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2018 Best of the Net Nominations

Monday, September 24th, 2018

We’re glad to nominate the following pieces for the 2018 Best of the Net anthology:

Poems
Al Maginnes – “One Trouble With Stories” (May/June 2018)
Amber McBride – “Black Witch Moth (Ascalapha odorata)” (March/April 2018)
Bridget O’Bernstein – “I Think I Hit My Orthodontist Twice” (March/April 2018)
Demi Richardson – “California Burn Ban” (May/June 2018)
Marvin Shackelford – “Gorgon” (January/February 2018)
Robert Wrigley – “Morphine” (March/April 2018)

Stories
Yasmina Din Madden – “A Gook, Not a Chink” (March/April 2018)
Don Malkemes – “Walgreens at Armitage & Albany” (November/December 2017)

Thanks for (re)reading. May they fare well.

2017 Best of the Net Nominations

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

We’re pleased to nominate the following work for the 2017 Best of the Net awards:

Poems
Amy Strauss Friedman – “Autopsy” – Sep. ’16
Adam Edelman – “What I Learned from Dracula” – Dec. ’16
John Gallaher – “Poem for Your Birthday if This Is Your Birthday” – Feb. ’17
Sarah Viren – “Falling” – Apr. ’17
Chrys Tobey – “Letter to My Ancestor” – May/Jun. ’17
Joshua Johnston – “City Hall” – May/Jun. ’17

Stories
William Squirrell – “Z Rats!” – Jan. ’17
Ron Riekki – “America” – Apr. ’17

We hope you’ll revisit these poems and stories. And, as always, we wish the authors luck in the selection process.

2016 Best of the Net Nominations

Saturday, September 10th, 2016

We’re glad to nominate the following pieces for the 2016 Best of the Net awards:

Poems
John Paul Davis – “Passwords” –  Aug. ’15
Hannah Lee Jones – “Erlkönig at Burley’s Field” – Jun. ’16
Robert Lunday – “Generations” – Apr. ’16
Meghann Plunkett – “In Response To A Comment On My Outspoken Nature, That I Have No Manners” – Apr. ’16
Claire Scott – “O.R.” – Feb. ’16
Amanda Silberling – “Afterglow” –  Oct. ’15

Stories
Robert M. Detman – “Building the Perfect Wings” – Feb. ’16
Chad Frame – “Bat Boy and Sean Penn Meet El Chapo in Secret Jungle Fort Hideout, No Girls Allowed” – Mar. ’16

May they fare well.

2015 Best of the Net Nominations

Tuesday, September 15th, 2015

Into the 2015 Best of the Net battle, decomP sends the following warriors:

Poems
Diya Chaudhuri – “Abstract of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Fine Arts” – Feb. ’15
Ori Fienberg – “Silent Catalog” – Dec. ’14
Sophia Holtz – “Apocalypse Party” – Oct. ’14
Les Kay – “The Stranger” – Apr. ’15
Michelle Menting – “Objects Used to Prop Open a Window” – Feb. ’15
Andrew Payton – “Strandings” – Apr. ’15

Stories
Jackson Culpepper – “The Birth and Immolation of a Southern God at the Hands of All” – Dec. ’14
Kelly Kiehl – “The Forgottonists, or, Whatever, Some Parts Were Fun” – Jan. ’15

Check ’em out (again).

2014 Best of the Net Nominations

Saturday, September 27th, 2014

Congrats to our 2014 Best of the Net nominees! We hope their work is selected but, as they say, it’s an honor just to be nominated…unless you happen to be Leonardo DiCaprio.

Poems
Will Arbery – “Write a Historical Poem” – Nov. ’13
Lisa J. Cihlar – “Apiary” – Oct. ’13
Krystin Gollihue – “The Spine” – Sept. ’13
Claire Kelly – “Nests” – Sept. ’13
Laurie Patton – “Floor” – Nov. ’13
Ali Shapiro – “Leave Me Alone But Take Me With You” – Sept. ’13

Stories
Raul Palma – “A Captain’s Retirement” – Mar. ’14
Caleb Tankersley – “The Oak Tree” – May ’14

We hope you reread these poems and stories. See you soon for our annual Pushcart nominations.