With 2017 officially completed, the editors at Moon City Review would like to congratulate all of the former contributors who published books during the past year. Once again, it is a long and illustrious list. As we did last year, we will break up the list according to genre, beginning with poetry:

Ace Boggess, Ultra Deep Field (Brick Road Poetry Press)

Sarah Browning, Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry Press)

Grant Clauser, The Magician’s Handbook (PS Books)

Jim Daniels, Rowing Inland (Wayne State University Press)

Darren C. Demaree, A Fire Without Light (Nixes Mate Books)

Wendy Drexler, Before There Was Before (Iris Press)

Jeff Hardin, No Other Kind of World (Texas Review Press)

Mark Irwin, A Passion According to Green (New Issues Press)

Keegan Lester, this shouldn’t be beautiful but it was & it was all i had so i drew it (Slope Editions)

Ken Letko, Bright Darkness (Flowstone Press)

Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide (Finishing Line Press)

Jason Olsen, Parakeet (BatCat Press)

Marjorie Stelmach, Falter (Cascade Books)

Kendra Tanacea, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees (Lost Horse Press)

William Trowbridge, Vanishing Point (Red Hen Press)

Francine Witte, Café Crazy (Kelsay Books)

Of course, we would especially like to recognize Kerri French‘s Every Room in the Body, which won the 2016 Moon City Poetry Award, and Walter Bargen‘s latest collection, Too Quick for the Living, published as part of Moon City Press’ Missouri Author Series.

Visit the Archives page for a complete list of the work these authors (and many others) contributed to Moon City Review.

Moon City Review is pleased to announce its 2017 nominees for the Pushcart Prize, all from our 2017 edition:

Sarah Freligh, “The Pedophile’s Wife”
Andy Jameson, “High Plains Drifter”
Kim Magowan, “Pop Goes the Weasel”
Staci R. Schoenfeld, “The Alligator Girl Becomes:
J. David Stevens, “The Babies”
Kendra Tanacea, “Diagnosis”

Congratulations to these six writers, chosen among a bevy of worthy candidates. Best of luck to them as Pushcart makes its final decisions.

To read these selections, be sure to purchase a copy of Moon City Review 2017!

Yesterday was the official release day for It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability (Squares and Rebels), Kelly Davio’s new collection of essays exploring what it means to live with an illness in our contemporary culture. Two of Kelly’s poems, “In the Infusion Center” and “Pantoum for Someone Else’s Child,” appeared in Moon City Review 2015. For more information regarding Kelly’s new collection, go here.

Congratulations, Kelly!

The editors at Moon City Press are thrilled to celebrate the official release day of Every Room in the Body, the latest collection from Kerri French and winner of the 2016 Moon City Poetry Award. Kerri is also a former Moon City Review contributor, her poem “32 Weeks” having appeared in Moon City Review 2017.

Go here to purchase your copy of Every Room in the Body.

Congratulations, Kerri!

The Editors of Moon City Press are thrilled to announce Kim Magowan of San Francisco as the winner of its 2017 Moon City Short Fiction Award for her collection Undoing. Kim’s book will be published by MCP in the spring, just in time for the 2018 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Tampa, FL, and she will receive the $1,000 cash prize. MCP books are distributed by the University of Arkansas Press.

MCP would also like to congratulate its ten other finalists in the competition, including the following authors, two of whom have been selected as official Runners-Up:

Rita Ciresi of Wesley Chapel, Florida
Dinah Cox of Stillwater, Oklahoma
Michael Don of Champaign, Illinois
Jessica Hollander of Kearney, Nebraska
Erica Plouffe Lazure of Exeter, New Hampshire
Amanda Marbais of Chicago, Illinois (Runner-Up)
Wendy Oleson of Walla Walla, Washington
Pablo Piñero Stillmann of Mexico City, Mexico (Runner-Up)
David Stevens of Midlothian, Virginia
Aaron Weiss of Silver Spring, Maryland

We would also like to thank and congratulate everyone who entered this year’s competition, as the talent pool we had to choose from was once again impressive, making our decision very, very difficult.

Visit the Moon City Short Fiction Award page on the Moon City Press website for more information regarding the 2018 competition.

Yesterday was the official release day for Muir Woods Or Bust (Coffeetown Press), the latest novel from Ian Woollen, whose story “Repeatable Sequence #2” appeared in Moon City Review 2017. Find out more about the novel here. Congratulations, Ian!