2025 Best of the Net Nominations
October 16, 2024
Hello friends. Despite being more than a few days late with this announcement, we are thrilled to reveal this year’s nominations for Best of the Net (which we managed to get submitted just before the clock struck midnight on September 30th).
For those who don’t know, Best of the Net is an annual contest operated by Sundress Publications that is designed to elevate and celebrate a growing collection of writers and publishers who are opening the door to transformation through art, online. More about the contest can be found here.
This year we were allowed to nominate two fiction stories, two creative nonfiction essays, six poems, and three pieces of art published between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. For us, this includes work appearing in issue #12, 13, 14, or 15. With that, we’re thrilled to announce the following nominations:
- Fiction
- Funny by L. L. Babb (Issue #15) ✅
- Rock, Shore, Thunder by Maria S. Picone (Issue #13) ✅
- Creative Nonfiction
- Selfishly, I Planted Flowers by Rachel Sussman (Issue #12) ✅
- Life Must Go On by Cynthia Landesberg (Issue #13) ✅
- Poetry
- Mosaic by Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí (Issue #13) ✅
- (Non)detrimental Reliance by Esther Ra (Issue #15) ✅
- Obit by Kait Quinn (Micro Monday) ✅
- Why We Cry by Matt Mason (Issue #12) ✅
- How to Hear God While Making Thanksgiving Dinner by Charlene Pierce (Micro Monday) ✅
- Those Who Can’t by Taylor Franson-Thiel (Micro Monday) ✅
- Artwork
- Earth Angel in Midtown by Sarah Louise Wilson (Issue #12) ✅
- “Focus” by K.A. Wesly (Cover issue #14) ✅
- “Symphonic Notes I and II” by Devdatta Padekar (Issue #15) ✅
Selecting the best pieces gets tougher each year. We’re grateful to all of our contributors and want to wish a hearty congratulations to these fine writers and artists for being the best of our best.
Good luck snagging that prize!
Cheers,
Shyla, Tacheny, & The Good Life Review Team
