Moon City Review

05/27/2026

The editors of Moon City Press would like to congratulate the following eleven authors for being named finalists in the 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award competition:

Timothy Boudreau
Bergita Bugarija
Dinah Cox
Sarah Faulkner
Carrie Grinstead
Aatif Rashid
Emily Rinkema
Anna Schachner
Maura Stanton
Zachary Vickers
Francine Witte

The winner of the competition will be chosen from these eleven. They will receive the $1000 prize and have their book published on Moon City Press early next year.

We would like to thank everyone who entered. The 2026 Moon City Short Fiction Competition is open now—link to enter in the Comments.

05/26/2026

Congrats to Rachel Weinhaus for being selected for Best Microfiction 2026 for her Moon City Review story, "That's All the Time We Have." Thanks, Meg Pokrass & Gary!

05/21/2026

The editors of Moon City Press would like to congratulate the following eleven authors for being named finalists in the 2025 Moon City Poetry Award competition:

Mike Burwell
Jules Foshee
John Isles
Paul Martínez-Pompa
Linda Michel-Cassidy
Lynne Potts
Liz Robbins
Caleb Scott
Marjorie Stelmach
John Schneider
Francine Witte

The winner of the competition will be chosen from these eleven. They will receive the $1000 prize and have their book published on Moon City Press late this year.

Moon City Press would like to thank everyone who entered. The 2026 Moon City Poetry Competition is open now—link to enter in the Comments.

05/20/2026

Thanks to Erin Vachon at SmokeLong Quarterly for interviewing Kim Magowan about her new Moon City Press flash collection, The Last Day!

Reviewed by Erin Vachon In the titular story to Kim Magowan’s The Last Day [Moon City Press, March 2026], a narrator finds a High Voltage dahlia that looks like a crimson loofah. She texts her husband a photo of the bizarre flower, and he texts back a red spiky Muppet. The narrator texts a smiley....

05/18/2026

New interview with Moon City Press author Kim Magowan about her new collection, The Last Day, with Luke Rolfes at Laurel Review!

05/14/2026

Amazing review of Moon City Press's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World and interview with author Joel Hans up at Story Magazine!

Elegies for an Age of Disenchantment: A Review of Joel Hans’s The Bedtime Emptying of Our World

04/28/2026

An interview with Moon City Press author Ifeoluwa Ayandele!

Download as PDFBorn in Tede, Nigeria, Ifeoluwa Ayandele is a poet with work in Callaloo, Poetry London, Magma, Michigan Quarterly Review, among other publications. Besides being shortlisted for the Wisconsin Poetry Series’ Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prize and the 2024 Autumn House Rising Writer Pr...

04/16/2026

Alum Jessica Turcat is reading tonight, April 16, from her new book, Hunger House, at 7 p.m, CT. in Karls 102 on the Missouri State University campus! Come on out to hear this amazing writers and MSU Bear!

Sponsored by the Missouri State University Department of English and the Missouri State Reynolds College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities!

04/10/2026

Alum Jessica Turcat will be reading at Missouri State University on Thursday, April 16, in Karls 102 at 7 p.m., CT, on campus. Come on out and hear this talented poet read from her new book!

03/18/2026

Here's an info sheet for the new MFA program in Creative Writing at Missouri State University! Drop us a line if you have questions, but we are looking for students for THIS FALL for a fully funded program!