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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · 15d

Awesome interview at Laurel Review with @mooncitypress.bsky.social poet @tms2072.bsky.social!

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Laurel Review - Tina Schumann

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · 17d

@mooncitypress.bsky.social poet @tms2072.bsky.social is doing a virtual poetry reading tonight for the Missouri State University English Department at 7 p.m., CT. The Zoom Webinar address is in the attached flier. Come on out and hear Tina read her fabulous poems!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · 19d

@mooncitypress.bsky.social author @tms2072.bsky.social reads this coming Wed., Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., CT, via Zoom! Or if you're in Springfield, come watch her on the big screen! Where and how on the attachment, but the Webinar link is missouristate.zoom.us/j/87080217436.

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 27

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Moon City Press - The 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award

• The Moon City Short Fiction Award is for an original collection of short fiction, written originally in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual pieces in the collection may be publ...

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 27

Sudha Balagopal and Zachary Vickers have been named runners-up in the competition.

Entries for the 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award are open now through June 16. Link below.

Thanks go to all the writers who entered, and for all those who support Moon City Press.

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 27

Joel Hans is a writer in Tucson. His fiction appears in Fairy Tale Review, Story, West Branch, The Journal, Booth, and in Best Small Fictions. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona, and now edits Astrolab, a literary journal in the form of a dynamic universe.

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 27

Congratulations to @joelhans.bsky.social for being named winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award for his story collection, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World. This collection will be published by MCP later this year and Hans will receive the $1000 prize.

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 27

Awesome!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 21

Congrats to @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social , whose story "How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space" from @mooncityreview.bsky.social 2025, has been selected for Best Small Fictions 2025! Thanks to Robert Shapard, Nathan Leslie, and Michelle Elvy for this honor!

The Best Small Fictions

Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 16

One month left to submit to the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award!

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Moon City Press - The 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award

• The Moon City Short Fiction Award is for an original collection of short fiction, written originally in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual pieces in the collection may be publ...

mooncitypress.submittable.com

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 6

Submissions for the 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award are now open through June 16. Link below.

Thank you to everyone who entered!

mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/32401...

Moon City Press - The 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award

• The Moon City Short Fiction Award is for an original collection of short fiction, written originally in English by a single or collaborative author. • Individual pieces in the collection may be publ...

mooncitypress.submittable.com

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 6

The @mooncitypress.bsky.social editors will choose a winner over the next couple of weeks, then that winner will then see their manuscript published by Moon City Press later this year and the author will receive the $1000 prize!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · May 6

@mooncitypress.bsky.social '24 Short Fiction finalists
@sudhab.bsky.social
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
Famous Chukwuemeka
@elissafield.bsky.social
Carrie Grinstead
@joelhans.bsky.social
@abbymanzella.bsky.social
@magicmikewrites.bsky.social
Matthew Purdy
@jenn-rossmann.bsky.social
Zachary Vickers

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Apr 15

@mooncitypress.bsky.social @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Mar 26

The @mooncitypress.bsky.social reading tonight at 6 has a door access code! Hope to see you there!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Mar 26

You can get an advanced copy of @sfreligh.bsky.social's Other Emergencies from @mooncitypress.bsky.social if you're at the AWP Bookfair this week, or you can preorder here!

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Other Emergencies

Stories by Sarah Freligh The 2025 Moon City Press Editors Choice Selection 978-0-913785-65-2 Paper April 2025

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Mar 21

New @mooncityreview.bsky.social
glued, drying, ready to be cut for LA!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Mar 19

@mooncitypress.bsky.social's AWP reading will feature @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, Clayton Clark, @sfreligh.bsky.social, Jeannine Hall Gailey, @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @artichokeheart.bsky.social, Michelle Ross, and @tms2072.bsky.social! Details on the attached flier!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Mar 14

@mooncityreview.bsky.social is cohosting a reading with @laurelreview.bsky.social, Puerto del Sol, and Bear Review at AWP! The MCR reps are @kelliborges2.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social. The reading is Thursday, March 27 at Bar Henry at 8 p.m. Come out and hear all these fab readers!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Feb 27

@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!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Feb 18

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.

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Feb 11

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!

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

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Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social · Jan 28

Some new Michelle Ross.

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Directions | matchbook

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