Nominations Are Now Open for the 2022 Best of the Net Anthology

Nominations are now open for Best of the Net, 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.

In addition to poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we will also be accepting art nominations!

Nominations must have originally been published online between July 1st, 2021, and June 30th, 2022. See guidelines for more details on eligibility. Submissions must be received between July 1st and September 30th, 2022.

For submission guidelines, please visit: http://bestofthenetanthology.com/submissions/

To submit, please use the following form: tinyurl.com/bestofthenet2023

This year’s judges are Jane Wong (poetry), Shayla Lawz (fiction), Toni Jensen (nonfiction), and Rhonda Lott (art).

Jane Wong is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James Books (2021) and Overpour from Action Books (2016). Her debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, is forthcoming from Tin House in 2023. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a PhD in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. Her poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in places such as McSweeney’s, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home.

Shayla Lawz is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, NJ. She works at the intersection of text, sound, and performance and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Jack Jones Literary Arts, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, and The Digital Studies Center at Rutgers-Camden. She holds a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her writing/hybrid work appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Catapult, and The Poetry Project, among others. Her debut poetry collection speculation, n. was chosen by Ilya Kaminsky for the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize and is out now. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches in the department of Humanities and Media Studies at the Pratt Institute.

Toni Jensen is the author of Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize and a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book (Ballantine, 2020). An NEA Creative Writing Fellowship recipient in 2020, Jensen’s essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult, and Ecotone, among others. She is also the author of the story collection From the Hilltop. She teaches at the University of Arkansas and the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Rhonda Lott is an artist, code developer, and writer based in Knoxville, TN. As a lifelong lover of the arts and sciences, she holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Springfield and a doctorate in creative writing from Texas Tech University. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Humanities Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Whiskey Island Magazine, among others. She has contributed cover art to Best of the Net for twelve years.