Moon City Press

13/07/2025

Check it out: Dana Diehl interviewed Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross about their collaborative story collection, Don't Take This the Wong Way:

I have been a fan of Michelle Ross’s and Kim Magowan’s work for years, so when I saw that they had started writing collaboratively, I couldn’t have been more excited. Together, their writing takes on a special magic, their individual styles blending naturally to create something new and sparkl...

11/07/2025

Happy Friday! Start your weekend off right with some new fiction from Pablo Piñero Stillmann, past winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award:

https://newworldwriting.net/pablo-pinero-stillmann-letters-to-a-version-of-myself-in-another-dimension/

A huge thanks to New World Writing Quarterly for publishing this!

Letter to a Version of Myself in a Dimension Without Insects There are these creatures we have here. Or I guess first of all Hello. Does politeness exist in your dimension & is it a good thing?…

08/07/2025

Still catching up on some recent good news, here's a new story from Michelle Ross, courtesy of The Masters Review:

https://mastersreview.com/new-voices-buckets-by-michelle-ross/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLQPN1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFKcnJTclV4T203VTQwMWM3AR7xJaV2B0nmlmZiTojwH4ocknRZmWZ-vDRZNsKQ4TWMNtEfsQfqSbPiY_bejA_aem_0N1nAaYH9k7b0xY3kJTXpg

With spare prose, Michelle Ross’s flash fiction, “Buckets” creates a picture of a marriage in a single moment. In a scene that is both moving and uncomfortable, the narrator and her husband confront his desire to stay in an ice hotel as well as his use of the term “bucket list.” Such a sma...

01/07/2025

We suddenly find ourselves with a backlog of good news to share, so we'll do our best to catch up over the coming days. First up, here's the latest story from the prolific Kim Magowan, past winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award:

https://fracturedlit.com/what-to-do-if-someone-tries-to-tell-you-bad-news/

Thanks to the editors at Fractured Literary for publishing it!

Perhaps you will find yourself in this situation, returning late at night to a university campus, deserted for the summer. This is where all of you visiting chemists are bunking during your one-week Biomolecular conference. You left both your wallet and cell phone in your assigned dorm room because....

27/06/2025

A huge thanks to Luke Rolfes and Laurel Review for this new interview with Sarah Freligh about her latest book, Other Emergencies:

https://laurelreview.org/sarah-freligh?fbclid=IwY2xjawLLyhdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFEU09xT2RzYjN0Z2tWNnFZAR7IOmhW4NpYsLzlaZKKUuNNWnUk4LiUVxpOJAFH3YrrGOQrIQuZo5--N4xyHw_aem_p6T71SlgOridxfkVlh-38w

21/06/2025

Hurray! Here's new fiction from Kim Magowan, just up at MoonPark Review:

By Kim Magowan My wife was pi**ed at me because when she sneezed, I did not say “Bless you!” For context: she was downstairs, I was upstairs. It was the second time in rapid succession that Anna sn…

06/06/2025

A huge thanks to Britta Stromeyer and Bending Genres for this wonderful review of Sarah Freligh's Other Emergencies:

Sarah Freligh’s story collection, Other Emergencies, explores themes of grief, resilience, family dynamics, and the quiet struggles of everyday life in small-town America. With a keen eye for detail and poetic caress, Freligh creates narratives that are both deeply human and profoundly moving. I...

28/05/2025

A quick reminder: Poet Clayton Adam Clark will be reading from his new collection, Auscultate, at Left Bank Books tonight at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP at LBB’s site if you can make it (https://www.left-bank.com/event/clayton-adam-clark-auscultate?fbclid=IwY2xjawKkQ7xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFraXUwa3RQYVBBbzlMYnQ3AR7ztcnaBsCtdnPyQiPgz3QheKLG-O3m48LV_xgsZFOo9-26z8MmMRAg-C5Gyw_aem_P3lT6rZA2Ep44FE-fQgoEg).

21/05/2025

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.

16/05/2025

One month left to submit to the 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...