VC’s 2025 Best of the Net Nominations

by Vagabond City Literary Journal

Art

Sunshine by Karissa Ho

Orange Street by Frances Jane Sleger

Conformity by Teresa Song

CNF

Outside the Box by Sara Streeter

Pain as a Mediocre Symphony Orchestra by Luscha Makortoff

Fiction

El Camino Real by N.H. Van Der Haar

The Bachelorette Party by Madeline Kaprich

Poetry

Mashhad, circa 1950: an iranian girl dreams by Annabelle Taghinia

Coming out dream by eric morris

Poem in which my fake dick sets off airport security by River Vetter

Abecedarian of platonic desire by Danielle Garland

b:a:d by Addison Branson

Grief’s Greasy Bones by Noll Griffin

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Founded in 2013, we are a literary journal dedicated to publishing outsider literature. We publish art, prose, reviews, and interviews from marginalized creators.