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Ten days left to enter the 2026 Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award competition!

Moon City Press - The 2026 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...

Ten days left to enter the 2026 Moon City Press Moon City Poetry Award competition!

Moon City Press - The 2026 Moon City Poetry Award • The Moon City Poetry Award is for an original collection of poems written in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual poems in the collection may be published in periodicals or may have appeared in a chapbook, but poems should not be previously published in full-length manuscr...

Happy Thursday! Here's a new micro from Michelle Ross, newly posted at The Citron Review:

https://citronreview.com/2026/04/29/childhood/?fbclid=IwZnRzaASNJsFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe7ksaHYuiU2OMFdF_jN3WCaVoQxZ4J2eX6ExhsX0XmypOEPeHZQ8r-INp3Ow_aem_ZzZvpWrWjG8xppigxPoHcg

Childhood by Michelle Ross   Woods in early morning. No sunrise—only a slow bleaching. Ghostly glow of X-rayed bones. The wind coughs. Trees rattle and hiss. Something stirring in the leaves. Something …

The editors of Moon City Press would like to congratulate the following eleven authors for being named finalists in the 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award competition:

Timothy Boudreau
Bergita Bugarija
Dinah Cox
Sarah Faulkner
Carrie Grinstead
Aatif Rashid
Emily Rinkema
Anna Schachner
Maura Stanton
Zachary Vickers
Francine Witte

The winner of the competition will be chosen from these eleven. They will receive the $1000 prize and have their book published on Moon City Press early next year.

We would like to thank everyone who entered. The 2026 Moon City Short Fiction Competition is open now—link to enter in the Comments.

Congrats to Rachel Weinhaus for being selected for Best Microfiction 2026 for her Moon City Review story, "That's All the Time We Have." Thanks, Meg & Gary!

The editors of Moon City Press would like to congratulate the following eleven authors for being named finalists in the 2025 Moon City Poetry Award competition:

Mike Burwell
Jules Foshee
John Isles
Paul Martínez-Pompa
Linda Michel-Cassidy
Lynne Potts
Liz Robbins
Caleb Scott
Marjorie Stelmach
John Schneider
Francine Witte

The winner of the competition will be chosen from these eleven. They will receive the $1000 prize and have their book published on Moon City Press late this year.

Moon City Press would like to thank everyone who entered. The 2026 Moon City Poetry Competition is open now—link to enter in the Comments.

Thanks to Erin Vachon at SmokeLong Quarterly for interviewing Kim Magowan about her new Moon City Press flash collection, The Last Day!

“Obscure Shapes Crouch in the Dark”: Review of Kim Magowan’s The Last Day: Stories - SmokeLong Quarterly Reviewed by Erin Vachon In the titular story to Kim Magowan’s The Last Day [Moon City Press, March 2026], a narrator finds a High Voltage dahlia that looks like a crimson loofah. She texts her husband a photo of the bizarre flower, and he texts back a red spiky Muppet. The narrator texts a smiley....

New interview with Moon City Press author Kim Magowan about her new collection, The Last Day, with Luke Rolfes at Laurel Review!

Laurel Review - Kim Magowan

Amazing review of Moon City Press's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World and interview with author Joel Hans up at Story Magazine!

Elegies for an Age of Disenchantment: A Review of Joel Hans’s The Bedtime Emptying of Our World – Story Elegies for an Age of Disenchantment: A Review of Joel Hans’s The Bedtime Emptying of Our World

Happy Friday! Here is new fiction from Sarah Freligh, just up at Centaur Lit:

https://centaurlit.com/harvest-as-in-by-sarah-freligh/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRhqGFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeTxCgJHCk2ROF7qk-mFGddKuLL6q9eYylrbdo5Y0p9bCFRlXVgV4Lrp0wXfU_aem_jKRnaLUMCvLbJxu_tXd0bg

Harvest, As In by Sarah Freligh | Centaur (noun): the process or period of gathering in crops, as in “We helped with the harvest.” As in the bushel baskets we filled with apples the birds hadn’t yet pecked or p**ped on, the apples that hadn’t gone squooshy in their rot. Those you threw at me, chanting dog p**p, dog p**p until our fa...