Best of the Net 2025

Fiction

"Call the Dybbuk" by Elizabeth Cohen

"Only Good Things" by Rita Taryan

 

Poetry

"Knit Your Own Cat This Election" by Janet Bowdan

"The Antiquarian Wants to Catalogue Her Ghosts" by Susan Cohen

"On Easter Sunday, I Went to a Play About the Holocaust" by Eric Raanan Fischman

"Independence Day" by Owen Lewis

"Teething in Captivity" by Haya Pomrenze

"LXXVIII." by J.T. Whitehead

 

Best Small Fictions 2024

"Jerusalem" by Isaac James Richards

"Where the Sky Meets the Sea" by Nicole Hart

 

Pushcart Prize 2024

"Jewish American Dream 7: To Boldly Go" by Danny Caine

"Aloft" by Sharon Dolin

"Last Night" by Eva Eliav

"Tomatoes" by Henry Israeli

"A Yid Is a Yid" by Matthew Lippman

"Dear Mahsa" by Fran Markover

 

Best Spiritual Literature 2024

"Do Not Recede" by Jonathan Cohen

"Aloft" by Sharon Dolin

"Why I Say Davven" by David Ebenbach

"Kaddish on Jane Street" by Rebecca Faulkner

"Erev Shabbat, I Become Matriarch" by Barbara Rockman

"ז Zayin" by Sue Rose

 

Best New Poets 2024

"Modern Biblical Moments" by Josh Lefkowitz

"Leaving Moab" by Adrienne Pilon

 

Best Microfiction 2023

"Survivors" by Eva Eliav

"Tree of Life" by Jeffrey Wolf

 

Pushcart Prize 2023

"Shivli" by Valerie Bacharach

"Comfort O Comfort" by Cathleen Cohen

"Lilith menstruates for the first time" by Jennifer Garfield

"Leaving Moab" by Adrienne Pilon

"Self-Portrait as Half-Jew Celebrating Hanukkah" by Meghan Sterling

"Stun" by Leah Umansky

 

Best Spiritual Literature 2023

"Giving It Up" by Carol V. Davis

"Herring Gut" by Marc Alan Di Martino

"How Many Tears Can a Woman Cry Before She Has No Tears Left?" by Marissa Glover

"Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen" by Marc Jampole

"Viewmaster Slide, Noah and the Ark" by Marci Rae Johnson

"When God Looked Down" by Katie Manning

 

Best of the Net 2023

"Shivli" by Valerie Bacharach

"The Poem About Anti-Semitism" by David Ebenbach

"Viewmaster Slide, Noah and the Ark" by Marci Rae Johnson

"Wrestling with God" by Katie Manning

"Things Angels Might Do" by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

"Bobolinko Can't Shoot" by Kenneth Pobo

 

Best New Poets 2023

"The Red Triangle" by Margaret Dornaus

"Raven" by e

 

Pushcart Prize 2022

"The Red Triangle" by Margaret Dornaus

"The Poem About Anti-Semitism" by David Ebenbach

"The Journey Back" by Stewart Florsheim

"Traif" by Laura Goldin

"For a Friend Going Deaf" by Jane Rosenberg LaForge

"My Mother's Necklace" by Gail Newman

 

Best Spiritual Literature 2022

Sarah Etlinger's poem, “pomegranate / seeded apple / beginnings”, from our fourth issue, has been chosen to be included in the 2023 edition of Best Spiritual Literature.

 

“There Is an Accidental Address Where Shabbat Light (Łódź Ghetto)” by Ronda Piszk Broatch

“Enough Beauty in This World” by Risa Denenberg

“Yom Kippur” and “pomegranate / seeded apple / beginnings” by Sarah Etlinger

“Flight” by Gail Newman

“His Ladder” by Jamie Wendt

 

Best of the Net 2022

"Nana’s Last Hanukkah" by Marc Alan Di Martino

"Magic Loaf" by Robbi Nester

"Night of the Murdered Poets" by Susan Cohen

"For a Friend Going Deaf" by Jane Rosenberg LaForge

"Judith, on the Way to Slay Holofernes" by Deborah Bacharach

"And That Is Why There Are No Origin Stories Any More" by Risa Denenberg

 

Best New Poets 2022

"In Miracles" by Elya Braden

"The 'O' in God" by Kimberly Kolbe

 

Pushcart Prize 2021

"Self-Portrait with Origin Story" by Valerie Bacharach

"Dusk" by Elizabeth J. Coleman

"When Our Train Arrived in Warsaw" by Eva Eliav

"Dream Borders" by Betsy Mars

"Hummingbird" by Jason Olsen

"The Song You Never Wrote" by Julie Weiss