Best of the Net Nominations 2025

A big congratulations to our ten nominees for Best of the Net!

Best of the Net is an annual anthology honouring small press literature first published online, through Sundress Publications. Online journals can nominate ten works each year.

Please join us in congratulating these writers for their amazing poems and stories.

The Ekphrastic Review

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We Are Seven, by Saskia Ashby

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-challenges/rene-magritte-ekphrastic-writing-responses

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An Item on My Old Bucket List, by Rose Mary Boehm

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-challenges/frederic-edwin-church-ekphrastic-writing-responses

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Vercingetorix, by Dave Day

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/archives/05-2024/2

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On Plato and Lamplight, by Kimberly Hall

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/on-plato-and-lamplight-by-kimberly-hall

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Zenia in February 1869, by Angela Kirby

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-challenges/ekphrastic-writing-responses-antonio-rafael-pinto-bandeira

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Sunday River by Laurie Newendorp

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-challenges/ekphrastic-writing-responses-antonio-rafael-pinto-bandeira

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Seeing The Sahara by Gustave Guillaumet, by Paul McDonald

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-challenges/gustave-guillaumet-ekphrastic-writing-responses

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On Seeing the Portrait of Juliette Gordon Low by Edward Hughes by Tamara Nicholl-Smith

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/on-seeing-the-portrait-of-juliette-gordon-low-by-edward-hughes-by-tamara-nicholl-smith

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Georgia O’Keeffe & the Opening, by Katy Scarlett

https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/georgia-okeeffe-the-opening-by-katy-scarlett

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Moth Orchid at the Botanical Gardens, by Kathryn Winograd
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https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/moth-orchid-at-the-botanical-gardens-by-kathryn-winograd