Announcing Our 2025 Best of the Net Anthology Nominations

Aquifer: The Florida Review Online is excited to announce our nominations for the 2025 Best of the Net anthology. The Best of the Net anthology, created by Sundress Publications, accepts pieces first published online in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. To read more about the Best of the Net anthology, check out their webpage.

Congratulations and good luck to the nominees!

Art

Modern Ancestors by Anne McGrath

Graphic Narrative

Soft Eyes by Robert James Russell

Standard Pest Control by Jake Goldwasser

Fiction

The Star Buyer by Will Musgrove

When There’s No One Left to Point At by Eric Scot Tryon

Nonfiction

On Love and Duty by Joyce Dehli

My Mother’s Museum by Mark Brazaitis

Poetry

Missing the Farm by Travis Mossotti

Captive by Nicole Santalucia

A Moment of Tenderness by Vincent Antonio Rendoni

I Wanna Be Wrong by Michael Chang

I Woke Up Eating Donuts in the Rain by Jarrett Moseley

From the Jeopardy! category SPOILER ALERTS by Julie Marie Wade