Dear Readers,

We are pleased to announce our 2025 Best of the Net nominees! Congratulations to all our nominees whose work appeared between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. In case you missed their pieces, please click the links below. Here is the list of the nominees:

Fiction 

Pinch Hitter by Michelle Ross

Listen: A Better Life is Coming by Mitchell Waldman

Nonfiction

Winter Greens by Emily Brisse

Poetry

Parhelion by Mikki Aronoff

The Other Shoe by Jeff Burt

Tenderness by Jennifer Dumbelton

The Reconciliation of Butterflies by Danielle Lemay

Dragon Tree by Richard Schiffman

A Body as an Algebraic Expression by Ajani Samuel Victor

Art 

In the Forest by Lia Mageira

Siam Splash by Jim Ross

Nebula Canopy by Priyanka Sacheti

In other news, please note that we are currently closed to fiction and poetry submissions. Stay tuned to our Submit page for reopening dates. Also, thank you for continuing to support us with your readership and donations. We couldn’t do it without you!

Warmly,
Rudri & Beth
Founders and Editors