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Marvit Ahanonu is a multidisciplinary artist and architectural designer whose work spans digital art, sculpture, painting, and immersive technology. With a background in art and architecture, she brings a unique nexus of art and science harmoniously. With a keen eye for detail and a deep commitment to storytelling through art on social issues challenging the society, Marvit has collaborated with a museum, research initiatives, and advocacy groups to create impactful visual na

Blackjack’s legs give out sometime around noon, when the sun is hot and high in the sky. His whole body dips when he hits the ground, graceful and bent-kneed, and the weight of him sends up a cloud of red dust that coats your throat, stings your eyes. You swing your leg over the saddle, land without making a sound. You assess the damage.

The excessively long title for this blog post says it all, but we'll say it again with a few more words. Writers and poets have voted MoonLit Getaway Literary Journal as a Hidden Gem among thousands of literary magazines with Chill Subs accounts! We are absolutely honored and immensely grateful for those who voted for us. We were listed with some exceptional journals, be sure to check them out as well.

Robin Duncan is an emerging, self-taught artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is passionate about creating hand-cut analog collages, watercolours, and other mixed media pieces. Her watercolour art was recently featured on merchandise for local indie and folk singer-songwriter Tina Hertz.

Congratulations to the Winner and Runners-Up of the 2025 MoonLit Getaway Short Fiction Contest.

Premee Mohamed does a rare thing with The Butcher of the Forest, she recounts a tale that harks to the roots of our fears and folklore: a lone walk into the deep, dark woods. And she does so with crystalline prose and eloquent simplicity. This story is tended to with such a microscopic perspective, that you feel the weight of the canopy, the scratch of the branches. 

Aida Gradina is a professional photographer whose journey began in 2009 when she attended the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. Now based on Pender Island, British Columbia, she was born and raised in Vukovar, Croatia, and moved to Canada at the age of nine. Her fine art photography has been exhibited in galleries throughout Canada and Europe, and her work has been featured in several international publications.

Sreelekha Chatterjee is an award-winning writer, poet, and editor. She has a postgraduate degree in science from Calcutta University and is also a trained singer with a degree in music (Geeta Bharati). Through her creative writing, she delves into the countless facets of human experience and aims to capture the ordinary, often overlooked aspects of daily existence, transforming them into subjects of reflection.

We are expanding our editorial team to include a Blog Editor, Social Media Editor, Art Editor, Newsletter Editor, and 2 Book Review Editors.

Submit before midnight on October 12, 2025 or spend the rest of your life wondering, "What if?"

" I came to poetry through songwriting. As a music-obsessed teenager, I stumbled across a battered copy of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience at a yard sale. I still have it. Inside the cover, scrawled in pencil, is “50¢.” Best investment I ever made. That little paperback has followed me everywhere since, and I return to it often. Blake taught me that language can be both music and meaning at once. I’ve been chasing that alchemy ever since."

"...look at your story as an opportunity. One of the novels I’m drafting came from a short story I entered in a contest just like this one. It didn’t win, but it did generate a wonderful idea that I’m gleefully pursuing." 

If you want a horror that’s interesting without keeping you up at night, enjoy queer characters, and you like it when sociopolitical dynamics are equalized by an outer force, try Titan of the Stars.

Matteo L. Cerilli (he/him) is a transmasc author and activist specializing in speculative fiction for all ages. His work features the YA horror novel LOCKJAW (Tundra, 2024); middle grade ghost story SOMETHING'S UP WITH ARLO (Harper Collins Canada, 2025); YA noir BAD IN THE BLOOD (Tundra, 2025); young YA gamer action FATHOM FALL (Bloomsbury, 2026); a featured short story in BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR (Ghoulish Books, 2024); and poetry in Augur magazine

Submissions Open: July 14, 2025 Submission Deadline: October 12, 2025 at 11:59 pm (GMT) Shortlist Announced: November 10, 2025 Winners...

John RC Potter is an international educator from Canada who lives in Istanbul. His poems, stories, essays, articles, and reviews have been published in various magazines and journals.

Karen Barrow is a Trinidad-born Canadian author. Her post-secondary studies brought her to Canada, where she eventually settled. Years later, Karen fulfilled a lifelong dream by combining a love of storytelling and her passion for travel to inspire her historical fiction novels. Palmyra, her debut novel, won the Whistler Independent Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Guernica Prize, the Page Turner Awards and the Eric Hoffer Award.

Harvest Moon is a collection of our favourite artwork, fiction, and poetry, handpicked from our online journal, and released each September. Pre-order Harvest Moon Volume One now and receive a 15% discount. The first 50 pre-orders of the print edition come with a MoonLit Getaway bookmark.

MoonLit Getaway is a realm of refuge, apart from the worries of everyday life. Our content aims to enrapture readers with excitement, wonder, and intrigue. We seek authentic art, fiction, and poetry and favour works that challenge our expectations. New, emerging, and established creators are encouraged to submit. We consider all genres and accept submissions from anywhere in the world.

Shantell Powell is a two-spirit swamp hag raised on the land and off the grid. She’s a graduate of the Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University and a Classics graduate from the University of New Brunswick.