By The Seventh Wave
These writers and poets are ones to watch.
We are so thrilled to share our nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. Every year, we work closely with anywhere between 32 to 62 new voices, and so it is incredibly difficult to narrow our pool of nominees down to just a handful. In our minds, everyone we publish deserves all the flowers for their willingness to share their poetry, their story, and their art with us and the world.Each of our nominations are exceptional works of art that expanded our ways of viewing genre, pushed us to think more deeply about the possibilities of craft and form, and most importantly, challenged us to ask more questions and be more awake to the ways that art can move us. Congratulations to all the nominees!
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Best of the Net nominees
Poetry- “The Countries of Sleep” by Indu Parvathi
- “Reading in Carceral Tense” by Paul S. Ukrainets
- “The Jungle Book: Epilogue” by Farah Ghafoor
- “Body Party City” by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal
- “Bloodlines” by Sarah Kaplan Gould
- “Potpourri” by Alexander Duringer
- “Moses’s Ear” by Shelby Handler
- “like [my] mother, like me” by Katie Lee Ellison
- “Old Friends Let Things Go” by Jules Chung
- “Tomorrow Will Be Even Brighter” by Daniel Tam-Claiborne
Pushcart Prize nominees
Poetry- “Bloodlines” by Sarah Kaplan Gould
- “I ORDER A NEW MOTHER IN THE MAIL” by emet ezell
- “Inventory” by Sarah Matsui
- “The Granary” by Renée Rhodes (nonfiction)
- “Emma” by Veronica Wasson
- “I Was a Child Disappearing Into Whatever I Touched” by Cypress Manning