.

Congratulations to Avitus and thanks to everyone who entered and everyone who has supported our contests. If you'd like to enter the 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award competition, the Submittable link is in the comments below.

03/01/2024

Big congratulations to Tina Schumann for winning first prize in the Moon City Press 2023 Moon City Poetry Award competition! Series Editor Karen Craigo has selected Schumann's Boneyard Heresies to be published later this year by MCP. Schumann will also receive the $1000 first prize.

Tina Schumann is the author of three poetry collections, Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press); Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues, winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition; and As If (Parlor City Press), which won the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. She is editor of the IPPY award-winning anthology Two Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen). Her work received the American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal, finalist status in 2023 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize from The Missouri Review, the Terrain.org annual poetry contest, and honorable mentions in The Atlantic, Crab Creek Review and The Allen Ginsberg Award. She is a poetry editor with Wandering Aengus Press. Her poems have appeared since 1999 in publication such as The American Journal of Poetry, Ascent, Catamaran Cimarron Review, Hunger Mountain, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ni**od, Parabola, Palabra, Paterson Literary Review, Poetry Daily, Rattle, Verse Daily, and read on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. You can find her at www.tinaschumann.com.

Finalists Stephen Tuttle and Dale Cottingham were named as Runners-Up.

Thanks to everyone who entered this year's competition—the editors of Moon City Press appreciate your faith in us.

If you're interested in entering the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award competition, the link is in the Comments below.

02/20/2024

The editors of Moon City Press are pleased to announce the finalists in its 2023 Moon City Poetry Award competition. These finalists are as follows:

John Blair
Beth Brown Preston
Dale Cottingham
Richard Kenefic
Lenore Myers
Tuuli Qin-Terrill
Nicole Santalucia
Tina Schumann
Matt Spireng
Stephen Tuttle
Pamela Wax
Tony Whedon

Series editor Karen Craigo will choose a winner from this group, and once that writer's book is contracted, Moon City Press will make an official announcement. This collection will appear late this year and the winner will receive the $1000 prize.

If you would like to enter the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award competition, the Submittable entry portal is linked below.
Good luck to all the finalists and thank you to everyone who entered!

• The Moon City Poetry Award is for an original collection of poems written in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual poems in the collection may be published in periodicals or may have appeared in a chapbook, but poems should not be previously published in full-length manuscr...

11/10/2023

Another box opening! This time it’s Reveal Codes by Lee Ann Roripaugh, winner of the 2022 Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award!