Moon City Review

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...

05/06/2025

The editors of Moon City Press are thrilled to announce the finalists in its 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award competition. They are as follows:

Sudha Balagopal
Patricia Q. Bidar
Famous Chukwuemeka
Elissa Field
Carrie Grinstead
Joel Hans
Abby Manzella
Mike McClelland-Williamson
Matthew Purdy
Jenn Stroud Rossmann
Zachary Tyler Vickers

The MCP editors will choose a winner over the next couple of weeks, then that winner will then see their manuscript published by Moon City Press later this year and the author will receive the $1000 prize.

Submissions for the 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award are now open through June 16. Link in the Comments below.

Thank you to everyone who entered!

04/02/2025

Moon City Press is pleased to announce the 11 finalists in its 2024 Moon City Poetry Award book competition. The winning manuscript will be chosen by Moon City Press staff from among the following collections:

Laurel Anderson, The Xylem Canticles
Ifeoluwa Ayandele, My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body
Wayne Benson, I Am a Black Poet: Poems
Jennifer Bullis, Landscape With Unsettled Figures
Sarah Burke, Invisible Labor
Hollie Dugas, Filling the Gourd With Bees
Karen Holmberg, Reckless Shelter
Donald Illich, Fireworks Without a Sound
Elisabeth Murawski, Peripheral Outbreaks of Blue
Amanda Rabaduex, A Ghost in the Singing
Kim Roberts, Mouth to Mouth

Our editors will have a winner soon and then that manuscript will become a book late this year on Moon City Press!

Thanks to everyone who entered, for your interest in being a part of our press.

Submissions for the 2025 Moon City Poetry Award are now open—link in the comments.

03/29/2025

Come to the Moon City Press booth, 655–657, for the deal of the century: All books are $5! And there are deals to be made!

03/28/2025

Moon City Press author Tina Schumann on Verse Daily today!

Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

03/28/2025

Come by the Moon City Press booth, 655-657, to meet Avitus B Carle and have her sign a copy of These Worn Bodies! She will be signing 11-1 today!

03/28/2025

Come by the Moon City Press booth, 655-657, to meet Avitus B. Carle and have her sign a copy of These Worn Bodies! She will be signing 11-1 today!

03/28/2025

AWP conference alert: Sarah Freligh will be signing copies of her new book, Other Emergencies, at the Moon City Press booth (655-657) from 2 to 4 p.m. today!