Download or read book Moon City Review 2022 A Literary Anthology written by Michael Czyzniejewski and published by Moon City Press. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moon City Press's most recent literary annual presents an eclectic mix of contemporary voices. Established names and new voices sit side-by-side in the deluxe edition. The 2022 issue includes writers such as Sudha Balagopal, A.J. Bermudez, Laure Blauner, Danit Brown, Jim Daniels, Cherie Hunter Day, Tommy Dean, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Gary Finke, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Michele Finn Johnson, Gary Leising, Michael Meyerhofer, Travis Mossotti, Pedro Ponce, Noley Reid, Ryan Ridge, Cathy Ulrich, Tara Isabel Zambrano, Lucy Zhang, and many, many more.
Download or read book Moon City Review 2021 written by Michael Czyzniejewski and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moon City Press's most recent edition features an array of brand-new contemporary literature. Up-and-coming and established writers contribute short stories, poems, essays, and translations that help shape the future of American letters. The issue includes voices such as Amanda Auchter, Wendy Barker, María Alejandra Barrios, Roy Bentley, Andrew Bertaina, Ace Boggess, Meagan Cass, Pat Daneman, Ed Falco, Kathy Goodkin, Alyse Knorr, Erica Plouffe Lazur, Nancy Chen Long, Kim Magowan, Matthew Pitt, Michelle Ross, Bret Shepard, Noel Sloboda, Anthony Varallo, Siamak Vossoughi, Laura Lee Washburn, Charles Harper Webb, Gabe Welsch, Jeremy T. Wilson, and many others.
Download or read book Moon City Review 2023 written by Michael Czyzniejewski and published by Moon City Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moon City Press's most recent literary annual features new work by some of the world's most exciting authors. Both established and up-and-coming writers contribute essays, poems, shorts stories, translations, and sequential art that help shape our current literary profile. This edition includes writers Sally Ashton, Michael Beard, Rebecca Bernard, Marin Bodakov, Megan Borocki, Margaret Emma Brandl, Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Clara Burghelea, Alyx Chandler, Abigail Chang, Clayton Adam Clark, Zoa Coudret, Darren Demaree, Aran Donovan, Janelle Drumwright, Sandra Fees, Amy Fleury, Sherrie Flick, Harrison Gatlin, Kate Gehan, Rich Glinnen, Susanna Goldfinger, Melissa Goodnight, Matthew Guenette, Sara Henning, Ric Hoeben, Susan Holcomb, Vladislav Hristov, Shen Chen Hsieh, Blake Johnson, Robert P. Kaye, Shane Kowalski, Kathryn Kulpa, Anna Leahy, DS Levy, Emily Lowe, Ma Hua, Angie Macri, Stefan Manasia, Skyler Melnick, Nancy Carol Moody, Laura Leigh Morris, Mark Neely, Shawn Nocher, Jamie Odeneal, Suphil Lee Park, Matthias Politycki, Bryan D. Price, Kimberly Ann Priest, Sharmin Rahman, Michael Rogner, Luke Rolfes, Leigh Camacho Rourks, Matt Rowan, Adam Scheffler, Teo Shannon, Martha E. Snell, Brendan Stephens, Chelsea Stickle, Katerina Stoykova, SM Stubbs, Virgil Suárez, Michaella Thornton, Katie Tian, Meg Tuite, Cameron Vanderwerf, J. Haase Vetter, Sara Moore Wagner, Kieron Walquist, Mike White, Ian C. Williams, Lauren D. Woods, Ellen June Wright, Daniel Zeiders, and Winnie Zeng.
Download or read book Moon City Review 2020 written by Michael Czyzniejewski and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short stories are gifts from students at Missouri State University to clients and workers at The Kitchen, Inc. of Springfield, Missouri. The students were enrolled in a creative writing class and prepared for this assignment by conducting interviews at The Kitchen. The final two stories are by David L. Harrison.
Download or read book Moon City Review 2024 written by Michael Czyzniejewski and published by Moon City Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moon City Press's literary annual features new writing in its latest edition by a bevy of literary voices. Up-and-coming writers and familiar names contribute essays, poems, shorts stories, flash fiction, art, design, and translations that aid in the ushering of a new dawn of literature. This edition includes work by authors Katy Aisenberg, Mikki Aronoff, Matt Barrett, Patricia Q. Bidar, Michael Brasier, Daniel Brennan, Audra Kerr Brown, JW Burns, Avitus B. Carle, Kevin Carollo, Christopher Citro, Chloe N. Clark, Marisa P. Clark, Maureen Clark, Lori D'Angelo, Daphne Daugherty, Benjamin Davis, Cat Dixon, Lynn Domina, Denise Duhamel, Coby-Dillon English, Jordan Escobar, Shreya Fadia, Gary Fincke, Jessica Goodfellow, Gabrielle Griffis, Mary Grimm, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Matt Gulley, Summer Hammond, Michael Hardin, Andrea Hellman, Marcy Rae Henry, Dustin M. Hoffman, Shen Chen Hsieh, John Jodzio, Ruth Joffre, Marci Rae Johnson, Alex Juffer, Stephen Lackaye, Blair Lee, Eliot Li, Melissa Llanes Brownlee, Julia LoFaso, Evelyn Maguire, Abby Manzella, Nicole Markert, Laurie Marshall, Ross McMeekin, Nathan D. Metz, Will Musgrove, Richard Newman, Derek N. Otsuji, Quentin Parker, Aimee Parkison, Megan Paslawski, Jason Peck, Meghan Phillips, Keith J. Powell, Jeremy Radin, Teresa Buzo Salas, Austin Sanchez-Moran, Sarah L. Sassone, Autumn Schraufnagel, Leland Seese, Shyla Shehan, Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Mary Simmons, Brian Simoneau, Dane Slutzky, Jenny Stalter, Andrew Stancek, Kevin Sterne, Thea Swanson, Laura Valeri, Anita Vijayakumar, Laura Lee Washburn, Patrick Wilcox, B. Luke Wilson, Francine Witte, Kirby Wright, and Kenton K. Yee.
Download or read book Maria in the Moon written by Louise Beech and published by Orenda Books. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Quirky, darkly comic, but always heartfelt, this original and sad story has wonderful characters and will linger long in your memory' Sunday Mirror 'A Stirring novel, beautifully written' Irish Times A devastating memory emerges ... that changes everything, in this dark and moving novel by the bestselling author of How To Be Brave and The Lion Tamer Who Lost 'Like a cold spider, the memory stirred in my head and spun an icy web about my brain. Someone else crawled in. I remembered' Thirty-one-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year. She can't remember when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a painful breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges ... and changes everything. Dark, poignant and deeply moving, Maria in the Moon is an examination of the nature of memory and truth, and the defences we build to protect ourselves, when we can no longer hide... 'Part psychological thriller, part love story and fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine will love it' Red Magazine 'A beautiful and compassionate read' Prima Magazine 'Beech's exploration of the effects of childhood trauma keeps the reader intrigued until the end' Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist 'As heartbreaking as the book ends up being, it's a title worth wading into and rolling with' Book Riot 'Beautifully constructed, laugh-out-loud funny in places, and achingly sad in others. It's such a beautifully told story of loss and gain. Equal parts Victoria Wood, Alan Bennett and John Irving, all rolled up into an emotive, heart-breaking story. I completely fell in love' John Marrs 'A beautiful, and heart-achingly touching read' LoveReading
Download or read book New Moons written by Kazim Ali and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by North American Muslims.
Download or read book One Person Away from You written by Andrew Bertaina and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Moon City Short Fiction Award One Person Away From You is a collection of stories that oscillates between the fantastic and the familiar: for every woman who turns into a swan, there's a man who bungles a romantic relationship in Italy; for every sky that rains a torrent of laughter, there's a husband reminiscing about his honeymoon. Above all, the stories explore our common lot of lostness and longing, our question of whether our life and loves are the right ones or the product of some cosmic error. Whether it's a sea appearing suddenly in a bone dry valley, an angel musing on his relationship with a mortal woman, or a narrator yearning for an absent lover the deeply emotional stories search for meaning. Throughout this collection, characters and entire towns search through the constructs of identity, time, fairy tales, and love letters, to find the flicker of constancy in the sea of change that is human life.
Download or read book A Book of Luminous Things written by Czesław Miłosz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz personal selection of 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages and around the world.
Download or read book Graffiti Moon written by Cath Crowley and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Chasing Charlie Duskin and the Gracie Faltrain series An intense and exhilarating 24 hours in the lives of four teenagers on the verge: of adulthood, of HSC, of finding out just who they are, and who they want to be. Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist. Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose. Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing eggs at her probably wasn't the best way to show it. Jazz and Leo are slowly encircling each other. Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award Ethel Turner Prize 2011 Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards' Young Adult Fiction 2011 Shortlisted for Children's Book Council Awards' Older Readers 2011 Shortlisted for the Victoria Premier's Literary Award Prize for Writing for Young Adults 2011 Shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards' Young Adult Book Award 2011
Download or read book Place Where Presence Was written by Bret Shepard and published by Moon City Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Moon City Poetry Award "Contour lines // down your side of the bed ...": Such lines mark the Place Where Presence Was, Bret Shepard's debut full-length collection and winner of the Moon City Poetry Award. Here, Shepard probes intimacy and its absence through topographical imagery, with endlessly inventive ways of approaching his theme. In one poem, X marks the spot (on a calendar); in another, the title poem, the invisible path of his lover through his home are viewed as marks of elevation. For Shepard, the map is a tool to make sense of the world and our relationship to it, and the poems themselves add another dimension from which to view the spaces between us. These are poems of longing, with the emphasis on "long," and a recognition of all the ways desire stretches distance ever farther --and of "the necessary ways we quiet / into nothing at all."
Download or read book Harrow written by Joy Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. "She practices ... camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams’s imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen’s failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a “resort” on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call “Big Girl.” In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature’s beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this “gabby seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, an army of the aged and ill, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth”? Rivetingly strange and beautiful, and delivered with Williams’s searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is their intertwined tale of paradise lost and of their reasons—against all reasonableness—to try and recover something of it.
Download or read book Ghost Parachute written by Brett Pribble and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 105 flash fiction stories published in Ghost Parachute magazine. Ghost Parachute seeks to publish writing that is unapologetically bold. We wish to lose ourselves in fresh and vibrant imagery. We want to read what we've always known but were too afraid to say. We want to read a story unlike any other story we've read before. It's easy to view the world in black and white, so Ghost Parachute paints a streak of gray. Great stories don't ride the popular, easy narrative, and great characters are often impossible to love yet we love them anyway. We aim to unleash the spider behind the rose and dance in the surreal.
Download or read book Pack Up the Moon written by Kristan Higgins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They used to joke about it. Like many brilliant scientists, Josh sometimes had trouble remembering things that needed doing in the “real” world—like buying groceries, eating regular meals, and talking to people. But he was happy to have his beloved wife, Lauren, remind him with her “honey do” lists. He just never realized how much he would need one when she was gone. Being a widower is not something Joshua Park ever expected. Given his solitary job, small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness he’s always suffered from, Josh has no idea how to negotiate this new, unwanted phase of life. But Lauren had a plan to keep him moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him, giving him a task for every month in the year after her death. A plan that leads Joshua with a loving hand on a journey through grief, anger, and denial. It’s a journey that will take Joshua from his first outing as a widower to buy groceries…to an attempt at a dinner party where his lack of experience hosting creates a comic disaster…to finding a new best friend while weeping in the dressing room of a clothing store. As his grief makes room for new friendships and experiences, Joshua learns Lauren’s most valuable lesson: The path to happiness doesn’t follow a straight line. Funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always uplifting, this novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins illuminates how life’s greatest joys are often hiding in plain sight.
Download or read book There s So Much They Haven t Told You written by Michelle Ross and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Ross's debut short-story collection serves as an encyclopedia of modern relationships, taking special interest in those formed on unequal footing, pitting daughters against mothers, wives against husbands, friends against friends. Legacy looms large, as behaviors are passed from one generation to the next, and those entrusted with caring for the young or keeping others employed are found derelict in their duties. Weaknesses are exploited, ignorance is exposed, and bonds are occasionally dissolved. Regarding the human condition as it is portrayed throughout this collection, one character's words echo prophetically: "You're at the complete mercy of giants who don't understand you." In spite of all this, Ross's stories are ultimately tales of striving: to understand, to connect, to reclaim. Themes of discovery are woven tightly, as these individuals, rather than remain in the dark, are regularly drawn to the light that is missing from their lives. Optimism may not abound, but neither do these characters wallow. Time and time again, they evolve into agents of change within their own lives, even if they sometimes choose not to act. In the end, such thematic depth gives rise to an astoundingly diverse array of voices, styles, and structures. No two entries in Ross's collection are alike, and collectively they reveal the potential of the American short story, leaving little unsaid.
Download or read book The Best Peace Fiction written by Robert Olen Butler and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named Peacemaker of the Year in the 2022 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards In the first anthology of its kind, Robert Olen Butler and Phong Nguyen assemble an astounding collection of stories that cause readers to contemplate war, peace, and social justice in a new light. The fourteen stories featured in this volume explore the varied and often unexpected outcomes of violence. The authors explore the tragedies that occur closer to home--not on military battlefields but rather in places that are never meant to be battlefields, like schools and churches. The fiction reveals the violence that renders our most sacred and seemingly safest of places vulnerable. Not a utopian project, this book asks whether literature has a role in furthering the ongoing pursuit of peace and justice for all. While exploring tragedy, these stories also offer hope for healing, illuminating how people can move forward from the moments when their lives change and how they can regain and reshape safe spaces to find solace.
Download or read book Field Guide to the End of the World written by Jeannine Hall Gailey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivers a whimsical look at our culture's obsession with apocalypse as well as a thoughtful reflection on our resources in the face of disasters both large and small, personal and public. Pop-culture characters deliver humorous but insightful commentary on survival and resilience through poems that span imagined scenarios that are not entirely beyond the realm of possibility.
