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Michael Vadney is an American fantasy author and podcaster. Born in the Florida Keys and raised in the woods of Pennsylvania, Michael's love for storytelling began at an early age. His passion for fantasy literature was ignited by classics like The Hobbit and Redwall, inspiring him to create his own worlds filled with complex characters and fantastic magic.

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

Kate Canon is an Anglo-Irish writer and poet living in Scotland. She has a BA in French, German, and European Studies.

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.

" 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."

The following Editor's Note is taken from Harvest Moon Volume One, a MoonLit Getaway anthology of artwork, fiction, and poetry (available September 23, 2025).

"...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.

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

"Storytelling has stemmed into various aspects of my life, from dance to stage and even film. In the end, though, the written word forever has my heart and soul."

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.

A Lesser Light is a story about industry and calamity, science versus superstition, and inner desire countered with societal expectations.