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.

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.

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.

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).