Congratulations to 45 Magazine Poetry Journal’s inaugural 2024 Best of the Net Nominee Award.

The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing. 

The nomination requirement had to be published between the dates of July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024.

We are proud to announce this year’s Best of the Net poetry nominees:

Lisa Borkovich, grave concerns

Renee Butner, Superstition

Michael Lee Johnson, Like Zen

Luleka Mhlanzi, Closure

Kari Martindale, Defining Whiteness

Janet Walenta, An Hourly Poem

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