2026 Nominations for Best of the Net

POETRY

• If we had to rewrite the story, then let’s start from collapse. Either we breach our bedrock, or dissolve the household by Jonathan Bessette

• All Our Quiet Prayers by Kimberly Hall

• Just Between Wives by Hallie Havican

• Sunday Afternoon (After C.D. Wright) by Grace Patt Biddle

• cerberus by Ariel Wu

• fallen by Savannah S. Miller

FICTION

• Hoodie Strings by Sean MacPhee

• Roses or Herpes by Danila Botha