Moon City Review is now accepting entries for the 2018 MSU Student Literary Competitions. Students may submit fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The contests are open to all undergraduate and graduate students at Missouri State University. Winners will receive $200 and publication in the 2019 Moon City Review. The deadline to submit is November 5th. Students may submit their … [Read more...] about Announcing the 2018 MSU Student Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry Competitions
Join us for our first reading of the semester. Kim Magowan will be reading at the Student Exhibition Center on Thursday, October 4th at 6pm. Her short story collection Undoing won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award and was published in March 2018. Her collection made The New York Times shortlist for short story debuts. You can read the article on the NYT website. Her … [Read more...] about Moon City Reading Series: Kim Magowan
Poet Walter Bargen will be reading this Friday at the PSU as part of the Missouri Author Series. Bargen was appointed Missouri's first poet laureate in 2008 and received a BA in philosophy and an MA in English Education from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Bargen is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry, including Days Like This Are Necessary: New and … [Read more...] about Poet Walter Bargen reading for Missouri Author Series
Francine J. Harris, author of play dead, will be reading this Friday at the PSU as part of the Moon City Reading Series. Harris is the winner of the 2017 Lambda Literary and Audre Lorder Awards and a finalist for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her first collection, allegiance, was a finalist for the 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery and PEN Open Book Awards. Originally from … [Read more...] about Poet Francine J. Harris reading for Moon City Reading Series
The English Department is excited to announce the winners of the 2017 MSU Student Literary Competitions. The poetry competition was judged by MSU alum Alexandra Teague, author of The Wise and Foolish Builders: Poems and The Principles Behind Flotation: A Novel. Five finalists were sent to Teague, and she selected graduate student Brandon Henry's entry "Stand for New Anthem" … [Read more...] about Announcing the winners of the 2017 MSU Student Literary Competitions