As Roxane Gay noted over at the PANK Magazine blog the other day, it’s tough to look back at a year’s worth of pieces and select just a few to nominate. Over the last several days, I’ve read and re-read our fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh issues, and I have to say that it’s been difficult to decide which pieces to nominate–after all, we publish only writing that moves us; we publish only writing that we think is wonderful. As Roxane said, “We fall in love with everything we publish.” Or maybe I’ll say, “We publish everything we fall in love with.”

But choose we must, and with that said, I’m very pleased to announce our nominations for this year’s Best of the Net Anthology from Sundress Publications.

Poetry

• Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis for “Mayday”
• Maggie Evans for “I Would I Were So Many Crows”
• Kathleen Kraft for “Flying After Your Death”
• Howie Good for “The O in Ohio”
• Tarn W.P. MacArthur for “To the Winter Woods”
• Karla Linn Merrifield for “Six Questions Now Answered”

Fiction

• Eric Beeny for “Snowing Fireflies”
• J. A. Tyler for (i), an excerpt from In Love with a Ghost

Nonfiction

• Vivian Wagner for “Bright”