Hi friends! We’re a little behind in announcing this since we’ve been hard at work reading your awesome Hella Whales submissions and launching the preorder campaign for Taylor Steele’s amazing Dirty.Mouth.Kiss, but we sent out our nominations for Best of the Net & we’re very excited to announce them!!! Nominated this year are:

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Anna Meister – Hating Thy Neighbor

Paige Chaplin – Clean

G*D – Witch House

Zeke Russell – Bounty

Aly Pierce – My Mother Daydreaming

Noel Quiñones –Teleportation

A.G. Abrams – Everything You Need To Know About Painting Except How To Do It

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If you haven’t already read these amazing poems (& one piece of creative nonfiction), why not check them out now? And don’t forget about Chen Chen’s Write a Letter to Your Mother About Your Longest Winter, which was selected for the anthology after we nominated it last year.