With boundless gratitude to these wonderful writers and artists for publishing with MacQ, founding editor Clare MacQueen is delighted to announce the nominations for the 19th-anniversary edition of Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net anthology. Results will be announced with the release of the anthology early in 2025. Best of luck to each of these nominees!

Nonfiction:

• ⚡  Where’s Jeffrey? [CNF] by Roseanne Freed
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• ⚡  Patience, and Other Virtues That I Lack [CNF] by
  Lorette C. Luzajic

Fiction:

• ⚡  Friends [flash] by Lynn Mundell
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• ⚡  Three Days [flash] by Linda Saldaña
  

Poetry:

• ⚡  Great Egret Caressing Air [the first of the vignettes] by
  Roy J. Beckemeyer, with photograph by Elaine Soulé
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• ⚡  Give Them All to Me by Steve Deutsch
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• ⚡  Sunyi [prose poem] by Kika Dorsey
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• ⚡  Watching Pins by Robbi Nester
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• ⚡  Astrolabe by Marianne Tefft
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• ⚡  Waiting for My Flight After Burying Our Mother by
  Robin Turner

Artworks:

• ⚡  Tsunami [photograph] by Pierre Cully
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• ⚡  Great Egret Departing [photograph] by Elaine Soulé
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• ⚡  Two Donkeys [graphite pencil drawing] by Patty Storms

 

Note: To qualify, poems, stories, and CNF must have been first published on the web between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. The works above were first published in MacQ online between 15 August 2023 and 28 April 2024 (across six issues of MacQ: 19-23, plus the special Thanksgiving issue, 20X).

Further details about participant qualifications are available at:
Best of the Net Submissions.

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Links to nominations for previous issues of MacQueen’s Quinterly:

2024 Best of the Net

2023 Best of the Net

2021-22 Best of the Net:

Publisher’s Note to Self (to avoid future confusion):

On 1 August 2021, Sundress Publications announced Nominations Are Now Open for 2021 Best of the Net Anthology. In addition to poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, they were also accepting art nominations for the first time. And all nominations “must have originally been published online between July 1st, 2020, and June 30th, 2021.”

But it looks as though Sundress Publications decided to skip the year 2021 and use the year of publication when naming the anthology they released in January: Sundress Publications Announces the Release of the 2022 Best of the Net Anthology in Sun Dress Blog (24 January 2022).

2020 Best of the Net:

One of our nominees, After Blossom by Robbi Nester, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.

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Links to nominations of works first published online in KYSO Flash:

2019 Best of the Net:

One of our nominees, Fresh Strawberries by Lorette C. Luzajic, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.

2018 Best of the Net

2017 Best of the Net

2016 Best of the Net

2015 Best of the Net:

One of our nominees, Tracers by Ruth Awad, was selected as a Poetry Finalist.