2025 Best of the Net Finalists!

It’s so nice to come back from our summer break to good news! We are proud to share that three of our talented contributors were named Best of the Net finalists for their work in Split Lip Magazine! Congratulations to fiction finalist Claudia Monpere for “Girl Locks,” poetry finalist Nat Raum for “A Photo Bro Asked Me a Patronizing Question in 2016 & I Am Still Thinking About It,” and art finalist Michael Young for “Resting on the Rocks, April.” Here’s to Claudia, Nat, and Micheal!

But that’s not all! Many other members of the Split Lip FAM were also featured in BOTN for their incredible work in other magazines.

A huge shout out to the FAM who made it into the anthology:

• Joshua Jones Lofflin for “In the Waiting Room” in COMP: an interdisciplinary journal

• jason b. crawford for “Untitled 1975-86” in West Trade Review

Finally, congratulations to FAM Best of the Net finalists:

• Geetha Iyer for “Love Songs in Other Languages” in Ecotone

• Tyler Raso for “self-portrait as that one scene from Pokémon: The First Movie” in Electric Literature: The Commuter

• Chen Chen for “Quintessence: For Recreational Purposes” in The Rejoinder

• Cortney Lamar Charleston for “It’s Important I Remember That Fascism Didn’t Come to America, It Was Already Here—” in The Common
  

Keep up the amazing work, FAM! And thank you to the Best of the Net Editors for making this anthology happen every year!