ANMLY is over the moon that Elijah Sparkman’s short story, “No Dinosaur” is a finalist for this year's Best of the Net! #BotN

Read it here: anmly.org/ap39/elijah-...

LA PERFECTION NORVÉGIENNE ! 🇳🇴

Johan-Olav Botn sacré champion olympique ! 🥇 Auteur d'un fantastique 20/20 au tir, il survole l'Individuel 20km pour s'offrir le titre suprême. Une démonstration de calme et de puissance ! 🎯🔥

🥇🇳🇴👏❤️🤍💙

#MilanoCortina2026 #Biathlon #Botn #JeuxOlympiques

🇳🇴 #Botn

Olympia Wett-Tipp 10.02.: Biathlon Männer 20 km Einzel | Sportwetten24.com Es ist die Königsdisziplin beim Biathlon der Männer, der Einzelwettbewerb über 20 km. Die olympische Entscheidung in Antholz steht an. Wir blicken auf das Rennen, haben die Favoriten und Wettquoten fü...

Unser Geheimtipp für die heutige Entscheidung im #Biathlon der Herren im Einzel über 20km:

www.sportwetten24.com/magazin/olym...

#Olympia #OlympischeSpiele #Perrot #Botn #Giacomel

Seriously??

Boy leapt 3' in the air

Fuck off, Hill is allowed to stand his ground

#afcb #utciad #botn #boutot

I don't think I've seen a forward line fall over as much as this ever

And keep appealing to the ref, and the home fans falling for it and claiming the same

Don't blame the ref, blame the hitman, put some longer studs in

Diving twats

#afcb #utciad #botn #sunbou

Screenshot of the fastest fiction publisher response times on Duotrope, showing Doric Literary at #4 with an average response time of 1.3 days.

#4!

My little baby continues climbing the charts!
@doricliterary.bsky.social has the 4th fastest response time on @duotrope.com 👀

No submission fee. $10 honorarium.
We nominate for @pushcartprize.bsky.social #BOTN & more!
Fiction 1000-8000 words.

doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

This means you'll likely never get to find out just how good @afcbpodcast.com is, that's a shame ;)

#afcb #utciad #botn

Martin Kennedy Yates: Alliterative Poet Martin Kennedy Yates is an emerging poet who has had work in recent editions of The Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Butcher’s Dog, Anthropocene, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Storms, and Finished Creatures.

How exciting to get a #BestOfTheNet nomination for my essay exploring the creation of my 'Scousenlish' poems & their relationship to the alliterative form of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - follow link...
alliteration.net/poets/martin...
Thank you @rhunedhel.bsky.social for the love 🥰
#BOTN

Night Mid Night by John Simmons   I woke in the dead of night, as often I do, lying there in the deep duvet darkness, listening, listening to shells telling the most dreadful stories from far away, oceans away, born...

John Simmons - "Night Mid Night"
stonecirclereview.com/night-mid-ni...
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

Gaudy Night by Catherine Rockwood   It was a time of disasters but very small ones. Friday, and a party on elsewhere. A bus for revelers arrived at New Hall. I saw it from the field outside on my way to a frie...

Catherine Rockwood (@martin65.bsky.social) - "Gaudy Night"
stonecirclereview.com/gaudy-night/
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

in my dreams i saved us by Joel LeBlanc   A voice sings a lullaby: “The animals went in two by two, Hurrah! Hurrah!” Noah is drunk in the corner, grieving the past, he thought the ark would make him happy. Naamah is wash...

Joel LeBlanc (@cottageinwood.bsky.social) - "in my dreams i saved us"
stonecirclereview.com/in-my-dreams/
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

second skin by Leander He   august closes like a wound. it’s tradition now: makemy parents cry every summer by injecting something new,cover myself with body hair and tattoos so that someoneelse will love me. th...

Leander He - "second skin"
stonecirclereview.com/second-skin/
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

Girl à feuilles caduques by Carrie Chappell   I know a bed can hold more than a sleeping body. I know a body can hold more than a sleeping girl. Parts of me, like branches, have always been erect, Have never slumbered. Under...

Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) - "Girl à feuilles caduques"
stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil...
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

Bertha by Sophia Carroll   I take it in turns, governess & ungovernable. Woman who fears knife-shine laughter, & witch who descends from the attic. Voice calling over the moors & the one who answers it. ...

Sophia Carroll (@torpor-chamber.bsky.social) - "Bertha"
stonecirclereview.com/bertha/
#BotN #BestOfTheNet

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

#BotN #BestOfTheNet

Sure wish I could tell my uncle about this one.

Thank you, Orange Blossom Review, for including my CNF essay "Rubber Bands" on your 2025 #BOTN list.

orangeblossomreview.org/botn-pushcart/

And the Best of the Net Nominees are... | New Flash Fiction Review Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

Delighted to announce our nominations for Best of the Net - @jackmmorris.bsky.social for "Ernst is coming home" and @kateaxeford.bsky.social for "The truths behind a pumpkin dare, Northern Alberta, 3rd July, 1991"

Best of the Net 2025 #BOTN #flashfiction
newflashfiction.com/and-the-best...

Here's my recording of my poem Prefab, nominated for Best of the Net & published by @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social's @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social
#poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #BOTN

Five Poems by Paul Connolly Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp

I'm delighted to announce that
my poem Prefab (which can be found in the link below)
has been nominated for BEST OF THE NET
My boundless gratitude goes to @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social & @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social for nominating me 🙏

#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #BOTN

Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for nominating 'Philosophy Fragment' for Best of the Net. Such great company too. Congratulations to all the nominees! ❤️

#poetrycommunity #BOTN

I was delighted to find that I've been nominated in the #BOTN awards 2026 by @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for the poem Polyrhythmic Cake Mix.

Thanks so much to Editor Leia for the belief in my work.

Couldn't be happier.

Best Of The Net 2026 Nominations Announcing our selections

We are delighted to announce the @frazzledlit.bsky.social nominations for #BOTN 2026! It's a real honour to get to choose these pieces, so a big THANK YOU to all of our contributors!

www.frazzledlit.com/p/best-of-th...

Best Of The Net 2026 Nominations Announcing our selections

We are delighted to announce the @frazzledlit.bsky.social nominations for #BOTN 2026! It's a real honour to get to choose these pieces, so a big THANK YOU to all of our contributors!

www.frazzledlit.com/p/best-of-th...

What Causes Sir Gawain to Go at a Gallup Alliteration works constantly within the line, dynamic and integral, running through the poem manipulating its movement.

2nd creative nonfiction piece Forgotten Ground Regained is nominating to #BestOfTheNet:

@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social's "What Causes Sir Gawain to Go at a Gallop"

alliteration.net/info/what-causes-sir-gawain-to-go-at-a-gallup/ #BOTN #SirGawain #GreenKnight #poetrycommunity #alliterative #poetry

The Landscape of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight A tour through the Englisha and Welsh countryside that forms the backdrop to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Editors can submit 2 pieces of "creative nonfiction" to #BestOfTheNet.

Forgotten Ground Regained's 1st nomination in the category:
@mythicalbritain.bsky.social's "The Modern Landscape of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".

alliteration.net/info/the-landscape-of-sggk/ #BOTN #Gawain #GreenKnight

Really thrilled to get a Best of the Net Nomination for this piece about my ass published in Ran Off with the Star Bassoon. Thank you Rogan and staff, and congrats and good luck everyone! Read it here: ranoffwiththestarbassoon.com/koss/
#botn, #nomination, #fiction, #microfiction, #flash

In the Beginning, an alliterative poem by John C. Mannone And out of heaven hovered a holy wind / over the face of the formless void / and from it came such grace ...

The 6th poem Forgotten Ground Regained is nominating for #BestOfTheNet is John C. Mannone's "In the Beginning"

But of the beasts, best born was man / who has the power, who has the might / to honor or destroy everything in sight

alliteration.net/poetry/in-the-beginning/ #BOTN #alliterative #poetry

Grace, a poem in alliterative verse by Sarah Monnier The fighting flights above · and flyting in the streets / that meet and mesh, a maneuver both of minds / and of strength that staggers · between stone and rock ...

A fifth poem that Forgotten Ground Regained is nominating for #BestOfTheNet is @lore.house's "Grace".

Living through an epic in real time ...

alliteration.net/poetry/grace/ #BOTN #alliterative #poetry #poetrycommunity #protest #nokings #alliterativeverse

Best Of The Net 2026 Nominations Announcing our selections

I'm delighted to announce the @frazzledlit.bsky.social nominations for #BOTN 2026! It's a real honour to get to choose these pieces, so a big THANK YOU to all of our contributors!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/best-of-th...