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Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "ON DYS•COFFERING DYSLEXIA AT 44" by Gary Dop (North American Review), selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/on-dyscoffering-dyslexia-at-44/

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BEST OF THE NET 2025: POETRY SELECTION GARY DOP (NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW)
February 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Check out one of our 2025 Fiction Selections, "Orange" by Siamak Vossoughi (Pithead Chapel), selected by Ben Tanzer on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-fiction/orange/

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it was funny how we could build a little world in that farsi class, but all you’d have to do was step outside and see a little thing like how their dancing had touching and ours didn’t, and you’d remember how limited that little world was.” Siamak Vossoughi (pithead chapel) best of the net 2025: fiction selection
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Congrats to 2025 BOTN-selected writer Remi Recchia on his latest book, Addiction Apocalypse, releasing February 15th.

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pre-order now! “in remi recchia’s addiction apocalypse, “transformation” is the vital force underpinning the speaker’s core humanity: transformed bodies, transformed minds, transformed relationships, and transformed worlds characterize the lived experience and rich sociocultural landscapes that populate these poems.” -jacob griffin hall, author of burial machine new book from 2025 botn-selected poet remi recchia
January 30, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Nonfiction Selections, "Crosshairs" Abdaljawad Omar (Rusted Radishes), selected by Jen Soriano on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-nonfiction/crosshairs/

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Crosshairs “to live in the crosshairs is to occasionally yield to the dominance of the sniper’s lens. in this realm, two types of submission are recognizable. the first is to dodge, to acknowledge the sniper’s omnipotence, to shield oneself from death and to persist within the boundaries of the scope’s vision. the second is to stand defiantly, touched with a dash of madness, unconcerned with the meticulous contemplation of one’s past or future. it is to be utterly devoted to the present, a moment of absolute submission to the now.” Abdaljawad Omar (rusted radishes) best of the net 2025: nonfiction selection @bestofthenetanthology
January 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Loving After Loss"  @cassdonish.bsky.social (COMP: an interdisciplinary journal) selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/loving-after-loss/

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Loving After Loss “all night long, the curtain was pulled back and dawn drew me toward it, through the dark hours in which, missing you, and feeling the strangeness of missing you along with her, i swarmed above the pages of a book searching for a lost syntax that could lead me to this new form of desire, desire after obliteration, i shouldn’t overstate this, the death of myself when she died, i shouldn’t overstate it: obliteration” Cass Donish (comp: an interdisciplinary journal) best of the net 2025: poetry selection @bestofthenetanthology
January 26, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Fiction Selections, "Umeboshi" by Rebecca Nakaba (khōréō) selected by Ben Tanzer on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-fiction/umeboshi/

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Umeboshi “i am sick of asking questions that have no answer, sick of dissecting this into smaller and smaller pieces until it’s lost all semblance of itself. the whole severed half, re-severed, re-severed.” Rebecca Nakaba (Khōréō) best of the net 2025: fiction selection @bestofthenetanthology
January 21, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Art Selections, "El Ritual" by @ylasllaves.bsky.social (Blackbird), on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-art/el-ritual/

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El Ritual Cesar Piedra (blackbird) best of the net 2025: art selection @bestofthenetanthology
January 19, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Nonfiction Selections, "What to do with all the Russion Books" by @brams884.bsky.social (Fiery Scribe Review) selected by Jen Soriano on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-nonfiction/what-to-do-with-all-the-russian-books/

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what to do with all the russian books “silencing and physical destruction of one part of ukrainian literature, and denying us the right for the other part, has been the reason why i never read about donets during my summer holidays on its banks.” viktoriia grivina (fiery scribe review) best of the net 2025: nonfiction selection @bestofthenetanthology
January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Untitled 1975-86" jason b. crawford (West Trade Review) selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/untitled-1975-86/

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UNTITLED 1975–86 “I am not equipped for another apocalypse. Please tell me everything is still beautiful.” jason b. crawford (WEST TRADE REVIEW) BEST OF THE NET 2025: POETRY SELECTION
January 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Announcing our 2026 Poetry judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: Cyrus Cassells!

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Cyrus Cassells 2026 judges: poetry sundress publications & best of the net anthology
January 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Announcing our 2026 Creative Nonfiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: Lily Hoàng!

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Lily Hoàng 2026 judges: nonfiction sundress publications & best of the net anthology
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Announcing our 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: @andrewporter01.bsky.social

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Announcing our 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: Andrew Porter!
January 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Announcing our 2026 Art judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: Octavio Quintanilla!

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January 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Fiction Selections, "In the Waiting Room" by @jjlofflin.bsky.social (COMP: an interdisciplinary journal) selected by Ben Tanzer on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-fiction/in-the-waiting-room/

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IN THE WAITING ROOM “AND HE STARES OUT THE WAITING ROOM’S WINDOW INTO THE STEELY EVENING LIGHT, INTO THE FLAT FOLDS OF SKY, UNTIL HE FINALLY SEES THE BLACK SPECK HOVERING, TURNING. THE EYE OF GOD, HOW IT TURNS.” JOSHUA JONES LOFFLIN (COMP: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL) BEST OF THE NET 2025: FICTION SELECTION @BESTOFTHENETANTHOLOGY
December 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Art Selections, "Frank Along the Cumbres and Toltec" by Kathleen Frank (Gone Lawn), on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-art/frank-along-the-cumbres-and-toltec/

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FRANK ALONG THE CUMBRES AND TOLTEC Kathleen Frank (Gone Lawn) Best of the net 2025: Art Selection @bestofthenetanthology
December 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Nonfiction Selections, "I Had Better Tell You Where I am" by Danielle Batalion Ola (swamp pink) selected by Jen Soriano on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-nonfiction/i-had-better-tell-you-where-i-am/

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I HAD BETTER TELL YOU WHERE I AM “oo many tragedies have been manmade. In the islands, there is conspiracy and there is history and there is possibility, sprung forth from the cleft between the two.” Danielle Batalion Ola (swamp pink) Best of the net 2025: nonfiction selection Best of the net anthology
December 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Mercy" by @bcar.bsky.social (SWWIM Every Day), selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/mercy/

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mercy “let my spent shell sup like a suckerfish on this dumpster and clean its sullied floor. have mercy” brenda cárdenas (swwim every day) best of the net 2025: poetry selection @bestofthenetanthology
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Fiction Selections, "Too Good to be True" by @jekwriter.bsky.social (Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine) selected by Ben Tanzer on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...

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TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE “YOU REPRIMAND YOURSELF, YOU REALLY NEED TO BE MORE CAREFUL, BECAUSE LAST TIME IT TOOK YEARS TO GET YOUR HAPPINESS BACK, AND IT ONLY GETS HARDER WITH AGE,” JESSICA KLIMESH (GOOSEBERRY PIE LIT MAGAZINE) BEST OF THE NET 2025: FICTION SELECTION
December 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Art Cover Selections, "Sticks and Stones" by @ranarh.bsky.social (Peatsmoke Journal) on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-art/sticks-and-stones/

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Best of the best 2025 art cover selection Sticks and stones Jennifer s. Lange (peatsmoke journal)
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Nonfiction Selections, "My Time Machine" by Arthur Asseraf (Granta) selected by Jen Soriano on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-nonfiction/my-time-machine/

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MY TIME MACHINE “There is more than one way to enter the past from the present. You can open an old envelope and feel the words inside rush over; you can try to resurrect the exact recipe of your grandmother’s tagine to feel it in your mouth.” ARTHUR ASSERAF (GRANTA) BEST OF THE NET 2025: NONFICTION SELECTION Best of the best anthology
December 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Lunette 3" by Bruce Bond (Another Chicago Magazine) selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/lunette-3/

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Lunette 3 “When I see a half-fallen curtain, I see an eye on the verge of sleep. Or arrival. The lighting of the mind. Or the kiss that is a little of each.” Bruce bond (another Chicago magazine) Best of the net
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Check out one of our 2025 Fiction Selections, "Griefworms" by Meg Cass (Black Warrior Review) on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-fiction/griefworms/.

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Best of the best 2025: fiction selection Griefworms “Come winter, the city introduces the griefworms. They are designed to vermicompost our grief efficiently.” Meg Cass (black warrior review) @bestofthenetanthology
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM