With gratitude to these fine writers and artists for publishing with MacQ, we’re so pleased to announce our nominations for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net anthology:

Poetry:

• ⚡  The Phone Call by David Appelbaum
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• ⚡ Conquistadores [prose poem] by Laine Cunningham
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• ⚡  Bolsa Chica Gun Club by Scott Ferry
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• ⚡  Ripening [cadralor] by Lori Howe
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• ⚡  The Day I Don’t Tell My Children About the Capitol Attack by Julie Weiss
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• ⚡  Crane by Ann Knickerbocker [tanka prose, ekphrastic] by Charles D. Tarlton

Stories:

• ⚡  A Friend From School [flash fiction] by Garret Stack
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• ⚡  Evening in the Diner [flash fiction] by Lynn Pattison

Nonfiction:

• ⚡  Naming the Phenomenon by Jack Cooper
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• ⚡  Impression [CNF, ekphrastic] by Robert L. Dean, Jr.

Artworks:

• ⚡  Crane [mixed-media painting] by Ann Knickerbocker
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• ⚡  Untitled Photograph of Geothermal Feature by Cindy L. Sheppard
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• ⚡  Low Country Christmas [photograph] by Cindy L. Sheppard

Best-of-luck wishes to each of these nominees!

Sundress Publications will announce the winners and finalists with the release of the Best of the Net 2022 anthology early next year.

[Update: See Sundress Publications Announces the Release of the 2022 Best of the Net Anthology in Sun Dress Blog (24 January 2022).]

Information is available about participant qualifications at:
Submission Guidelines.

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Publisher’s Note to Self (to avoid future confusion):

On 1 August 2021, Sundress Publications announced Nominations Are Now Open for 2021 Best of the Net Anthology. In addition to poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, they were also accepting art nominations for the first time. And all nominations “must have originally been published online between July 1st, 2020, and June 30th, 2021.”

But it looks as though Sundress Publications decided to skip the year 2021 and use the year of publication when naming the anthology they released in January: Sundress Publications Announces the Release of the 2022 Best of the Net Anthology in Sun Dress Blog (24 January 2022).

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Links to our nominations for previous issues of MacQ:

2020 Best of the Net:

One of our nominees, After Blossom by Robbi Nester, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.

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Follow these links to see our nominations for previous editions (for works first published online in KYSO Flash):

2019 Best of the Net:

One of our nominees, Fresh Strawberries by Lorette C. Luzajic, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.

2018 Best of the Net

2017 Best of the Net

2016 Best of the Net

2015 Best of the Net:

One of our nominees, Tracers by Ruth Awad, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.