We’re thrilled to announce that Sarah Layden’s “The Jumper,” which first appeared in Moon City Review 2019, has been selected by final judge Michael Martone to appear in Best Microfiction 2020. Congratulations, Sarah!
For the full list of selections:
http://www.bestmicrofiction.com/
The anthology will be available in April.
The editors of Moon City Press would like to congratulate Pablo Piñero Stillmann of Mexico City, Mexico, for being chosen as winner of the 2019 Moon City Short Fiction Award for his collection, Our Brains and the Brains of Miniature Sharks. The author holds an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University. He’s also been the recipient of Mexico’s two top grants for young writers: The Foundation for Mexican Literature (f,l,m) and The National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA). His fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in, among other journals, Ninth Letter, Bennington Review, The Normal School, The Summerset Review, The Rumpus, and Moon City Review. His debut novel, Temblador, was published in 2014 by Conaculta.
The finalists and runners-up of the 2019 competition are as follows:
Andrew Bertaina
Angela Buck
Timothy DeLizza
Emily Doak
JoeAnn Hart
Bradford Kammin: RUNNER-UP
Nathan Oates: RUNNER-UP
Jenn Stroud Rossmann
Marvin Shackelford
Rob McClure Smith
Our Brains and the Brains of Miniature Sharks will be published in 2020 by MCP, and its author will receive the $1,000 prize upon publication.
Entries for the 2020 Moon City Short Fiction Award are still being accepted through December 15.
Moon City’s editors would like to thank everyone who entered this contest for helping to make it so competitive, so great. We received so many fantastic entries, we only wish we could publish more of them alongside this winning book.
We so love the cover of our next issue, Moon City Review 2020! The art is by Missouri State University’s own Jordan Seyer and is designed by the brilliant Charli Barnes. This issue (so far) features work by writers such as Sarah Browning, John Gallaher, Jennifer Howard, Gary Leising, Kim Magowan, John McNally, Jessica Mehta, Michelle Ross, Rebecca Schumejda, Jennifer Wortman, and lots of other talented folks. Debuting at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference in San Antonio, then everywhere else right after!
The editors of Moon City Press and Moon City Review are happy to announce that, after a three-year hiatus, we are rededicating ourselves to publishing regular reviews of contemporary books, focusing on recent releases of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and graphic narrative from small/independent/university presses.
To head this operation, we’ve taken on recent staff member and Missouri State University grad Katelyn Grisham as official Reviews Editor. Katelyn will be acquiring books for review, searching out reviewers, setting a schedule, and editing the content.
If you would like to see our guidelines or submit a review, please use our Submittable portal:
https://mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/16558/book-reviews
If you have a new book to review or are interested in becoming a reviewer for MCR, contact Katelyn at katelyn094@live.missouristate.edu.
Contributors include Whitney Collins, Ian Denning, Dana Diehl, Michelle Donahue, Michelle Gaffney, Maggie Graber, Brianna McNish, Loria Mendoza, Scarlett Peterson, Alyssa Proujansky, Lana Spendl, Allison Wyss, Allyson Young, and many others.
$16.95
Contributors include Alyse Bensel, Roy Bentley, Debra Kang Dean, Susan Frith, Ronald Koertge, Gary Leising, George Looney, Wendy Oleson, Simon Perchik, Leslie Pietrzyk, Ron Riekki, Lucas Southworth, Gabriel Welsch, Francine Witte, and many others.
$16.95
Contributors include Walter Bargen, Pat Daneman, Karen Donovan, Sarah Freligh, Kerri French, Angie Macri, Kim Magowan, John McNally, Travis Massotti, J. David Stevens, Laura Lee Washburn, and Charles Harper Webb.
$16.95
Contributors include Tricia Asklar, B.J. Best, Sara Browning, Jim Daniels, Nandini Dhar, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Laura Hendrix Ezell, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Mark Irwin, Sandra Marchetti, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and William Trowbridge.
$14.95
Contributors to MCR 2015 include Matt Cashion, Grant Clauser, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Cate McGowan, Curtis Smith, Marjorie Stelmach, William Trowbridge, Charles Harper Webb, and Wei He.
$14.95
Contributors to this 2014 edition of MCR include Craig Albin, Roy Bentley, Vanessa Blakeslee, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, George Looney, Richard Newman, Phoebe Reeves, Amber Sparks, Matthew Vollmer, and Gabriel Welsch.
$15.95