While we let all of the authors know, as well as the journals that
published the original stories, poems and
essays, but we never made a general announcement as to what authors are
going to be included in Best of the Web 2010 when it comes out in late
June. The Best of the Web 2010 can be pre-ordered here!
Matt Bell has taken over as Series Editor, and the fantastic Kathy Fish was our Guest Editor this year. Together we've come up with the following list:
| storySouth | Bachelder, Chris |
| Conservatory | |
| matchbook | Baldi, Brian |
| Ideally Learnt French for Beginners | |
| The Rumpus | Bassist, Elissa |
| A Baker's Dozen of My Feelings About David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest | |
| Necessary Fiction | Beach, Jensen |
| Family | |
| Memorious | Biddinger, Mary |
| Population: 41, 685 | |
| storySouth | Booten, Kyle |
| Flashlight Tag | |
| FRiGG | Bradley, Robert |
| Contemplations of the Saints | |
| Carve Magazine | Bromfield, Emily |
| One Way to Cook An Eel | |
| Apparatus Magazine | Bunting, Rachel |
| Martha Stewart Claims She Has Been Struck By Lightning Three Times | |
| Everyday Genius | Burch, Aaron |
| How To | |
| Redivider | Butler, Robert Olen |
| Intercourse | |
| The Rumpus | Chaon, Dan |
| What Happened to Sheila | |
| Web Conjunctions | Chinquee, Kim |
| Three Stories (* He Has Juice) | |
| Mississippi Review Online | Collins, Myfanwy |
| Wash, Dry, Fold | |
| Our Stories | Colón, Kristiana |
| Ex-Libris | |
| Keyhole | Cooper, Thomas |
| Tricks | |
| The Northville Review | Copeland, Lydia |
| Pact | |
| Guernica | Crane, Elizabeth |
| The Genius Meetings | |
| Smokelong Quarterly | Czyzniejewski, Michael |
| Pregnant With Peanut Butter | |
| Guernica | de la Paz, Oliver |
| Requiem for the Orchard | |
| Eleven Eleven | Doernberg, Alison |
| How I Forget the Shape of Your Mouth When You Are Deep In Thought | |
| The Summerset Review | Duthie, Kasandra Snow |
| Where the Glazed Girls Go | |
| Wigleaf | Ellen, Elizabeth |
| Samuel L. Jackson Is Not a Good Name for a Rabbit | |
| Valparaiso Poetry Review | Emerson, Claudia |
| Ground Truth | |
| Wag's Revue | Evenson, Brian |
| Father | |
| alice blue | Farrell, Lucas |
| Translations of "My Refrigerator Light Makes Its Way Toward You" Into the 34 Languages Spoken in the Many Woods of Grief | |
| Gigantic | Fletcher, Sasha |
| One Day All Your Teeth Will Be Mine | |
| American Short Fiction | Garson, Scott |
| Premises for an Action Plan | |
| ABJECTIVE | Gaudry, Molly |
| The Sky as John Saw It the Night Kate Sparkled | |
| DIAGRAM | Glenwood, Matthew |
| John Henry's Tracks | |
| Spork | Gray, Amelia |
| Cube | |
| SmokeLong Quarterly | Hamilton, Mary |
| Me and Theodore Are trapped in the trunk of the car with rags in our mouths and tape around our wrists and ankles, please let us out. | |
| NOÖ Journal | Hamilton, Mary |
| You wouldn't believe me if I told you, but Me and Theodore built a time machine | |
| Memorious | Harrison, Leslie |
| How I Became A Ghost | |
| H_NGM_N | Hart, Matt |
| I Feel Better and So Can You | |
| Fiction Writers Review | Hartzler, Christine |
| Games Are Not About Monsters | |
| Night Train | Hillard, Donora |
| From: Chorus from the Land of Grownups | |
| Lamination Colony | Hoang, Lily |
| The Woman Down the Hall | |
| Wigleaf | Housley, Dave |
| Pop Star Dead at 22 | |
| Juked | Jemc, Jac |
| Women in Wells | |
| Everyday Genius | Jones, Stephen Graham |
| Modern Love | |
| Spork | Kilpatrick, Sean |
| Selections from Sucker Jane | |
| Action Yes | Kirkpatrick, Matthew |
| Crystal Castles | |
| Jellyfish | Klasovsky, Stokely |
| Photo Opportunities for a Dislocated Elbow | |
| The Potomac | Kopelke, Kendra |
| After I Blew Through My Hysterectomy | |
| DIAGRAM | Languell, Krystal |
| Wife to Magritte | |
| > kill author | Lannie, Emma J. |
| Proxy | |
| FRiGG | Lennox, Charles |
| Touching the Spine | |
| Necessary Fiction | Levine, Sara |
| Baby Love | |
| Cerise Press | Li, Jie |
| The Taste of Mangoes | |
| Wigleaf | Lovelace, Sean |
| A Sigh is Just a Sigh | |
| Lamination Colony | Maday, Josh |
| [Night] the fields are screaming | |
| Storyglossia | Mangla, Ravi |
| Arrgh Luxury Cruises: An Authentic Pirate Adventure | |
| Everyday Genius | Markus, Peter |
| What We Tell Girl to Do With Us Brothers If We Ever Stop Making Mud | |
| Contrary | Martinez, Meredith |
| When I Say Love | |
| The Barefoot Muse | McCormick, James Scannell |
| Trouble | |
| Necessary Fiction | McDermott, Steven J. |
| When A Furnace Is All That Remains | |
| Everyday Genius | McLendon, David |
| Penumbra | |
| Wigleaf | Miller, Mary |
| Aesthete | |
| Brevity | Minor, Kyle |
| Suspended | |
| CEllA's Round Trip | Monson, Ander |
| Maybe Visionary Sermon | |
| Spork | Monson, Ander |
| Laughter Incidence | |
| Conjunctions | Nellen, Stefani |
| Tentacle Mind Report | |
| Journal of Truth and Consequence | Norwood, Amber |
| My Sister, the Kite | |
| Toasted Cheese | O'Connor, Frank |
| Foolish Creatures | |
| Staccato | Park, Cami |
| Glory | |
| Wigleaf | Pieroni, Jennifer |
| Now, Right Now | |
| Gold Wake Press | Platt, Julie |
| Karner Blue Butterly | |
| Gold Wake Press | Platt, Julie |
| Great White | |
| BluePrintReview | Reale, Michelle |
| Nostrum | |
| carte blanche | Rivera, Nanette Rayman |
| Sounds of Silence | |
| The Literary Bohemian | Rowley, Dave |
| Letter Written on a Paper Crane | |
| No Tell Motel | Ruocco, Joanna |
| When I Worked For Madonna | |
| Guernica | Rzicnek, F. Daniel |
| Geomancy | |
| Blackbird | Schutt, Christine |
| The Girl Needs to Be Kissed | |
| Brevity | Scott, Amy Lee |
| This Is Not To Say | |
| Lamination Colony | Simmons, Matthew |
| CAVES | |
| The Literary Bohemian | Sloat, Sarah J. |
| Attending the Tasting | |
| The Literary Bohemian | Standing, Sue |
| Journey (Aigues-Mortes) | |
| The Scrambler | Stein, Leigh |
| The Reckoning | |
| Storyglossia | Stevens, Angi Becker |
| Ghosts and Monsters | |
| failbetter | Svoboda, Terese |
| Swanbit | |
| DIAGRAM | Tarrier, August |
| Field Notes | |
| > kill author | Tyler, J.A. |
| Jimmy and his Father and the Ways About Them | |
| Terrain.org | Uschuk, Pamela |
| A Short History of Falling | |
| Storyglossia | Valente, Anne |
| To a Place Where We Take Flight | |
| Night Train | Walsh, William |
| Muse | |
| Agni Magazine | Welch, David |
| Instructional Ghazal | |
| Keyhole | Wells, Brandi |
| Fifteen Unrelated Stories Titled 'The Man Inside Her Pillowcase' | |
| Cerise Press | Wilner, Eleanor |
| Headlong for the Fair Target | |
| Joyland | Wilson, Kevin |
| Skin | |
| Storyglossia | Woodward, Angela |
| A Companion Text to Modernity and Self-Identity | |
| Emprise Review | Yien, Barbara |
| If You See Buddha on the Road, Kill Him | |
| Necessary Fiction | Yoder, Rachel |
| Arizona's Lonely | |
| Juked | Zaran, Lisa |
| Segue | |
This is very exciting!
Posted by: MoGa | April 05, 2010 at 06:03 PM
I really missed the deadline on this. Yikes.
Posted by: rr | April 20, 2010 at 01:41 PM
Hi Dzanc!
Could you be so kind as to list The Literary Bohemian as one of the "Best Web Online Journals?"
Thanks ever so much!
Carolyn Zukowski, Editor, The Literary Bohemian www.literarybohemian.com
Posted by: Carolyn Zukowski | April 20, 2010 at 03:10 PM
There are so many little bear episodes, I particularly enjoy the can't you sleep little bear story however. I enjoy this site.
Posted by: can't you sleep little bear story | August 02, 2011 at 08:52 PM
Best sellers indeed.
Night Train, man, such a good book!
Posted by: עיצוב אתרים | October 06, 2011 at 10:48 PM