With gratitude to the following fine writers for publishing with us, we are pleased to announce our nominations for the Best of the Net Anthology, 12th annual edition:

Poetry (and poetic hybrids):

• ⚡  Lightning Veins by Kika Dorsey
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• ⚡  Grief by Jeff Friedman
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• ⚡  Two Vows by Bob Lucky
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• ⚡  Wardrobe’s Advice to Norma Jean by Pamela Johnson Parker
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• ⚡  Stuffed by Leslie Powell
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• ⚡  Constable and Turner: Touching Fire by Charles D. Tarlton

Fiction:

• ⚡  Crazy White Dude by Roberta Beary
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• ⚡  Midnight Drift by Jim Gish

Nonfiction:

• ⚡  Inside or Outside Meat? by Terry Barr
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• ⚡  5 by (N°) 5 by Heidi Czerwiec

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

Sundress Publications will announce the winners and finalists during the winter of 2018 with the release of the 2017 Best of the Net Anthology. (For reference, the 2016 edition was released in February 2017, and the 2015 edition in March 2016.)

See also our nominations for previous editions:

2015 Best of the Net

2016 Best of the Net