2020 Best of the Net Nominees

Please help us congratulate our 2020 Best of the Net nominees in fiction, nonfiction and poetry categories.

Fiction:

“First I Took the Lobster’s Heart” by Isabelle Correa

“praise, pt. ii” by Ashley Ward

Nonfiction:

“Ode to Normality, But Not As They Mean It” by Mileva Anastasiadou

“Wish You Were Here” by Katherine Morgan

Poetry:

“Good Daughters” by Lituo Huang

“When in the Wendy’s Drive-Thru, They Ask Me What Sauce and I Say” by Taylor Byas

“2015 Paris Agreement” by Ojo Taiye

“John Wick and Baba Yaga Walk into a Bar” by Chloe N. Clark

“This Is Here Now, Building” by Terese Mason Pierre

“Coming Home During an Indian Summer” by Samuel J. Fox

Honorable Mentions:

Fiction:

“She Doesn’t Anymore” by Cathy Ulrich, “8 People Having the Same Realization” by Tyler Dempsey, “It Turns Out Books DO Burn at 451 Degrees” by Shannon Frost Greenstein, and “A Gay Bar Disappears in the Rain” by Justin Karcher

Nonfiction:

“Damaged Goods” by Rebecca Portela and “What’s Wrong” by Alex Simms

Poetry:

“Memory: Touch” by Jack Bedell, “On Going to the Hong Kong Women’s Clinic for an STD test after you’ve found out your husband has been fucking prostitutes” by Christine Taylor, “Gingerbread Woman” by Elsa Valmidiano, “Something Malnourished in Our Hands” by Alina Stefanescu, “Ambitions of Love” by SK Grout, “Plum” by Tariq al Haydar, “Mermaid” by Nkateko Masinga, “The Water I Come From” by Quintin Collins and “Left Behind” by Julie Weiss