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Announcing Our 2025 Best of the Net Anthology Nominations

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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

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Introducing Creative Nonfiction Editor Brendan Stephens

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We are thrilled to introduce Brendan Stephens as our new online Creative Nonfiction editor for Aquifer!

Brendan Stephens is a writer and educator from Appalachia. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Pinch, Epoch, the Southeast Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. His awards include multiple Inprint Donald Barthelme awards, an Into the Void Fiction Prize, a Sequestrum Emerging Writer Award, and inclusion in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions. He earned his Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston and an MFA from the University of Central Florida. Currently, he is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and a submissions editor for SmokeLong Quarterly.

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Introducing Creative Nonfiction Editor Terry Ann Thaxton

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We’re making it official—meet Terry Ann Thaxton, a creative nonfiction editor with The Florida Review. Thaxton joined our team as an editor over the summer, but she’s no stranger to TFR.

Thaxton’s poetry and creative nonfiction–rooted in Florida landscape and history–explore the individual’s place in family and community, women’s issues, mental illness, and silenced voices of the past and present. Her books of poetry include Getaway Girl, The Terrible Wife, and Mud Song. She’s been awarded two Florida Book Awards, the Jeffrey E. smith Editors Prize at The Missouri Review for nonfiction, and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays have been published in Pithead Chapel, New Letters, Chattahoochee Review, Hayden’s Ferry, The Missouri Review, and other literary journals. She has an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. Thaxton is a professor at the University of Central Florida and directs the graduate programs in English.

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Announcing Our 2023 Nominations for the Best of the Net Anthology

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Aquifer: The Florida Review Online is thrilled to announce the nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology! The Best of the Net is an anthology created by Sundress Publications that 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.

Aquifer receives many wonderful pieces each year, and we are so excited to showcase our 2023 nominations. Best of luck to the nominees! 

Poetry Nominations:
“Nurture” by Jacques J. Rancourt
“Cool Side of the Pillow” by Cynthia Atkins
“Blues for King Kong” by Sihle Ntuli
“Content” by Allan Peterson
“Christmas Eve“ by Chelsea Dingman
“Witness Statement” by Kyle McCord

Fiction Nominations:
“Junior Steaks” by Anney Bolgiano
“75 Simple Steps to Positive, Growing Change” by Andreas Trolf
Nonfiction Nominations:
“Mythogenesis” by Suzanne Manizza Rosak
“What Comes in the Night” by Ariél Martinez
Visual Art Nominations:
“Heirloom” by Catherine-Esther Cowie
“The Queen of All the Dirt” by Catherine Esther-Cowie




 


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