Moon City Press

09/07/2026

Check out this wonderful new flash piece from Emily Rinkema, just up at Hot Flash Literary:

https://hotflashliterary.com/i-think-will-shortz-nyt-puzzle-editor-wants-to-have-sex-with-me/?fbclid=IwY2xjawULwwZwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMThhd1ZMS0oydHVDY2RRWndzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeRVvhUzAWtP6GsSVREoejzTuDcsCOLG1FXpJH9FjRZV9VUdqnNXKRSF8xBMk_aem_YO7q4kZXcjOIHli1Y5p6rw

And keep an eye out for Emily's upcoming collection, Dead Mother Card, to be published by Moon City Press in 2027.

I noticed it first on Monday morning, wide awake at 4 a.m., right there in black and white on my phone app. 25 Across: Avian metaphor for a romantic couple (9 letters); 30 Across: Two of a kind (4 letters); 69 Across: Must-have (4 letters). I gasped at the boldness and my husband, Tom, rolled ...

08/12/2026

Moon City Review welcomes Adele Elise Williams as its new Creative Nonfiction Editor! Adele steps in for the the retiring John Turner, who served awesomely for 14 years. Send her your best work today!

08/11/2026

Damn good story by Moon City Press author Sarah Freligh in Ghost Parachute!

I’ve tried for years to forget them, tried not to imagine how it was to step away from those fingers of fire into the cool air of a September morning. I used to dream I was one of them, on a window ledge waving a white flag I’d made from a dead man’s shirt. Now […]

08/07/2026

A great flash by Moon City author Claudia Putnam in the new Ghost Parachute!

He spoke an ancient language out of Siberia. Full of wide low skies and rolling grasslands, shawled men with staffs, and ponies grazing over distances. This is one of those stories where people magically understand each other, or where language is not the reason for misunderstanding. She liked to li...

08/03/2026

New Emily Rinkema in Trampset!

by Emily Rinkema...The Mongols don’t notice me right away. I’m wearing sweatpants, wool socks, and a Dogs are My People hoodie, which I haven’t taken off since I checked in two days ago, alone.

07/13/2026

Catching up on some recent news, here's a new story from Kim Magowan, recently shared by New World Writing Quarterly:

You acquire a habit, then the habit is you. You are a person-sized container that the habit pours into. The habit fills to your edges. You are a transparent piping bag, a pillow case, a jelly, a fr…

07/07/2026

Congratulations to the Moon City Press authors named to the Wigleaf Top 50:

Andrew Bertaina, "The Shape of Things"
Kim Magowan, "Ontkommer"

Here's the complete list (be sure to click on the links to read the authors' stories):

An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.

07/06/2026

The editors at Moon City Press would like to congratulate Paul Martinez P***a of Elmurst, Illinois, for winning the 2025 Moon City Poetry Award for his collection Floor, My Floor, My Loyal Lover. Paul will receive the $1000 cash prize and his book will be published by MCP in early 2027.

Paul Martinez P***a lives and works in northeastern Illinois. He is the author of the chapbook, Pepper Spray (Momotombo Press). His first full length book, My Kill Adore Him, was selected for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and published by University of Notre Dame Press. His second book, Domestic Co**se, was an honoree in the Midland Authors Awards and was published by Match Factory Editions. His poetry has been widely anthologized and was commissioned for a Chicago Public Radio project called "In Verse," which aimed to explore the emotional weight of gun violence. He is a Canto Mundo fellow and currently edits for Packingtown Review.

John Isles and Francine Witte are the runners up in the competition.

We would like to thank everyone who entered this year's contest, which always prompts so many amazing manuscripts. We wish everyone good luck with their manuscript and with all their writing endeavors.

06/24/2026

The editors of Moon City Press congratulate Emily Rinkema of Burlington, Vermont, for winning the 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award competition for her book, Dead Mother Card! Emily will receive the $1000 cash prize and see her book published by MCP in early 2027.

Emily's bio: Emily Rinkema lives in northern Vermont. Her stories have recently appeared in Cutleaf, Moon City Review, Milk Candy Review, and Wigleaf, and have been selected for The Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. You can read more at https://www.emilyrinkema.com/ or follow her on BS or IG .

Runners-up in the contest include Timothy Boudreau and Zachary Tyler Vickers.

Thanks to everyone who entered. We received a record number of submissions this year, so many of them worthy of this honor. We are excited to be a publisher in this extremely exciting time, with so many talented writers.

06/15/2026

Last day to enter the Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award competition!

• 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...