Moon City Review

12/05/2025

Congratulations to Moon City Review's 2025 Best Microfiction nominees: Kelli Short Borges, Courtney Burton, Julia Coursey, Amy Marques, and Rachel Weinhaus. Good luck!

12/02/2025

Congrats to Moon City Review's 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees: Mikaela Hagen, Gabe Welsch, Jennifer Stewart Miller, Matthew Duffus, Claire Hero, and Kelly Pedro.

Good luck!

12/02/2025

Time to preorder My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé, winner of the 2024 Moon City Press Moon City Poetry Award! Coming in early January—reserve your copy today!

Poems The 2024 Moon City Poetry Award 978-0-913785-71-3 Paper January 2026

11/24/2025

Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by Joel Hans, winner of the 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026. Preorder link coming soon.

Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.

11/19/2025

Cover reveal! Presenting The Last Day by Kim Magowan, part of the Moon City Press Editors Choice Series! The Last Day is coming on March 3, 2026—preorder link up soon!

Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.

11/17/2025

Cover reveal! Here's My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by Ifeoluwa Ayandele, the winner of the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award! This book will be out from Moon City Press on January 6, 2026. Preorder link coming soon!

Cover art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

11/12/2025

We are excited for the return of former Moon City Review assistant editor and Missouri State University alum Bailey Gaylin Moore for a reading from her new essay collection, Thank You for Staying With Me.

She'll be reading in Karls 101 on the MSU campus tonight at 7 p.m., so come on out! It's free and open to the public.

The reading is sponsored by the Missouri State University English Department and the Missouri State Reynolds College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities.

09/26/2025

Awesome interview at Laurel Review with Moon City Press poet Tina Schumann!

Next up in our interview series is Tina Schumann. We talk about her recent poetry collection BONEYARD HERESIES from Moon City Press.
Read the full interview here: https://laurelreview.org/tina-schumann

09/24/2025

Moon City Press poet Tina Schumann is doing a virtual poetry reading tonight for the Missouri State University English Department at 7 p.m., CT. The Zoom Webinar address is in the attached flier. Come on out and hear Tina read her fabulous poems!

09/22/2025

Hear Moon City Press author Tina Schumann read poetry this coming Wednesday, September 24, at 7 p.m., CT, via Zoom! Or if you're in Springfield, MO, come hang out with us and watch her on the big screen! Where and how on the attached flier, but the Zoom Webinar link is https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/87080217436.

Sponsored by the Missouri State University English Department.

05/21/2025

Congrats to Audra Kerr Brown, whose story "How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space" from Moon City Review 2025, has been selected for The Best Small Fictions! Thanks to Robert Shapard, Nathan Leslie, and Michelle Elvy for this honor!

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

05/16/2025

One month left to submit to the Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award!

• The Moon City Short Fiction Award is for an original collection of short fiction, written originally in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual pieces in the collection may be published in periodicals but not yet collected and published in full-length manuscript form. • Ent...