Kim Magowan Wins 2017 Moon City Short Fiction Award
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.
Former MCR Contributor Ian Woollen Publishes New Novel
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!
Moon City Press Announces Finalists For 2017 Moon City Short Fiction Award
The editors of Moon City Press are pleased to announce the finalists in their 2017 Moon City Short Fiction Award, our annual competition for short story collections. We received many, many worthwhile manuscripts, but have whittled the field down to books by these eleven authors:
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
Kim Magowan of San Francisco, California
Amanda Marbais of Chicago, Illinois
Wendy Oleson of Walla Walla, Washington
Pablo Piñero Stillmann of Mexico City, Mexico
David Stevens of Midlothian, Virginia
Aaron Weiss of Silver Spring, Maryland
We will spend the next few weeks picking one of these fine authors’ entries as the winner. The first-prize collection will be published by Moon City Press in the spring of 2018 and the author will receive a $1000 honorarium. All the other finalists will be considered for publication as well.
Thanks to everyone who entered! We have an impossible task ahead of us, to choose just one book for our top prize. Stay tuned.
Former MCR Contributor Meg Eden Publishes New Young-Adult Novel
Today is the official release day of Post-High School Reality Quest (Rare Bird Books), a young-adult novel from Meg Eden, whose poem “The Excavation” appeared in Moon City Review 2014.
More information about the collection can be found here. Congratulations, Meg!
Former MCR Contributor Neil Mathison Publishes New Collection Of Essays
Today is the official release day of Volcano: An A to Z and Other Essays about Geology, Geography, and Geo-Travel in the American West (Bauhan Publishing), the new collection from Neil Mathison, whose essay “Dodd Narrows” appeared in Moon City Review 2013.
More information about the collection can be found here. Congratulations, Neil!
Final Day To Enter Contest For 2017 Moon City Poetry Award
This is the final day to take advantage of the extended deadline for our 2017 Moon City Poetry Award, a contest for full-length collections. Past winners include Sarah Freligh, Jeannine Hall Gailey, and Kerri French. Click here for more information and to enter today!
Two Days Remaining To Enter Contest For 2017 Moon City Poetry Award
There are just a couple more days to take advantage of the extended deadline (June 1) for Moon City Press’ 2017 Moon City Poetry Award, a contest for full-length collections. Past winners include Sarah Freligh, Jeannine Hall Gailey, and Kerri French. Click here for more information and to enter today!
Former MCR Contributors Kendra Tanacea And Jeannine Hall Gailey To Read At King’s Books In Tacoma Tonight
King’s Books in Tacoma, WA, is hosting a poetry reading for two former Moon City Review contributors, Jeannine Hall Gailey and Kendra Tanacea, tonight at 7:00 p.m. Jeannine’s poetry appeared in both Moon City Review 2015 and Moon City Review 2016, and her most recent collection, Field Guide to the End of the World, won the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award. Kendra’s poetry appeared in Moon City Review 2017, and she recently published a new collection, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees, through Lost Horse Press.
Visit the event’s Facebook page for more details.
Moon City Press To Host Student Invitational Reading
Moon City Press will be hosting the Spring 2017 Student Invitational tomorrow night. This will be the latest in a series of readings featuring students from Missouri State University, as selected by the Creative Writing faculty. This semester’s event features fiction writers Beth Fiset, Jupiter Kieschnick, and Shannon Wick; poets Anthony Isaac Bradley and Alex Webster; essayist Asia Key; and graphic narratist Chandler Wilhelmi.
The event will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 5, in the Plaster Student Union Theater. The proceedings are sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and the College of Arts & Letters. As always, our readings are free and open to the public.
Hope to see you there!