Emily Rinkema Wins The 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award

The editors of Moon City Press congratulate Emily Rinkema of Burlington, Vermont, for winning the 2025 Moon City Short Fiction Award competition for her book, Dead Mother Card! Emily will receive the $1,000 cash prize and see her book published by MCP in early 2027.

Emily’s bio: Emily Rinkema lives in northern Vermont. Her stories have recently appeared in Cutleaf, Moon City Review, Milk Candy Review, and Wigleaf and have been selected for The Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. You can read more at https://www.emilyrinkema.com/ or follow her on BS or IG @emilyrinkema.

Runners-up in the contest include Timothy Boudreau and Zachary Tyler Vickers.

Thanks to everyone who entered. We received a record number of submissions this year, so many of them worthy of this honor. We are excited to be a publisher in this extremely exciting time, with so many talented writers.