Our Best of the Net Nominees
Here is RABBLE REVIEW's nominees for the Best of the Net 2026 anthology. Congrats to our nominees!
Hello reader. We are delighted to announce our nominees for the Best of the Net 2026 anthology. After 8 issues of RABBLE REVIEW, the editorial team decided to put our energy in further expanding. We want to find more ways to celebrate the work that our contributors share with us. Speaking personally, when Angel Neri and I started RABBLE REVIEW, I had a bit of imposter syndrome. Sure, we could ask for submissions, but were we a real literary journal? Would real writers and artists share their work with us? What cosmic force gave us the right to do this? When the submissions began to come in, that anxiety quickly evaporated. Soon we were eyeballs deep in a variety of work that were stunning, cutting, insightful, and bold.
This is a long way to say that we are also discovering some of the other responsibilities that come with our work as a literary journal. We have the ability to elevate the work we have been lucky enough to publish and present it to a broader stage. So we got to work, and we quickly realized that a lot of our contributors were nominated for awards, and those awards were nominated by previous journals they had sent their work to. So we finally found some time to decide on the works we would nominate. We only had one issue eligible for this years nominations. RABBLE REVIEW No.8 released this past March and it is filled to the brim with amazing work. To our contributors of Issue No.8, you did not make the task easy.
Before I share the nominees, I want to share how we selected our nominees. Because we are still dedicating so much energy to the completion of our upcoming ninth issue(out October 10th!), we couldn’t dedicate a ton of time to selecting the works. Hence why we only have one fiction nomination. As an editorial team our fiction choice was made together and it was unanimous. For art and poetry we split our votes between the three of us. Each editor, Jer, Angel, and myself, chose two works of poetry. For art we each chose one, but Angel and I both chose the same piece which is why there are only two picks for art. We know it’s not the most refined process but we were juggling multiple deadlines. Even still, we are happy with our collective choices. You can click the link to read or view the nominated pieces.
The nominated works are as followed:
Poetry:
Andrew Adjei’s Nominees
Jer Hurdis’s Nominees:
Angel Neri’s Nominees:
Art:
Fiction:
Congratulations to our nominees! We were delighted to showcase them in our issue and we hope they continue to find other audiences should they be chosen for the anthology. If you haven’t already, please check out the entirety of Issue No.8. Once you read it you will see why it was such a challenging process to whittle it down to only a few choices.
We hope to participate in other awards in the future, so be on the lookout. Subscribe to our newsletter so you know when we have a new issue out, or are accepting submissions. The submission window for our 10th issue will be opening later this month! Once again, a big round of applause to our nominees, thank you for sharing your work with us. It’s immense and we cannot wait to see what you create next!
