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South 85 Journal is pleased to announce the nomination for the following works, which appear in the Summer 2022 issue, for this year’s Best of the Net Anthology.

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. 

Poetry:

Imagine a Raw Egg  by Katerina Stoykova

Junk Trees  by Kristen Rembold

Voracious and Vegetarian  by Ivy Raff

A Faint Ticking  by Roger Pfingston

Prolapse: Etymology  by Lisa Allen

Open/Close/Open by Marjorie Maddox

Fiction:

Drenched  by Emily Fontenot

Girls Night  by Anthony D’Aries

Nonfiction:

Otherwise  by Michael Levan

10 Ways to Mother  by Madelaine Gnewski