Moon City Press’ 2026 edition proudly boasts selections by established and up-and-coming writers, including poems, short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, graphic narrative, and translation.

The issue includes work by the following authors and artists:

R. Allen Abshire, Liz Ahl, Molly Akin, Mario Aliberto III, Connor Beeman, Rebecca Bernard, Caroline Beuley, Patricia Q. Bidar, Mary Biddinger, Laurie Blauner, Ronda Piszk Broatch, Polly Buckingham, Mark Budman, Mary Kovaleski Byrnes, Luanne Castle, Kim Chinquee, Grant Clauser, Chella Courington, JI Daniels, Lynn Domina, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Lindsey Godfrey Eccles, Nathan Fako, Lauren Fath, Blue Fay, Gary Fincke, Jeff Friedman, Susan Fuchtman, E.C. Gannon, Scott Garson, Aasiya Mirza Glover, Jeremy Griffin, Chelsea Guo, Shivani Gupta, Umma Habiba, D.E. Hardy, Jeff Harvey, Quamrul Hassan, Rachael Hershon, Dennis Hinrichsen, Shen Chen Hsieh, Sarah Lynn Hurd, Brett Hymel, Jr., Olivia Jacobson, Mitch James, Dustin King, Jessica Klimesh, Ray Kruger, Dell Lemmon, Lindsay Li, Svetlana Litvinchuk, Melissa Llanes Brownlee , Cameron MacKenzie, Erin MacNair, Michael Malan, Andrea Marcusa, Andrew Graham Martin, Victoria Martynko, Nora Maynard, Dan McDermott, Cate McGowan, Laura Leigh Morris, Devan Murphy, Will Musgrove, Kurt Olsson, Pamela Painter, Cheryl Pappas, Hayden Park, Alan Michael Parker, Heather Paul-Tillery, Ryan Pierce, Dan Pinkerton, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Eric Rasmussen, nat raum, August Reid, Scott Repass, Hanna Reynditskiy, Trinity Richardson, Emily Rinkema, Michelle Ross, Josh Russell, Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez, Naphisa Senanarong, George Singleton, James Keith Smith, Sarp Sozdinler, Lana Spendl, Jenny Stalter, Alyssa McIntire Start, Mae Juniper Stokes, Justine Sweeney, Justin Taroli, Alexandra van de Kamp, C. Zhang, Ruiyan Zhu.