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Small independent press sponsored by the Department of English at Missouri State University in Springfield. Publisher of books and Moon City Review.
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@mooncitypress.bsky.social author @avitusbcarle.bsky.social is reading at Missouri State University tonight at 7 p.m. in 0001 Hill Hall! Free and open to the public. Thanks to the Missouri State University English Department and the Springfield Regional Arts Council for supporting this event!

Presenting the cover for Other Emergencies: Stories by @sfreligh.bsky.social, forthcoming this March from @mooncitypress.bsky.social! Cover art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social and design by Shen Chen Hsieh. Preorder link coming soon.

Presenting the cover of @mooncityreview.bsky.social 2025, due out at AWP at the end of March! Featuring a dope painting by @courtneyb77.bsky.social and this sharp design by Shen Chen Hsieh. Complete author list and pre-order link coming soon!

The editors of @mooncityreview.bsky.social wish these authors congratulations and good luck in their nomination for Best Small Fictions! @jennystalter.bsky.social @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social

Some new Michelle Ross. www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/ross/dire...

Just picked up the first copies of Boneyard Heresies by @tms2072.bsky.social and they look fantastic! Pre-order this amazing collection, winner of Moon City Press's 2023 Moon City Poetry Award, with the link in the Comments!

Available for pre-order! Boneyard Heresies by Tina Schumann, winner of the 2023 Moon City Poetry Award. Reserve your copy today! www.uapress.com/product/bone...

Cover reveal! Presenting Boneyard Heresies by Tina Schumann, winner of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social 2023 Moon City Poetry Award, due December 1. Cover art by MJ Cullinane and design by Shen Chen Hsieh. Watch for a pre-order link soon!

Cover reveal! Presenting the face of These Worn Bodies, the forthcoming flash fiction collection from @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, winner of the 2023 Moon City Press Moon City Short Fiction Award! Release date November 1; pre-order link up soon. Cover art and design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

The editors of Moon City Press are thrilled to announce @avitusbcarle.bsky.social as the winner of the 2023 Moon City Short Fiction Award! Avitus' collection, These Worn Bodies, will appear this fall from Moon City Press. She will also receive the $1000 first prize.

Congrats to Zoa Coudret and Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social for being selected for Best Microfiction this year for work that appeared in @mooncityreview.bsky.social! www.bestmicrofiction.com

@juliaannamorrison.bsky.social will be signing copies of Long Exposure at the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booth, #s 837-839, today, Saturday, 9-11 a.m.!

The new @mooncityreview.bsky.social has arrived! We have a great lineup of writers and a gorgeous cover. Copies will be available at AWP next week and then ship to contributors and online orderers the week after. Purchase with the link in the Comments.

The @mooncitypress.bsky.social reading for AWP 2024, featuring @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, Clayton Clark, @sfreligh.bsky.social, Trudy Lewis, @kimmagowan.bsky.social, Amanda Marbais, @juliaannamorrison.bsky.social, Phong Nguyen, @artichokeheart.bsky.social, Michelle Ross, and Bret Shepard.

Cover reveal! Here's the cover of @mooncityreview.bsky.social 2024! Art by Andrea Hellman, design by Shen Chen Hsieh!

Congrats to @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social, Zoa Coudret, @stateofkate.bsky.social, @dieddisappointed.bsky.social, and Bryan D. Price for earning @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2024 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominations. Congrats to them and good luck!

Some new @kimmagowan.bsky.social. swamp-pink.cofc.edu/featured/ben...

Congrats to Janelle Drumwright, Susan Holcomb, Sara Henning, @saramoorewagner.bsky.social, Robert P. Kaye, and Skyler Melnick for snagging the 2023 @mooncityreview.bsky.social Pushcart Prize nominations!

Another box opening! This time it’s Reveal Codes by @artichokeheart.bsky.social Lee Ann Roripaugh, winner of the 2022 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award!

Box opening! Just got in our gorgeous copies of @juliaannamorrison.bsky.social’s Long Exposure! Yay!

Tonight at 7 p.m., CT, at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City: @juliaannamorrison.bsky.social reads for the first time from her debut collection from @mooncitypress.bsky.social, Long Exposure! Head on out if you're close! Reading with Anna are Elizabeth Metzger and Catherine Pond.

@artichokeheart.bsky.social's Reveal Codes, winner of the 2022 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award, is ready to ship—still time to preorder now! www.uapress.com/product/reve...

@lauraleewashburn.bsky.social brought down the house last night at her reading at Missouri State University!

@lauraleewashburn.bsky.social is reading at Missouri State University tonight, October 26, at 7 p.m., CT, in 102 Cheek Hall. Come on out and hear her read from her new book, The Book of Stolen Images! Sponsored by the Missouri State University Department of English. .

Moon City Review is just about done reading for its 2024 issue. Get your subs in before our November 1 cutoff! We are particularly looking for translations and graphic narratives, as well as book reviews and writers interested in writing a review. mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit

@lauraleewashburn.bsky.social is reading at Missouri State University this Thursday, October 26, at 7 p.m. in 102 Cheek Hall. Come on out and hear her read from her new book, The Book of Stolen Images!

@juliaannamorrison.bsky.social's poetry collection, Long Exposure, winner of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social 2022 Moon City Poety Award, is available for preorder! Reserve your copy today! www.uapress.com/product/long...

Great review of Adam Scheffler's Heartworm, winner of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social 2021 Moon City Poetry Award, by @mytwords.bsky.social in Sugarhouse Review! sugarhousereviews.blogspot.com/2023/10/hear...

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Revealing the cover of Long Exposure by @juliaannamorrison.bsky.social, winner of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social 2022 Moon City Poetry Award! This gorgeous cover was designed by Shen Chen Hsieh. Pre-order link soon!

Still plenty of time to preorder Reveal Codes by Lee Ann Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social, winner of the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award and due in November! www.uapress.com/product/reve...

New story by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in Eclectica Magazine! www.eclectica.org/v27n4/bertai...

Stellar work by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

New flash from @kimmagowan.bsky.social up at Bull. mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Moon City Review is on Bluesky!

Always a good time to submit to Moon City Review! We'll be wrapping up our selections for the 2024 issue pretty soon so we can have it ready for (the very early) AWP in Kansas City! mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit

Moon City Press is on Bluesky!