The B’K and All My Relations nominates for best of competitions! Here are our nominations for the 2024 season with direct links to the works:
Best of the Net Nominations
The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology (created by Sundress Publications) 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. This space has been created to bring greater respect to the continually expanding world of exceptional digital publishing. The work nominated must have been first published between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. We’ve nominated:
For Poetry:
- “unfixing” by Saheed Sunday, The B’K Volume 14, Issue 4, pg 5
- “Marginalia on Relationships and Bees” by Bobbie Orona Burgos, The B’K Volume 15, Issue 1, pgs. 12-16
- “Black” by Ayòdéjì Israel, The B’K Volume 15, Issue 1, pgs. 18-19
- “how my parents will react when i come out to them as transgender” by Salem Paige, The B’K Volume 15, Issue 2, pgs. 6-7
- “things are constantly happening: A prose poem for cis people” by nat raum, All My Relations, Volume 6, pgs. 10-11
For Fiction:
- “Hormones (the Right Ones)” by Amy Cadence, The B’K Volume 14, Issue 3, pgs. 16-18
- “Boomgates on the Wheelchair Ramp” by Ella T. Holmes, The B’K Volume 15, Issue 1, pgs. 30-34
For Nonfiction:
- “I am afraid for my lover and me every minute” by Leo Rodriguez, The B’K Volume 14, Issue 4, pg. 15
- “Trans Pietà” by Magdalena Poost, The B’K Volume 15, Issue 2, pgs. 8-12
For Art:
- “Out of Time” by S. Kavi, The B’K Volume 15, Issue 1, cover
- “Resistance” by Chris Talbot-Heindl, All My Relations, Volume 6, cover
