2026 Best of the Net Nominees

January House Literary Journal is excited to announce our nominations for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology.

The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing.

Congratulations and good luck to our nominees!

Poetry

Bindweed by M F Drummy

City Specters by Lisa Delan

Climate Change by Nancy Cherry

Crash-Testimony by Daniel Romo

Moment in American Nectarine by Michael Dwayne Smith

This is Where We Split by Stacey Lounsberry

Fiction

Firing Sonny Lane by Mark Connelly

Sundowning by Nathaniel Krenkel

Non-Fiction

Getting By by Daniel Acosta

It Will Be Like This Forever: Grief’s Snow Days and the Power of Art by Maggie Russell

Art

fido by John Sklba

Gertrude Stein’s Rose by Janina Aza Karpinska

The Execution of Holofernes by Sean Bw Parker



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