BluePrintReview nominations: Best of Net

It's the season of nominations!
Always a difficult task, but also a joy to revisit the previous issues, and be able to contribute to projects like the Sundress Best of Net Anthology , the Million Writers Award or to Dzanc Best of Web, projects with the mission "to promote and expand the reach and prestige of online literature by offering this annual glimpse into the best writing the internet has to offer."

Going through the pages, the thought occured that it would be good if there also was a best of web for photos and artwork. Not that this would make the task easier.  So here, the first round of nominations:

Best of Net / Sundress - Nominations 2011

Short Stories 

• My Mother, Marylin Monroe- Len Kuntz


• Love and War - Jónas Knútsson

Poetry

• memory revises us – Arlene Ang & Daniela Elza


• A Fragment, with Mask and Horn – Sam Rasnake


• h/eartland - Lynne Shapiro


• Make-Believe – Al Rempel


• Temenos –Daniela Elza & Robin Susanto


• Anchor Baby – Harold Terezón (USA), Clint Cambell (USA), Carleen Tibbetts (USA), Kaira Jordan Ki (USA), Anne Yale (USA), and Omer Zalmanowitz (Israel) - a collaborate poem

Congratulations to all, and best of luck for the anthology selection!

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Collage images: "mm" by Jeff Crouch; "into the ear" by Robin Susanto; "Astral Land" by Cliff Tisdell; "Dark Nebula" by Terrin Stam Munawet

storySouth Million Writers Award: link + nominations

the storySouth Million Writers Award is still open for nominations. nominations can be made by readers + writers (1 story). editors can directly nominate 3 stories. deadline for nominations: 15.3.

eligible for the award are stories that have been first published in an edited online literary journal in 2010, with a length of at least 1,000 words.

details and guidelines: The storySouth Million Writers Award

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BluePrintReview nominations 2011
it's a special joy to send nominations to storySouth after one of the BluePrintReview stories made it into the 2010 top ten list: “The Library” by Jolie Braun

the BluePrintReview nominations for the storySouth Award 2011 are:

Story 1: “Dream Girl” by Z.Z. Boone

Story 2: “The Rain Connoisseur” by Robin Susanto

congratulations and best of luck for the award!

nominations Dzanc Best of Web + Micro Awards

after the Sundress nominations in September, now the next award nominations: Dzanc Best of Web, and the Micro Award. as noted before, it's always a difficult task, but also a pleasure to revisit the previous issues, and send out the nomination mails to the award judges and the authors.

plus, it's a special joy to send links to Best of Web after one of the  BluePrintReview stories made it into their 2010 anthology: Nostrum by Michelle Reale.

and now.. the nominations 2011:

BluePrintReview nominations for Dzanc Best of Web 2011:

- Susan M. Gibb: Descriptions 

- Sheldon Lee Compton: How To Burn Years

- Tyler Cobb: Pre-Cell Observations In Two Parts


BluePrintReview nominations for the Micro Award 2011:

- Kirsty Logan - Imaginary Birds

- Ed Higgins - Five

best of congratulations, and good luck for the awards!

blueprintreview story selected for dzanc best of web

nice nice news: a story from blueprintreview has been selected for inclusion in Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2010!

it's a story from the shortcuts/detours issue:
"Nostrum" by Michelle Reale

here the starting lines:
Nostrum
Her mother whispers a promise: that if she is a good, good girl, she will be baptized. They will plug her nose and tip her back into the lake. It’s all she can think about...

congratulations, Michelle!

and here, the link to Dzanc: Dzanc Books. it's exciting to see this web initiative continue, and it sounds like the Best of Web 2010 will be fascinating, here's a passage from Matt Bell's notification mail: "Kathy Fish and I read an incredible number of very worthy nominations this year, and we're thrilled by the final list of selected stories, poems, and essays, which we truly believe represent much of what makes the online literary world such a great place to be a reader, writer, and editor."