Moon City Press

12/18/2025

Congrats and good luck to Moon City Review's 2025 Best Small Fictions nominees!

Myna Chang, Claudia Monpere, Kelly Pedro, Erin Vachon, Nora Wagner

12/17/2025

Don't forget to preorder the amazing My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by Ifeoluwa Ayandele, coming in early January from Moon City Press!

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

12/05/2025

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

12/02/2025

Congrats to Moon City Review's 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees: Mikaela Hagen, Gabriel 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

12/01/2025

Congratulations to Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross for having their co-authored collection, Don't Take This the Wrong Way, included in Literary Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025:

https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOaxwxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEetECDo_EpIFpHeKALsxCTFaOozn5Qn-kgnYGQVt7s4q-URFzkjZ7UWB5g51g_aem_VX8wSAhid5XsrmpXiYhbmQ

The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

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.

11/23/2025

Getting an early start on the holiday festivities, here is new fiction from Trudy Lewis, yet another esteemed Moon City Press author:

https://atlengthmag.com/ace-annunciation/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOODeZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeRQ1wjcm2v8Q6Noukrb1uvqPM9slrLAvERei5ncU-66BFtv71e7cDpG5UzeA_aem_b4Kdbaus6HLp3ceCvqV2yg

            Maura looked up and saw the screen pulsing with an unfamiliar light. Blue and gold rays flashed at her with a coma-inducing frequency and kernels of techno-pop exploded in her ears, leaving a tinsel of tinnitus in their wake. She had fallen asleep at the computer again, her he...

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.

11/18/2025

Today's treat is new microfiction from Michelle Ross, just up at Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine:

https://gooseberry-pie.com/Transmogrification/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOJrfBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFOcVdSUGZKWGoyMVJPSHVyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqbnlsJqFcsMyJw7Ezy8mIr38vRGiYfzujiDoXt0vrwAdq4HPPPwRZr2n3DY_aem_WwkG_qIKTWoj_zRBpdv5AQ

Photo by Logan Voss on Unsplash by Michelle Ross The morning was pleasant, so we kept walking, forgetting how quickly conditions change. By the time we turned around, we’d run out of shade—no reprieve anywhere. Wasn’t long before you said what you said, which later you’d say I shouldn’t ho...

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 Art & Design with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

11/16/2025

We need to catch up on sharing a bunch of Moon City Press author news (a good problem to have), and what better place to start than with this new story from Claudia Putnam, courtesy of the always-wonderful Ghost Parachute:

1. The Emigration The first landings of course had us glued to our screens. Occasional crises would bring us back. After a while we lost interest, forgot, even. It wasn’t exactly an interesting show. Always the same landscape, the tunnels and domes, that killing cold, the stars too icy in their gl...