Moon City Press

01/12/2026

Preorder alert! Snag your copy of Joel Hans' The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of Moon City Press's 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award!

Short Stories Joel Hans 978-0-913785-69-0 Paper February 2026

01/07/2026

Happy to see three Moon City Press authors/friends in this new Best Microfiction anthology: Andrew Bertaina, Sarah Freligh, and Michelle N Ross!

A ton of Moon City Review contributors, too!

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

01/07/2026

Congrats to Rachel Weinhaus Yarkoni, whose story that originally appeared in Moon City Review has been selected for Best Microfiction 2026! Thanks to Guest Editor Diane Seuss and series editors Gary Fincke and Meg Pokrass!

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

01/05/2026

We'd like to thank Great Lakes Review for this new review of Sarah Freligh's Other Emergencies:

https://greatlakesreview.org/such-madness-such-damage-a-review-of-sarah-frelighs-other-emergencies/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPI-F5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEySVdjZHRFM3pOdWpLMlhwc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvo8duJOF7Z_qR4NHopDojNWilYgaS2uApquaa5Xr0KLqVUJaN_gzR5pRV6M_aem_PdHh651p5012FrECRSApEQ

This collection follows the hardscrabble lives of the working class and working poor as they lumber through the bleak, unending grit and wet gray ash of their lives. Even though some rise above the…

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...