Moon City Press

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....

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