We were stoked to have one of our nominated works, Viktoriia Grivina's What to Do with all the russian Books, included in the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology. And now, it's with great delight that we step up announce our nominations for the 2026 Best of the Net.
The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed by Sundress Publications to platform 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.
As required, the following nominations included works we published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025 across the categories of Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry.
CREATIVE NONFICTION:
- Loose Change and Tight Dreams || Edwin Mamman
- Ode to a Nation in Chaos || Shehrazade Zafar-Arif
FICTION:
- A Song of Protest || Amanda Nechesa
POETRY:
- A Canary for Palestine by Sani Kasim Ghabi
- Of a Poet & His Country's Dolour by Ridwan Fasasi
- Dance of the Ruptured Drum || Olumide Manuel
- Won't You Pick out Your Dress for Tomorrow || Sekinat Oladeji
- بعض أيام العسل، وبعض البصل أيام (some days honey, some days onions) by Rowan Tate
Congratulations and good luck to the nominees.
We appreciate your support, dear readers. We commit to publishing fresh, bold and exciting voices across the globe. And we will continue to nominate contributors for prizes and global anthologies available to us.
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Editors,
Fiery Scribe Review.
