Moon City Press

10/21/2025

Hot off the presses, here's a new co-authored story from Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross, just up at The Ilanot Review:

Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or more aptly, I smell … Continue reading →

10/15/2025

Thanks, once again, to New World Writing Quarterly, here's new fiction from Michelle Ross:

People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also because people in elevators are often alone…

10/15/2025

The latest issue of New World Writing Quarterly features a couple of Moon City Press authors! First up, here's the latest story from Kim Magowan:

What first gave us the idea is that Gwen was a lead in the school play, and her character would only love men named Ernest. So we decided that for the next calendar year, Gwen would only date Alexa…

10/13/2025

Happy Monday! Making your day a little better, here's new fiction from Cate McGowan, the very first winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award:

10/10/2025

One more selection from the latest issue of Ghost Parachute, here's new fiction from the wonderful Avitus B. Carle:

There’s a hurricane teasing the leftover bits of Massachusetts. A snow storm masking Chicago. Mission control wants to keep things concrete. Be specific they say, since this is the final call. “Are you sure I can’t come home?” Static. You perform what must be your 40th cartwheel because 40 i...

10/08/2025

Come check out Missouri State University English Department alum Amber Isaac read at Missouri State University from her new poetry collection, Peppermint, on Wednesday, October 15, in Karls Hall 101 at 7 p.m. CT! Going to be amazing!

10/06/2025

More from the latest issue of Ghost Parachute, here's fiction from Andrew Bertaina:

I haven’t made love in ages, which isn’t true. But I often say, well, many things. I often say that the truth isn’t in the truth but in what feels like the truth. I haven’t made love in ages, so I flip through my phone, watching strangers on the internet, who are also, not making […]

10/03/2025

Sharing more work from the esteemed Moon City Press authors who appear in the latest issue of Ghost Parachute, here is "The Way the Cookie Crumbles" by Sarah Freligh:

Sometimes Rita pretends to be sick so she can stay home from school. She and her mom watch television in the morning, talk shows where the hosts interview celebrities about their workout routines or the best place in Italy to buy cashmere sweaters. Once, an actress got down on the floor and demonstr...

10/01/2025

We're thrilled to help share the latest issue of Ghost Parachute, which features not one but FOUR Moon City Press authors! First up, here's new fiction from Kim Magowan:

Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a long skirt that brushes the dusty floor; my hair’s in a bun. I touch it to confirm every ...

09/26/2025

Awesome interview at Laurel Review with Moon City Press poet Tina Schumann!

Next up in our interview series is Tina Schumann. We talk about her recent poetry collection BONEYARD HERESIES from Moon City Press.
Read the full interview here: https://laurelreview.org/tina-schumann

09/24/2025

A quick reminder: Hear Moon City Press author Tina Schumann read poetry tonight at 7 p.m., CT, via Zoom! Or if you're in Springfield, MO, come hang out with us and watch her on the big screen! Where and how on the attached flier, but the Zoom Webinar link is:

https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/87080217436

Sponsored by the Missouri State University Department of English.

09/22/2025

Hear Moon City Press author Tina Schumann read poetry this coming Wednesday, September 24, at 7 p.m., CT, via Zoom! Or if you're in Springfield, MO, come hang out with us and watch her on the big screen! Where and how on the attached flier, but the Zoom Webinar link is https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/87080217436.

Sponsored by the Missouri State University Department of English.