Moon City Short Fiction Award

The 2019 Moon City Short Fiction Award is now closed! Finalists will be announced later this year.

The 2020 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 published in periodicals but not yet collected and published in full-length manuscript form.

Entries may include short shorts, short fiction, and/or up to one novella. Please include a table of contents and acknowledgements page.

Open to all writers not associated with Moon City Press or its judges, past or present. Students, employees, and alumni of Missouri State University are ineligible.

Manuscripts should fall between 30,000 and 65,000 words.

Manuscripts should be submitted via Submittable, https://mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit

A $25 entry fee is due via Submittable at the time of submission; entry fees are nonrefundable.

Simultaneous submissions are permitted, though manuscripts should be withdrawn immediately if accepted elsewhere.

Deadline is October 1, 2019. Winners will be notified by Summer 2020 and the winner will be published in Spring 2021.

First prize: $1,000, publication by Moon City Press (including international distribution through the University of Arkansas Press), and a standard royalty contract. Ten additional finalists will be named and considered for publication.

For questions, please contact Editor Michael Czyzniejewski at mczyzniejewski@missouristate.edu.

Past Winners Of The Moon City Short Fiction Award:

2018: Amanda Marbais, Claiming a Body
2017: Kim Magowan, Undoing
2016: Michelle Ross, There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You
2015: Laura Hendrix Ezell, A Record of Our Debts
2014: Cate McGowan, True Places Never Are

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