Reminder: The release party for Amanda Marbais’ debut collection, Claiming a Body, will be tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at Read/Write Library Chicago. Amanda will be reading her work alongside Jac Jemc, Sara Wainscott, and Michael Czyzniejewski.

If you’re in the area, please attend this wonderful event!

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We would like to enthusiastically thank Jason Teal, Nathan Floom, and especially Casey Smith for Heavy Feather Review‘s wonderful new review of Amanda Marbais’ debut collection, Claiming A Body, winner of the 2018 Moon City Short Fiction Award.

Moon City Press is excited to announce the next book in our Missouri Author Series: Roundabout by Phong Nguyen. We’re thrilled to have Phong and his amazing experimental novel join our amazing family of authors and books. Watch for it this December 1!

Phong Nguyen is the author of a previous novel, The Adventures of Joe Harper (Outpost19, 2016, winner of the Prairie Heritage Book Award), and two story collections, Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History (Mastodon Publishing, 2016) and Memory Sickness and Other Stories (Elixir Press, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award). He co-edited the volume Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master with Dan Chaon and Norah Lind. His stories have appeared in more than 50 national literary journals in print and online, including Agni, Boulevard, Chattahoochee Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, North American Review, and our own Moon City Review.

He is currently the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where he lives with his wife—the artist Sarah Nguyen—and their three children.

Please consider coming out to support our reading celebrating the life and work of poet and former MSU professor Jane Hoogestraat this Friday at 6:00 p.m. in the PSU Union Club. Moon City Press had the honor of publishing her posthumous collection, Here on This Plain, this past fall. Many of Jane’s friends, students, and colleagues will be reading her work.

We are pleased to congratulate Kathy Goodkin of Greensboro, North Carolina, for winning the 2018 Moon City Poetry Award! Kathy’s manuscript, Crybaby Bridge, will be published in the fall of this year. She will also receive the $1000 cash prize.

Kathy Goodkin is an editor for feminist publisher Gazing Grain Press, a manuscript consultant for the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and an online teaching artist for the Loft. Her chapbook, Sleep Paralysis, was published by dancing girl press in 2017. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Field, Fourteen Hills, RHINO, Redivider, The Volta, and elsewhere.

We’d like to thank everyone who entered this year’s contest—by far the most submissions we’d ever received—and wish everyone luck with their manuscripts. Entries for the 2019 Moon City Poetry Award are currently being accepted.

Announcing Moon City Review‘s nominations for the Pushcart Prize:

Fiction:

Clayton Krollman, “Hierophants”
Lucas Southworth, “This Neighborhood”
Mary Troy, “Butter Cakes”

Poetry:

Melissa Atkinson Mercer, “Ghost Exhibit 4.1”
Robin Cedar, “I Was Fourteen When I Found the Shoe”
Lukas Ray Hall, “The Way It Dies”

Congratulations, all!

Reminder: Don’t miss Kate Lebo and Samuel Ligon reading at 6 p.m. tonight at the MSU Student Exhibition Center on Walnut Street, as they bring their Pie & Whiskey Reading Series to Springfield! The duo will be reading selections from the series’ inaugural anthology, Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze. They will also be talking about the series, its inspiration, and how they put together the anthology.

If you’re free tomorrow night, be sure to catch writers and editors Kate Lebo and Samuel Ligon at 6 p.m. at the MSU Student Exhibition Center on Walnut Street, as they bring their Pie & Whiskey Reading Series to Springfield! The duo will be reading selections from the series’ inaugural anthology, Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze. They will also be talking about the series, its inspiration, and how they put together the anthology.