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Your Impossible Voice 2025 Best of the Net Nominees

We are proud to nominate these extraordinary pieces from issues 29 and 30.

Fiction

Ellipse, D.C. by Denis Tricoche

Take Care by Laura Zapico

Nonfiction

Zeppole (aka Awama) by Khalil AbuSharekh

About the About by Mary Burger

Poetry

i really love the little things that go unnoticed by Philip Jason

The Desert Inn by Betsy Martin

I am writing the dream by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, translated by Domnica Radulescu

How to Lose Your Fear of Death by Rebecca Macijeski

A Flight by Adam Day

College by Jeffrey Kingman

Art

Deep Dive by Ayshia Müezzin

In the Heart of Love by Nicole F. Kimball

About Best of the Net

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.

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The AKO Caine Prize Award for African Writing Submissions Opening Announcement

The AKO Caine Prize Award for African Writing Nominations

We’re delighted to nominate “The Border” by Solomon Samson for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing!
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New from Carlo Matos: We Prefer the Damned

With his 11th book, We Prefer The Damned, Carlo Matos explores bisexual identity, relationships, erasure, and denial. Through this collection, Matos — a former MMA fighter — embraces past and present, old self and new self, while giving voice to the complexities of the bi+/pan/poly experience.

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