Moon City Press

11/05/2024

A Tuesday treat: New fiction from the wonderful Michelle Ross, thanks to the editors at Centaur Lit!

https://centaurlit.com/conspiracy-by-michelle-ross/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGRyKxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHexpfxMwnyTgBsS1DJksJijBrQpJ47ySj2ohA0K1oU4oCxMBTWPmTMIntQ_aem_pq-QeHsWwOWxYBtAkD0yRw

My son begged me not to drown the bee in the swimming pool. Offered to pluck the creature from the stretched strap of my swimsuit, where it clung mere inches from my neck.

11/04/2024

Getting the week off to a great start, he's new fiction from Kim Magowan, thanks to the editors at Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine:

Photo: Viktor Forgacs The Last Faculty Meeting The last full faculty meeting of the semester was held a mere two days after Commencement—two days since they had been sweating in their heavy regalia…

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!

10/18/2024

Congratulations to Kim Magowan on her latest story, brought to us by Gone Lawn:

10/09/2024

It's always a good day when we have new work to share by one of our wonderful authors. Today, we've got new fiction from Kim Magowan, thanks to the editors at Bending Genres:

For my eighteenth birthday, my older sisters proposed that the three of us treat ourselves to stone hearts. Rachel and Helen would pay for mine, as a present.

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.

10/01/2024

Thanks to Poetry Daily for their recent profile of Bret Shepard and Place Where Presence Was, winner of the 2019 Moon City Poetry Award:

from "Place Where Presence Was" published by Moon City Press

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.

09/21/2024

We have TWO new flash fiction pieces from Avitus B Carle to share, thanks to the editors at JMWW Journal:

Before I begin my family history presentation, I let my classmates know I’m Black.

09/19/2024

Congratulations to Michelle Ross on the publication of her latest flash fiction piece, "Cold Fish," via Swamp pink Literary Journal:

https://swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/cold-fish/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFZLD9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWo0GMIfjQLjyQpRLson4kjrm73ZZL729-FoekPMIRzlacE2BshrjEJ-Tg_aem_Qg_DHtmKCdMoHVd3N4b3Hg

In a noon meeting, Oleg, one of the engineers, wrote in the Zoom chat that his camera was off because he was eating lunch.  

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

09/17/2024

Don't miss Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh reading from her collection Reveal Codes, winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award, this Thursday, 9/19, at 3:30 p.m., as part of the University of South Dakota Department of English Colloquium Series at Farber Hall in Old Main.

09/09/2024

Check out this new apocalypse flash from the amazing Avitus B Carle, courtesy of XRAY Literary Magazine:

https://xraylitmag.com/you-work-in-the-worst-diner-in-existence-thats-always-open-for-business-by-avitus-b-carle/fiction/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFML81leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdc1sAw-c6W-npfhZ-N4ZDT48xkx4crl2AJ2p9H8Sj-BnihtU5ZWPi4roA_aem_Ug3x2ZdAgIQqEr_3Li7mjA

Where the brown leather stools and chairs suction to the patrons’ skin until they bruise. Where the tables wobble and the menus are always sticky and the food listed changes every day. The bar is slanted and the floor dips and your uniform remains the same except for the endless supply of toothpic...

09/06/2024

New fiction from Kim Magowan, just posted by JMWW Journal:

You’d think my neighbor would cut a woman living on her own some slack. You’d think he’d understand that I did not brush against his car with malicious intent.

09/05/2024

We're always happy to share the latest co-written story from esteemed authors Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross, this one brought to you by New Flash Fiction Review:

https://newflashfiction.com/courtesy/

And keep an eye out for Kim and Michelle's forthcoming collection from EastOver Press, Don't Take This the Wrong Way:

https://eastoverpress.com/book/dont-take-this-the-wrong-way/

At the checkout line, I wave ahead a woman who clutches nothing but a bottle of shampoo. She doesn’t say thank you, but she does smile gratefully, so I’m not too bothered by the omission. But then she and the elderly cashier get to chatting. About courtesy, of all things.