Sage Cigarettes Magazine Best of the Net nominations 2025

Unsplash/Michael Dziedzic
Unsplash/Michael Dziedzic

It’s that time again & our staff has participated in weeks of nominations & voting to finally settle on a group of poems, stories, non-fiction pieces, & art to nominate for Sundress Publishing’s 2025 Best of the Net anthology.

We will be promoting our picks by category daily Sept. 24-27 — so be sure to catch us on Instagram & Twitter. These pieces are some of our favorites that we published during the qualifying period. However, we are proud of everything we have published. & are infinitely grateful for the work our contributors, independent writers & artists, have put into their creations & thank everyone for sharing their work with us.

Fiction

“A Disabled Gargoyle Housekeeper in her Secret Garden” by Amanita Rose

“Wax” by Jasmine C. Griffin

Non-fiction

“My Country is Midas” by Aisling Fei

“Erasure” by Karen Crawford

Poetry

“Gremlin on an Armagh Sidewalk” by Stan Galloway

“Portrait of a Girl as Salt & Silt” by A. Benét

“Death Day” by Caroline Warner

“Among a God” by Brandon Shane

“Will o’ the Wisp” by Lydia Rae Bush

“petitioning Ra” by Brandi Everett

Art

“What of Wings” by Melissa Nunez

“Ghost Flowers” by Josh Cullen

“Probably, you just can’t love her…” by Irina Tall