COR'S best of the net 2026 nominees

The Best of the Net invites us to submit six poems and two stories for possible inclusion in its annual award anthology. This is no easy task! We know you know that. Please remember: we love all our authors' work. But you know that, too ;)

NOMINEES FOR 2026

(Poetry)

"Love Advice in the Fitting Room" by Veronica Bettencourt

"My Partner Bathes Me When I am a Body too Broken" by Sarah Fawn Montgomery

"My Unborn" by Kerry James Evans

"Plum Jam" by Mai-Linh K. Hong

"Rogue" by Stevie Edwards

"Windows" by Liona T. Burnham

(Prose)

"A Poet's Diary" by Sandra Simonds

"One Hundred and Twenty Years" by Michelle R. Brady