Congratulations to our 2025 Best Of The Net Nominees!

DarkWinter Literary Magazine is thrilled to announce our 2025 Best Of The Net nominees! Best Of The Net awards are annual literary recognition awards for poetry or prose published online, and hundreds of online journals participate. We were limited to 6 poems and 2 short stories published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025, and after another year of incredible writing by our contributors, it was an extremely difficult decision!

That having been said, we are very proud to present the DarkWinter Lit nominees for the Best Of The Net Anthology!

Paul Bavister - Spotted Green Pigeon

Dagne Forrest - Dead Reckoning

Bill Garvey - Boxing Day, 1965

Dan MacIsaac - Stepma's Hallowe'en

Gregg Norman - Dinner With Jim

Susan Richardson - Even Sorrow Has A Melody

Robert Steckling - Millie At 16

Susan Wingert - Mending Fences