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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.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 Review @mooncityreview.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 Review @mooncityreview.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 Review @mooncityreview.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.

Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 27

oel 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.

Moon City Review @mooncityreview.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 Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 27

Thanks so much! It's so great!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.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.

altcurrentpress.com

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Wonderful!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Nice!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Glad to have it!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Congrats, Myna!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Love it!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

So glad to have this one!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Yay, Erin!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

So glad to have this, Maureen!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Yay!

Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Love it!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Congrats! And thanks for sharing!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 21

Congrats! Glad to have you!

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · May 16

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

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 Review @mooncityreview.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!

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 Review @mooncityreview.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 Review @mooncityreview.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 Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · Apr 15

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

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