Flapper Press Nominations for 2025 Best of the Net!
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By Flapper Press:
Flapper Press is proud to announce our nominations for 2025 Best of the Net!
It's been another outstanding year and an honor to publish writers, poets, and artists from around the globe. We want to thank everyone for submitting their work for consideration for our site, and we encourage anyone interested in publication to send us their work!
A little about the Best of the Net Anthology:
A creation of Sundress Publications, The Best of the Net Anthology began in 2006 with the goal of honoring the world of digital publishing.
"We believe this effort is integral in decentering the literary canon as well as promoting and amplifying voices that are imperative to good literature, responsible culture, and the understanding of today’s social climate. We cherish these writers and publishers and hold digital publishing in high regards as a medium that creates access to a greater array of voices than the traditional publishing climate has allowed." — bestofthenetanthology.com
Please meet our nominees for 2025 Best of the Net!
Nominees for Best of the Net in Fiction:
Anna Banasiak
Anna Banasiak is a poet, writer, animator, and occupational therapist who loves helping people through art therapy. She is the winner of many poetry competitions in London, Berlin, Bratislava, and Kamena. She publishes books of poetry in India and Japan and belongs to the Japan Poets Association in Kyoto. Her poems have also been published in New York, London, Surrey, Australia, Canada, Africa, China, Cuba, and Israel.
To read more about Anna Banasiak and her work, visit our interview with her here at Flapper Press.
Justina Lim
Justina Lim is a Singaporean writer whose work explores the extremity of human nature: guilt, desperation, desolation. Her work has been included in anthologies by Asian and independent publishers. By day, she crafts words that sell in advertising and marketing; by night, she writes to understand the things that can't be sold. Justina is also a volunteer English tutor for lesser-privileged communities in Singapore.
Nominees for Best of the Net in Creative Nonfiction:
Dana Henry Martin
Dana Henry Martin’s work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Barrow Street, Chiron Review, Cider Press Review, FRiGG, Mad in America, Muzzle, New Letters, Rogue Agent, Stirring, Willow Springs, and other journals under the names Dana Henry Martin, Dana Guthrie Martin, and M Ross Henry. They are a poet, weaver, and musician who advocates for humane, holistic health- and mental-health care and LGBTQIA+ rights. They believe the arts and poetry in particular can heal trauma at the individual and collective levels. Their chapbooks include No Sea Here (Moon in the Rye Press, forthcoming), Toward What Is Awful (YesYes Books), In the Space Where I Was (Hyacinth Girl Press), and The Spare Room (Blood Pudding Press). Martin lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Toquerville, Utah.
Hilary Thomas
Hilary Thomas is the artistic directory of the Lineage Dance, a contemporary dance company dedicated to raising awareness for nonprofit organizations and to making the arts accessible to all. In 2010, the company opened the Lineage Performing Arts Center (LPAC) in Old Pasadena as a community hub designed to encourage community awareness through the arts. LPAC created the DANCE FOR JOY free classes for those affected by Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimers, Stroke Recovery, Cancer, and Autism. Hilary has also been on faculty at Flintridge Preparatory School, teaching science and dance since 2001.
Nominees for Best of the Net in Poetry:
Isaac Aju
Isaac Aju is a Nigerian writer of fiction and poetry whose works have appeared in Poetry X Hunger and The Writers' Journal in New York City. With a focus on African history, Isaac's poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous publications and online journals, including Synchronized Chaos, IkikeArts, and the Kalahari Review.
Shamik Banerjee
Shamik Banerjee is a poet who lives in Assam, India, with his parents. His house is located on a foothill, and when he isn't writing, he can be found strolling these alluring, hilly paths. He recently completed his higher studies in marketing, and although his dream is to relocate to some thinly populated, tranquil region and run a self-owned business, his current ambition is to work in the corporate sector. Some of his latest poems have been published by The Society of Classical Poets, Spelt, Pensive, San Antonio Review, Modern Reformation, Ekstasis, Ink Sweat and Tears, and Third Wednesday, among others. He recently secured second place in the 2024 Southern Shakespeare Company Sonnet Contest.
Angela Carole Brown
Angela Carole Brown has published several books of fiction, poetry, and memoir, including her North Street Book Prize–winning novel Trading Fours (2018). Shorter works appear in MacQueen’s Quinterly, Brilliant Corners, Flapper Press, Thorny Locust, and the poetry anthology In the Black/In the Red. Her illustrated film short, The Richest Girl in the World, won Best Multimedia Film at the 2021–22 Buddha International Film Festival and the Indo Global International Film Festival.
Ashely Mabbitt
Ashley Mabbitt is an American poet. Her work explores such topics as art, consciousness, family, silence, and the stillness of time. Her poems have appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Emerge, Plume, Ravensperch, South Florida Poetry Journal, and The Summerset Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she works for an academic publisher. Ashley's first full-length book is A Self, a Frame, a Look in Through (Kelsay Books). She is currently writing a new collection.
You can learn more about Ashley Mabbitt on her website and from her Instagram account: @ashley_mabbitt
Nicole Tallman
Nicole Tallman is the author of three collections: Something Kindred, Poems for the People, and FERSACE. She serves as the official Poetry Ambassador for Miami-Dade County (Florida), Poetry and Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review, and Editor of Redacted Books. She is also the creator and host of ELJ Editions/Redacted Books’ Be Well Reading Series and the Lunchtime Poetry & Jazz Series at Miami-Dade County’s Main Library. Her debut collaborative horror novel, Julie, or Sylvia, is forthcoming from Thirty West Publishing this summer. Find her on social media @natallman and at nicoleatallman.com.
Natalie Wolf
Natalie Wolf is a writer from the Kansas City area and currently pursuing an MFA in fiction writing at the University of Kansas. She is an editor for Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press and a former co-editor and co-founder of Spark to Flame Journal. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Popshot Quarterly, The Hooghly Review, I-70 Review, JAKE, and more. To find out more about Natalie Wolf, visit her website and follow her on Instagram.
Nominees for Best of the Net in Art:
Paul Mitchnick
Paul Mitchnick is a cinematographer living and working out of Toronto, Canada. He has spent time with many gifted filmmakers in his career—Sean Penn, Lawrence Kasdan, and John Woo as directors, as well as many Oscar-winning cinematographers. For the last decade, Paul has been Director of Photography on award-winning Canadian Independent Features and television Movies of the Week. He shot KEIF AL-HAL, the first feature film produced by a Saudi Arabian company. Whenever on assignment, Paul travels with his still camera and has taken photographs all over the globe. "I make my living looking at things, and when I have my still camera, opportunities kind of present themselves. Whether those things are looking for me or I am looking for them, I am not sure." paulmitchnickphotos.com, paulmitchnickdp.com, Instagram: @pmmitchnick
David Shannon
David Shannon grew up in Spokane, WA and graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a BFA in illustration in 1983. David began his career working as a free-lance editorial illustrator in New York City. His work has appeared in many publications including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, as well as on numerous book jackets and theater posters. David has also received international acclaim as the author and/or illustrator of over 40 books for children, including No, David! and A Bad Case of Stripes. For the past several years he’s been concentrating on abstract oil paintings which have been exhibited in a number of group shows including Art in the Time of Corona online at Dab Art and a solo show, Incognition, at the SPARC gallery in South Pasadena. See David Shannon exhibitions here.
Flapper Press is always looking for new submissions across all categories covered on our site. We also have numerous contests throughout the year, so please consider submitting your work via our Submission Guidelines, and keep an eye out for contest announcements. Not that we nominated for Best of the Net as well as the Pushcart Prize.
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