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!
The issue includes work by the following authors: 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, Courtney Burton, 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 Disario 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.
This edition includes work by authors Katy Aisenberg, Mikki Aronoff, Matt Barrett, Patricia Q. Bidar, Michael Brasier, Daniel Brennan, Audra Kerr Brown, JW Burns, Avitus B. Carle, Kevin Carollo, Christopher Citro, Chloe N. Clark, Marisa P. Clark, Maureen Clark, Lori D’Angelo, Daphne Daugherty, Benjamin Davis, Cat Dixon, Lynn Domina, Denise Duhamel, Coby-Dillon English, Jordan Escobar, Shreya Fadia, Gary Fincke, Jessica Goodfellow, Gabrielle Griffis, Mary Grimm, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Matt Gulley, Summer Hammond, Michael Hardin, Andrea Hellman, Marcy Rae Henry, Dustin M. Hoffman, Shen Chen Hsieh, John Jodzio, Ruth Joffre, Marci Rae Johnson, Alex Juffer, Stephen Lackaye, Blair Lee, Eliot Li, Melissa Llanes Brownlee, Julia LoFaso, Evelyn Maguire, Abby Manzella, Nicole Markert, Laurie Marshall, Ross McMeekin, Nathan D. Metz, Will Musgrove, Richard Newman, Derek N. Otsuji, Quentin Parker, Aimee Parkison, Megan Paslawski, Jason Peck, Meghan Phillips, Keith J. Powell, Jeremy Radin, Teresa Buzo Salas, Austin Sanchez-Moran, Sarah L. Sassone, Autumn Schraufnagel, Leland Seese, Shyla Shehan, Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Mary Simmons, Brian Simoneau, Dane Slutzky, Jenny Stalter, Andrew Stancek, Kevin Sterne, Thea Swanson, Laura Valeri, Anita Vijayakumar, Laura Lee Washburn, Patrick Wilcox, B. Luke Wilson, Francine Witte, Kirby Wright, and Kenton K. Yee.
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.
Presenting the cover of Moon City Review 2025, due out at AWP at the end of March! Featuring a dope painting by Courtney Burton and this sharp design by Shen Chen Hsieh.
Complete author list and pre-order link coming soon!
Congrats and good luck to Audra Kerr Brown, Austin Sanchez-Moran, Anita Vijayakumar, Sarah Sassone, and Thea Swanson, Moon City Review‘s 2024 nominees for Best Microfiction!
Congrats to Shreya Fadia, B. Luke Wilson, Patricia Q. Bidar, Audra Kerr Brown, Daphne Daugherty, and Benjamin S. Grossberg, Moon City Review’s 2024 nominees for The Pushcart Prize!