Time to preorder My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé, winner of the 2024 Moon City Press Moon City Poetry Award! Coming in early January—reserve your copy today!

Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by Joel Hans, winner of the 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026. Preorder link coming soon.

Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.

Cover reveal! Presenting The Last Day by Kim Magowan, 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.

Cover reveal for My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by Ifeoluwa Ayandele, the winner of the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award! This book will be out from Moon City Press on January 6, 2026. Preorder link coming soon!

Cover art by Elisabeth Anderson with design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

We are excited for the return of former Moon City Review assistant editor and Missouri State University alum Bailey Gaylin Moore for a reading from her new essay collection, Thank You for Staying With Me.

She’ll be reading in Karls 101 on the MSU campus tonight at 7 p.m., so come on out! It’s free and open to the public.

The reading is sponsored by the Missouri State University English Department and the Missouri State Reynolds College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities.

Congrats to Audra Kerr Brown, whose story “How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space” from Moon City Review 2025 has been selected for The Best Small Fictions! Thanks to Robert Shapard, Nathan Leslie, and Michelle Elvy for this honor!

Moon City Review is co-hosting a reading with Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, and Bear Review at AWP in L.A.! The MCR reps are the fabulous Kelli Short Borges and the stupendous Amorak Huey. The reading is at Bar Henry, Thursday, March 27, at 8 p.m., free and open to the public. Come on out and hear all of these amazing readers!

Here’s the complete cover and lineup for Moon City Review 2025, which will debut at AWP in a couple of weeks and then be available for order soon after:

Maureen Aitken, Amy Ash, Fez Avery, Abbie Barker, MB Barker, Zack Bean, Laurel Benjamin, Andrew Bertaina, Jake Bienvenue, Kelli Short Borges, Melissa Boston, Sarah Boudreau, Timothy Boudreau, Kevin Boyle, Craig Buchner, Burton Courtney, Myna Chang, Grant Chemidlin, Christine H. Chen, Brad Clompus, Johnny Cordova, Danny Coudriet, Julia Coursey, Kristin R. Crocker, Uyen Phuong Dang, Jim Daniels, Brianna Di Monda, Matthew Duffus, Jonathan Everitt, Jacklin Farley, Zachary Forrest Y Salazar, John Gallaher, Will Gibbons, Evelyn Gill, Madeline Graham, Mikaela Hagen, L Mari Harris, Claire Hero, Amorak Huey, Rachael Inciarte, Mickie Kennedy, James King, Frances Klein, Sydney Koeplin, Kathryn Kulpa, Patience Mackarness, Angie Macri, Kim Magowan, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Andrea Marcusa, Amy Marques, Adam McOmber, Michael Meyerhofer, Jennifer Stewart Miller, Claudia Monpere, Lynn Mundell, Richard Newman, Tom Noyes, William Palomo, Rachel Marie Patterson, Kelly Pedro, Melanie Pierce, Matthew Pitt, Meg Pokrass, Kimberly Ann Priest, Jordan Ranft, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Elizabeth Rosen, Karen Schauber, M.C. Schmidt, Sonya Schneider, Annie Schumacher, Dara-Lyn Shrager, Onna Solomon, Brooke Spalding, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Jesse Strauss, Brendan Todt, William Torrey, Erin Vachon, Nora Wagner, Wendy Wallace, Katie Ward, Vallie Lynn Watson, Rachel Weinhaus, Gabriel Welsch, Nathan Willis, Wendy Wisner, Ellen June Wright, Allison Wyss, and Claire Zhou.

Cover art by Courtney Burton and design by Shen Chen Hsieh.