Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Hablando de Vallejo y Darwish" by Fady Joudah (The Rumpus) selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/hablando-de-vallejo-y-darwish/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Prayer to the Antibiotic" by Kai Ihns (Annulet) selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/prayer-to-the-antibiotic/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Pembroke Township, Illinois, Spring 2022" by Janice N. Harrington (swamp pink) selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/pembroke-township-illinois-spring-2022/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Inheritance at Corresponding Periods of Life, at Corresponding Seasons of the Year, as Limited by Sex" by @jamesallenhall.bsky.social (The Adroit Journal) selected by Ruben Quesada #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

Check out one of our 2025 Nonfiction Selections, "The Impressionists" by Carly Stone (American Literary Review) selected by Jen Soriano on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-nonfiction/the-impressionists/ #bestofthenetanthology #nonfictionwriting #finalist

Please join us in welcoming our new team members: Ariadne Alexis Macquarie (Assistant Editor), Chekwube Ozieh (Assistant Editor), Mohammed U. Yusuf (Assistant Editor), and Caroline Majewski (Social Media Manager). We’re thrilled to have them on our team.

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #fictionwriting #finalist

Congrats to 2025 BOTN-selected writer Remi Recchia on his latest book, Addiction Apocalypse, releasing February 15th. #newrelease #poetry #preorder

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #nonfictionwriting #finalist

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #fictionwriting #writing

Check out one of our 2025 Art Selections, "El Ritual" by @ylasllaves.bsky.social (Blackbird), on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-art/el-ritual/ #bestofthenetanthology #art #finalist

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #nonfictionwriting

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

Announcing our 2026 Poetry judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: Cyrus Cassells! Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-judges/

Announcing our 2026 Creative Nonfiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: Lily Hoàng! Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-judges/

Announcing our 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: @andrewporter01.bsky.social Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-judges/

Announcing our 2026 Art judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: Octavio Quintanilla! Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-judges/

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #fictionwriting #finalist

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #art #finalist

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #nonfictionwriting #finalist #nonfiction

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist #poetry

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-... #bestofthenetanthology #fictionwriting #finalist

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #art #finalist

The Best of the Net is now officially on BlueSky! Follow them at @bestofthenet.bsky.social!

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #nonfictionwriting #finalist #writingcommunity

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/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

Check out one of our 2025 Fiction Selections, "Griefworms" by Meg Cass (Black Warrior Review) on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-fiction/griefworms/. #bestofthenetanthology #fictionwriting #writing