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
Submissions are now open for the 2024-2025 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award, honoring the life of Jeanne Leiby, Editor of The Florida Review from 2004 to 2007.
Congratulations to two 2024 Best of the Net Finalists: Andreas Trolf’s “75 Simple Steps to Positive, Growing Change” and Catherine-Esther Cowie’s “Heirloom.”
Congratulations to Matt Leibel for being a 2024 Best Small Fictions Selection. Leibel’s “The Wedding Photographer Photographer” will be part of the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology. Leibel’s story was originally published in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online. 
