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

Last day to enter the 2026 Moon City Press Moon City Poetry Award competition!

Ten days left to enter the 2026 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Poetry Award competition! mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/33881...

Ten days left to enter the 2026 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award competition! mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/33881...

New interview with @mooncitypress.bsky.social press.bsky.social author @kimmagowan.bsky.social gowan.bsky.social about her new collection, The Last Day, with @lukerolfes.bsky.social s.bsky.social at @laurelreview.bsky.social! laurelreview.org/kim-magowan

Students and professors! MissouriState has a new, fully funded MFA in Creative Writing and we're looking for students for THIS FALL. Come study with me and my amazing colleagues and work with @mooncitypress.bsky.social and @mooncityreview.bsky.social! Contact us with questions today!

@joelhans.com will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair in Thursday, March 5, 3-4:30 p.m. at Booth #775!

@kimmagowan.bsky.social signing her new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair on Friday, March 6, 10-11:30 a.m., Booth #775!

@ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social signing at the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booth at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair, Thursday, March 5, 2026, Booth #775!

This is going to be such an amazing event!

Excited to be bringing four new @mooncitypress.bsky.social titles to the @awpwriter.org conference: a new issue of @mooncityreview.bsky.social and new books by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, @joelhans.com, and @kimmagowan.bsky.social.

Here's a cool new @jmwwjournal.bsky.social interview with @kimmagowan.bsky.social by Curtis Smith with lots of mentions of Kim's new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Last Day, due out next month! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/s...

Cover reveal! @mooncityreview.bsky.social 2026! Debuting at @awpwriter.org in Baltimore in March. Gorgeous art by Shen Chen Hsieh. Author list and pre-order link coming soon!

Preorder alert! Snag your copy of @joelhans.com's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of @mooncitypress.bsky.social's 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award! www.uapress.com/product/bedt...

Happy to see three @mooncitypress.bsky.social authors/friends in this new @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthology: @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and Michelle Ross! A ton of @mooncityreview.bsky.social contributors, too! www.bestmicrofiction.com

Congrats to @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social, whose story that originally appeared in @mooncityreview.bsky.social has been selected for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026! Thanks to Guest Editor Diane Seuss and series editors @gary79.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social! www.bestmicrofiction.com

Congrats and good luck to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions nominees! @mynachang.bsky.social, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, @kellypedro.bsky.social, @erinvachon.bsky.social, Nora Wagner

Don't forget to order the amazing My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, coming in early January from @mooncitypress.bsky.social! www.uapress.com/product/my-f...

Congratulations to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees: @kelliborges2.bsky.social, @courtneyb77.bsky.social, Julia Coursey, @amymarques.bsky.social, and @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social. Good luck!

Congrats to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees: Mikaela Hagen, @gabrielwelsch.bsky.social, @jstewartmiller.bsky.social, @duffusmatthew.bsky.social, Claire Hero, and @kellypedro.bsky.social. Good luck!

Time to preorder My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Poetry Award! Coming in early January—reserve your copy today! www.uapress.com/product/my-f...

Cover reveal! Presenting The Last Day by @kimmagowan.bsky.social, part of the Moon City Press Editors Choice Series! The Last Day is coming on March 3, 2026—preorder link up soon! Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.

Awesome interview at Laurel Review with @mooncitypress.bsky.social poet @tms2072.bsky.social! laurelreview.org/tina-schuman...

@mooncitypress.bsky.social poet @tms2072.bsky.social is doing a virtual poetry reading tonight for the Missouri State University English Department at 7 p.m., CT. The Zoom Webinar address is in the attached flier. Come on out and hear Tina read her fabulous poems!

@mooncitypress.bsky.social author @tms2072.bsky.social reads this coming Wed., Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., CT, via Zoom! Or if you're in Springfield, come watch her on the big screen! Where and how on the attachment, but the Webinar link is missouristate.zoom.us/j/87080217436.

Congratulations to @joelhans.bsky.social for being named winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award for his story collection, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World. This collection will be published by MCP later this year and Hans will receive the $1000 prize.

Congrats to @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social , whose story "How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space" from @mooncityreview.bsky.social 2025, has been selected for Best Small Fictions 2025! Thanks to Robert Shapard, Nathan Leslie, and Michelle Elvy for this honor!

One month left to submit to the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award! mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/32401...

@mooncitypress.bsky.social '24 Short Fiction finalists @sudhab.bsky.social @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Famous Chukwuemeka @elissafield.bsky.social Carrie Grinstead @joelhans.bsky.social @abbymanzella.bsky.social @magicmikewrites.bsky.social Matthew Purdy @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social Zachary Vickers

The @mooncitypress.bsky.social reading tonight at 6 has a door access code! Hope to see you there!

You can get an advanced copy of @sfreligh.bsky.social's Other Emergencies from @mooncitypress.bsky.social if you're at the AWP Bookfair this week, or you can preorder here! www.uapress.com/product/othe...

New @mooncityreview.bsky.social glued, drying, ready to be cut for LA!

@mooncitypress.bsky.social's AWP reading will feature @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, Clayton Clark, @sfreligh.bsky.social, Jeannine Hall Gailey, @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @artichokeheart.bsky.social, Michelle Ross, and @tms2072.bsky.social! Details on the attached flier!

@mooncityreview.bsky.social is cohosting a reading with @laurelreview.bsky.social, Puerto del Sol, and Bear Review at AWP! The MCR reps are @kelliborges2.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social. The reading is Thursday, March 27 at Bar Henry at 8 p.m. Come out and hear all these fab readers!

@mooncitypress.bsky.social author @avitusbcarle.bsky.social is reading at Missouri State University tonight at 7 p.m. in 0001 Hill Hall! Free and open to the public. Thanks to the Missouri State University English Department and the Springfield Regional Arts Council for supporting this event!

Presenting the cover for Other Emergencies: Stories by @sfreligh.bsky.social, forthcoming this March from @mooncitypress.bsky.social! Cover art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social and design by Shen Chen Hsieh. Preorder link coming soon.

Presenting the cover of @mooncityreview.bsky.social 2025, due out at AWP at the end of March! Featuring a dope painting by @courtneyb77.bsky.social and this sharp design by Shen Chen Hsieh. Complete author list and pre-order link coming soon!

The editors of @mooncityreview.bsky.social wish these authors congratulations and good luck in their nomination for Best Small Fictions! @jennystalter.bsky.social @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social

Some new Michelle Ross. www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/ross/dire...

Just picked up the first copies of Boneyard Heresies by @tms2072.bsky.social and they look fantastic! Pre-order this amazing collection, winner of Moon City Press's 2023 Moon City Poetry Award, with the link in the Comments!

Friends, my current full collection from Moon City Press is available for pre-order. Release date 2/2/25. Thanks for your support in advance.

Available for pre-order! Boneyard Heresies by Tina Schumann, winner of the 2023 Moon City Poetry Award. Reserve your copy today! www.uapress.com/product/bone...

Cover reveal! Presenting Boneyard Heresies by Tina Schumann, winner of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social 2023 Moon City Poetry Award, due December 1. Cover art by MJ Cullinane and design by Shen Chen Hsieh. Watch for a pre-order link soon!

Cover reveal! Presenting the face of These Worn Bodies, the forthcoming flash fiction collection from @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, winner of the 2023 Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award! Release date November 1; pre-order link up soon. Cover art and design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

The editors of Moon City Press are thrilled to announce @avitusbcarle.bsky.social as the winner of the 2023 Moon City Short Fiction Award! Avitus' collection, These Worn Bodies, will appear this fall from Moon City Press. She will also receive the $1000 first prize.

Congrats to Zoa Coudret and Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social for being selected for Best Microfiction this year for work that appeared in @mooncityreview.bsky.social! www.bestmicrofiction.com

@juliaannamorrison.bsky.social will be signing copies of Long Exposure at the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booth, #s 837-839, today, Saturday, 9-11 a.m.!

The new @mooncityreview.bsky.social has arrived! We have a great lineup of writers and a gorgeous cover. Copies will be available at AWP next week and then ship to contributors and online orderers the week after. Purchase with the link in the Comments.

The @mooncitypress.bsky.social reading for AWP 2024, featuring @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, Clayton Clark, @sfreligh.bsky.social, Trudy Lewis, @kimmagowan.bsky.social, Amanda Marbais, @juliaannamorrison.bsky.social, Phong Nguyen, @artichokeheart.bsky.social, Michelle Ross, and Bret Shepard.