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| News: | 28 Sept. 2025 |
Nominations for Best of the Net 2026
With heartfelt appreciation to the following wonderful writers and artists for publishing with MacQ, founding editor Clare MacQueen is happy to announce the nominations for the 20th-anniversary edition of Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net anthology. Results will be announced with the release of the anthology early in 2026. Best of luck to each of these nominees!
Creative Nonfiction:
- ⚡ Perhapsing [micro] by Roberta Beary
- ⚡ Killer Art [micro] by Bill Ratner
Fiction:
- ⚡ The Slap [flash] by Sayantani Roy
- ⚡ Saturday Night in Nirvana, Texas [micro] by Christopher Woods
Poetry:
- ⚡ Afterglow by Nadia Arioli
- ⚡ The Color We Come From [haibun] by Cherie Hunter Day
- ⚡ Murmuration by Gary Grossman
- ⚡ Just as They Were About to Bloom [prose poem] by
Nancy Byrne Iannucci - ⚡ Some Cats by Kurt Luchs
- ⚡ Bridal Salon [ekphrastic] by Robbi Nester
Visual Art:
- ⚡ Meditation Sculpture by Hans Schuler [photograph] by
Gerrie Paino - ⚡ 2Kool 2B Forgotten [painting, mixed media] by Lorette C. Luzajic
- ⚡ Untitled (“Mars”) [collaborative shahai, aka photo-poem] by
Richard Doyle and Michael Pfundner
Note: To qualify, pieces must have been first published on the internet between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025. The works above were first published in MacQueen’s Quinterly online between 30 August 2024 and 21 April 2025 (inclusive), across five issues (24 through 28).
Further details about participant qualifications are available at:
Best of the Net Submissions.
Links to nominations for previous issues of MacQueen’s Quinterly:
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).
One of our nominees, After Blossom by Robbi Nester, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.
Links to nominations of works first published online in KYSO Flash:
One of our nominees, Fresh Strawberries by Lorette C. Luzajic, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.
One of our nominees, Tracers by Ruth Awad, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.
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