Sundress Publications are pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Best of the Net Anthology! Judges for this year’s anthology were Kristen Arnett, C.T. Salazar, tijanna o. eaton, and Astri Snodgrass.
Sundress Publications and Best of the Net would like to thank those that made this issue possible, including our judges, readers, and those who submitted their work for consideration.
Read the winners and find the full list of finalists on our website at bestofthenetanthology.com.
2024 Best of The Net Winners
Fiction, Judged by Kristen Arnett
- Anney Bolgiano’s “Junior Steaks”
- Kelly X. Hui’s “Daughterhouse”
- Lara Longo’s “Motherland”
- Rosaleen Lynch’s “Skin Beetles”
- Eduardo Roldan’s “That You May Listen”
- Salonee Verma’s “Tropicana Women”
Nonfiction, Judged by Tijanna O. Eaton
- Camille U. Adams’s “Up Covigne Road”
- Lissa Batista’s “Dreaming in Brazil”
- Amelia K’s “without a listener: a comedy”
- Michele Lovell’s “What They Bring with Them”
- DW McKinney’s “In the Water’s Grip”
- Jamila Osman’s “Street View”
Poetry, Judged by C.T. Salazar
- Ruth Awad’s “How to Lucid Dream”
- Steven Espada Dawson’s “Search Party”
- Diamond Forde’s “Southern Fried Catfish”
- Nicole Homer’s “One of us is still alive and will prove it.”
- Tyler King’s “Greek Theater”
- Stefanie Kirby’s “Self-Erosion”
- Jennifer Martelli’s “American Dream”
- James McDermott’s “James”
- Sihle Ntuli’s “Blues for King Kong”
- Porsha Olayiwola’s “Rodney King Mistakes The Deep End Of His Swimming Pool For The Atlantic Or Police Brutality Is A Middle Passage, Is A Flood”
- Sodïq Oyèkànmí’s “self-portrait as a boy languaging through fragmental spaces”
- Vivian Faith Prescott’s “Seawall”
- Claire Rychlewski’s “Wifetime Visions”
- T.R. San’s “barber on [] island”
Art, Judged by Astri Snodgrass
- L.M. Cole’s “Comtesse la Crème”
- Arihant Jain’s “Melanin No. 6”
- Cris LaNiese’s “Glee (from Children of the Nile series)”
- Mario Loprete’s “Fuckovid”
- Larissa Monique’s “The Weary Moon”
- Meri Sawatzky’s “Fishbones”
- Carolyn Schlam’s “Little Sister”
- Patricia Tudosa’s “Remember Your Beginnings”
