Announcing The Finalists For The 2024 Moon City Poetry Award

Moon City Press is pleased to announce the 11 finalists in its 2024 Moon City Poetry Award book competition. The winning manuscript will be chosen by Moon City Press staff from among the following collections:

Laurel Anderson, The Xylem Canticles

Ifeoluwa Ayandele, My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body

Wayne Benson, I Am a Black Poet: Poems

Jennifer Bullis, Landscape With Unsettled Figures

Sarah Burke, Invisible Labor

Hollie Dugas, Filling the Gourd With Bees

Karen Holmberg, Reckless Shelter

Donald Illich, Fireworks Without a Sound

Elisabeth Murawski, Peripheral Outbreaks of Blue

Amanda Rabaduex, A Ghost in the Singing

Kim Roberts, Mouth to Mouth

Our editors will have a winner soon and then that manuscript will become a book late this year on Moon City Press! Thanks to everyone who entered, for your interest in being a part of our press.

Submissions for the 2025 Moon City Poetry Award are now open:

Moon City Press Submission Manager – The 2025 Moon City Poetry Award