ASP Bulletin Announces Nominations for Best of the Net 2022
ASP's in-house literary journal nominates nine authors for the Best of the Net 2022
The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology started in 2006. Online publications can submit pieces in four categories: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and art. For this year, the Bulletin submitted a total of nine authors in three different categories. They are as follows:
Leslie Pietrzyk: Keep Your Dead Close (NF)
James J. Patterson: Hermes at the Kakistocracy Hotel (NF)
dave ring: Non-Volatile Memory (Fic)
Ellen White Rook: Center Square Oblivion (P)
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood: Hunger (P)
Richard Peabody: Elevator in the Brain Hotel (P)
Kathleen Hellen: revisions to the catalogue of folktale types (P)
Jen Karetnick: We Pretend Britney Spears Is a Hurricane (P)
Tara Isabel Zambrano: a girl on the beach (P)
Saida Agostini’s Work Appears in Pride Poems 2022
For pride month 2022 Saida Agostini reads her (VERY NSFW) poem “Adventures of the Third Limb”
Elizabeth Hazen Essay Lands in Coachella Review
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ASP Celebrates AAPI Month With Selections from the Work of Linda Watanabe McFerrin
ASP celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with works by Japanese-American poet and writer, Linda Watanabe McFerrin. The two poems and one essay below are featured in her Legacy Collection, Navigating the Divide.