We’re pleased to announce that the following pieces have been selected for the Editor’s Choice Award Longlist for the city | country issue. Read these pieces (and our other wonderful poems/essays/stories) here. Winner and finalists will be announced shortly.
Congratulations to these writers, whose work the editing team has selected to nominate for 2026 Best of the Net!
Poetry
Drift
A coastline thinks aloud in 2024
Anxiety Is a Bear
Muddy Lines
Ode to Compost
Prose
Fever Dream
Bailing Out My Sheetrock Man
Home Range
The Dabbawala
Artwork
Edmund R. Schubert
Issues:
S/S 2025: borders | boundaries | lines
F/W 2024: METAMORPHOSIS