@joelhans.com will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair in Thursday, March 5, 3-4:30 p.m. at Booth #775!
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@joelhans.com will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair in Thursday, March 5, 3-4:30 p.m. at Booth #775!
27.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@kimmagowan.bsky.social signing her new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair on Friday, March 6, 10-11:30 a.m., Booth #775!
27.02.2026 16:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social signing at the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booth at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair, Thursday, March 5, 2026, Booth #775!
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This is going to be such an amazing event!
25.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The MCR cover is by Shen Chen Hsieh and the collections are by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
23.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to be bringing four new @mooncitypress.bsky.social
titles to the @awpwriter.org conference: a new issue of
@mooncityreview.bsky.social and new books by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, @joelhans.com, and
@kimmagowan.bsky.social.
Here's a cool new @jmwwjournal.bsky.social interview with @kimmagowan.bsky.social by Curtis Smith with lots of mentions of Kim's new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Last Day, due out next month!
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/s...
Cover reveal! @mooncityreview.bsky.social 2026! Debuting at @awpwriter.org in Baltimore in March. Gorgeous art by Shen Chen Hsieh. Author list and pre-order link coming soon!
10.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preorder alert! Snag your copy of @joelhans.com's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of @mooncitypress.bsky.social's 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award!
www.uapress.com/product/bedt...
Happy to see three @mooncitypress.bsky.social authors/friends in this new @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthology: @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and Michelle Ross!
A ton of @mooncityreview.bsky.social contributors, too!
www.bestmicrofiction.com
Congrats to @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social, whose story that originally appeared in @mooncityreview.bsky.social has been selected for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026! Thanks to Guest Editor Diane Seuss and series editors @gary79.bsky.social and @megpokrass.bsky.social!
www.bestmicrofiction.com
Congrats and good luck to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions nominees!
@mynachang.bsky.social, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, @kellypedro.bsky.social, @erinvachon.bsky.social, Nora Wagner
Don't forget to order the amazing My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, coming in early January from @mooncitypress.bsky.social!
www.uapress.com/product/my-f...
Congratulations to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees: @kelliborges2.bsky.social, @courtneyb77.bsky.social, Julia Coursey, @amymarques.bsky.social, and @rachel-weinhaus.bsky.social. Good luck!
05.12.2025 15:39 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees: Mikaela Hagen, @gabrielwelsch.bsky.social, @jstewartmiller.bsky.social, @duffusmatthew.bsky.social, Claire Hero, and @kellypedro.bsky.social.
Good luck!
Time to preorder My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Poetry Award! Coming in early January—reserve your copy today!
www.uapress.com/product/my-f...
Cover reveal! Presenting The Last Day by @kimmagowan.bsky.social, part of the Moon City Press Editors Choice Series! The Last Day is coming on March 3, 2026—preorder link up soon!
Masterful cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Awesome interview at Laurel Review with @mooncitypress.bsky.social poet @tms2072.bsky.social!
laurelreview.org/tina-schuman...
@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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@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.
22.09.2025 18:09 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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.
27.05.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
27.05.2025 15:21 — 👍 55 🔁 9 💬 12 📌 0Awesome!
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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!
21.05.2025 22:58 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One month left to submit to the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award!
mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/32401...
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...
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!
06.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@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