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The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing. This space has been created to bring greater respect to the continually expanding world of exceptional digital publishing. 
Glassworks is proud to nominate fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction work originally published in flashglass for inclusion in the annual anthology.

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2025 Best of the Net Nominees

"Navy Blue Dickies" by Jennifer Anne Gordon | Fiction
"This is an Emergency Exit" by Nailah Jonquil | Fiction
"Bistik Ayam" by Andrea Lius | Nonfiction
"Impersonating Stillness" by Kathleen McGookey | Poetry
"The Things He Does That Have No Words" by Whitney Schmidt | Poetry

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2024 Best of the Net Nominees

"The Hoax" by Amy Devine | Poetry
"Run" by Crysta Garcia | Poetry
"Right Now" by Hibah Shabkhez | Poetry
"Fetal Pigs" by Danielle Shorr | Poetry

2023 Best of the Net Nominees

"When I hold a conch shell to my ear..." by Katee Fletcher | poetry
"Letter of Acceptance" by Zorina Exie Frey | Creative Nonfiction
"Small Words" by Kathleen McGookey | poetry
"The Principal and the Sea" by Kathryn Reese | fiction

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2022 Best of the Net Nominees

"Concerto #4 in Dm" by Robert Beveridge | Poetry
How to Live in This Body by Katrina Papouskaya | Poetry
Where the Sun Goes by Zain Syed | Fiction

2021 Best of the Net Nominees

"Entropy" by Andrea Rinard | Fiction
"They Weren't Kicked Out" by Claire Scott | Poetry
"So What Now With the House Gone?" by Jer Xiong | Creative Nonfiction

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