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Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, @PoetsInPajamas , @StirringLit , @RogueAgentJ , @beestungmag , & more!

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The Sundress Academy for the Arts is now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for summer residencies! Fellowships available for Palestinian writers, Black & Indigenous writers, writers of color, and women writers over 50.
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Sundress Publications is now open for full-length poetry manuscripts! Submission fees waived for BIPOC writers and anyone who purchases one of our titles.
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If you have a now un-homed book under contract with Eyewear, we will look at your manuscript for free at Sundress. DM for info.
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In an effort to support and uplift Palestinian voices, Sundress Publications is announcing two new opportunities for writers of Palestinian descent. Find out more about our new residency fellowship and upcoming microgrant!
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We're now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for their spring residency period which runs from January 1 to May 12, 2024. Fellowships available for LGBTQIA+ writers and Black and/or Indigenous writers.
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We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Jose Hernandez Diaz's newest full-length collection, The Parachutist, which will be published in early 2025!
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The 2023 Best of the Net is LIVE! Check out this year's winners, finalists, and more! Our deepest gratitude to this year's judges, readers, and staff. This is very much a labor of love, and we love you all!
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This year's Best of the Net is LIVE! With work from Leila Chatti, Imani Davis, Alice Friman, Dean Rader, Hayan Charara, Christine Kitano, and many many more! You can read them all (and see our full list of finalists) to get you in the mood for #AWP19 !
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts! We’re looking for manuscripts of forty-eight to eighty (48-80) single-spaced pages! Our submission fee is waived for writers of color or those who purchase a book!
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2 years
We are very excited to welcome Rita Mookerjee to our editorial board! Mookerjee is an Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at Worcester State University. She is a co-founder of Honey Literary, Inc. and a Poetry Editor at Split Lip Magazine.
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We're open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts including short stories, novellas, memoir, creative nonfiction, hybrid work, etc. Until 12/14, submissions to this open reading period are free for the first submission for any and all writers.
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Sundress Publications is now open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts in all genres.
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The 2023 Best of the Net Anthology is now open for nominations! We want to see your journal's best poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and now, comics! The nomination deadline is September 30th!
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Congratulations to Sundress author and board member, jason b. crawford, whose second collection was just accepted for publication by @Omnidawn !
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We're open for grant applications from writers of Palestinian descent. The grant will award $500, a slot in Sundress's reading series, a one-week residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN, and more. Deadline 12/31.
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February 1st is the deadline to apply for our summer writing residencies at Firefly Farms! We have multiple fellowships for writers of color as well as scholarships for those with financial need. Write with us this summer in Knoxville, TN!
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Nominations are now open for the annual Best of the Net anthology from Sundress Publications! Editors, send us your faves from July 2018-June 2019!
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Calling all writers! This is your reminder that the deadline to apply for the Poets in Pajamas 2024 cohort is tomorrow, December 18th. $250 Honorarium! Submit! Submit! We would be honored to read your work. Submission details on our WordPress:
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts! From June 1st through 14th, submissions to this contest are free for the first submission for any and all writers. Find out more here!
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6 years
The 2018 Best of the Net is LIVE!! Check out this year's issue with work from Hanif Abdurraqib, Silas Hansen, Meghann Plunkett, Roy G. Guzman, Scherezade Siobhan, Meghan Privitello, Tariq Luthum, Eugenia Leigh, and many many more!
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2 years
Submissions are now open for our 6th annual poetry broadside contest! The winner’s poem will be letterpress-printed as an 8.5” x 11” broadside complete with custom art and made available for sale on our online store. The winner will receive $200 and 20 copies of their broadside.
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The 2024 Best of the Net Anthology is open for nominations! Editors can nominate work in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art.
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We're accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for their summer residency period. Fellowships available for Palestinian writers, Black & Indigenous writers, writers of color, and women writers over 50.
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Sundress Publications is now open for our 11th annual e-chapbook contest! We are looking for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work as are visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works between 12-26 pages.
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5 years
Sundress Publications is now open for full-length poetry manuscripts!! This year our top selection from the reading period also will receive a free one-week writing residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN!
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This year Best of the Net received over 2000 poetry nominations, 600 fiction nominations, and 450 nonfiction nominations! We are so excited to read your submissions and learn more about all of the amazing work being published online!
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts! We’re looking for manuscripts of forty-eight to eighty (48-80) single-spaced pages! Our submission fee is waived for writers of color or those who purchase a book!
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We are thrilled to announce that Eduardo C. Corral will serve as this year's Best of the Net poetry judge! Follow him at @EduardoCCorral !
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Sundress Publications is now open for our 11th annual e-chapbook contest! We are looking for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work as are visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works between 12-26 pages.
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The Sundress Academy for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is looking for a Writer in Residence to run from January 1st to May 12th, 2024. This fully funded residency will require 10-20 hours of work exchange. Applications due 9/30!
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5 years
We are thrilled to introduce you to our 2019 Best of the Net poetry judge, @Eloisa_Amezcua . Amezcua is from Arizona. Her debut collection, From the Inside Quietly, is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by @adalimon .
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We are so excited to welcome our newest resident, Rita Mookerjee! @RitaMookerjee is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Worcester State University. She is the author of False Offering from @JacklegPress (Fall 2023).
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We are very excited to welcome our newest resident and fellowship winner, Rasha Abdulhadi! @rashaabdulhadi is a queer Palestinian Southerner living with Long Covid.
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Sundress Publications announces an open submission call for Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gaps in Literature & the Silences Around Us, a collection of works by contemporary transmasculine poets edited by Remi Recchia. Find submission details here:
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Nominations are now open for the 2018 Best of the Net anthology!
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9 months
We're now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for their spring residency period which runs from January 1 to May 12, 2024. Fellowships available for LGBTQIA+ writers and Black and/or Indigenous writers.
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10 months
The 2024 Best of the Net Anthology is open for nominations! Editors can nominate work in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art.
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We're now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for our fall residency period (August 21st to December 31st). Fellowships available for women and nonbinary writers as well as Black and/or Indigenous writers.
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We're accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for their summer residency period. Fellowships available for Palestinian writers, Black & Indigenous writers, writers of color, and women writers over 50.
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Calling all poets! We are looking for readers for our Fall 2023 reading series in Knoxville, TN. We support our readers with a $100 honorarium and promotion on our social media pages. Applications due by 7/15!
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Sundress Publications is now open for full-length poetry manuscripts! Submission fees waived for BIPOC writers and anyone who purchases one of our titles.
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The Sundress Academy for the Arts is looking for a Writer in Residence to run from January 1st to May 12th, 2024. This fully funded residency will require 10-20 hours of work exchange. Applications due 9/30!
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The Sundress Academy for the Arts at Firefly Farms is looking for a Writer in Residence to run from January 1st to May 12th, 2024. This fully funded residency will require 10-20 hours of work exchange. Applications due September 30th!
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Sundress Publications is now open for full-length poetry manuscripts!! This year our top selection from the reading period also will receive a free one-week writing residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN!
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We're accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for our fall residency period! Fellowships available for women & nonbinary writers, trans & nonbinary writers, and Black and/or Indigenous writers. Applications due May 1st!
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Very excited to introduce this year's fiction judge for Best of the Net, Kristen Arnett! @Kristen_Arnett is the queer author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction.
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The 2024 Best of the Net Anthology is open for nominations! Editors can nominate work in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art.
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We're accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for our fall residency period! Fellowships available for women & nonbinary writers, trans & nonbinary writers, and Black and/or Indigenous writers. Applications due May 1st!
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The 2024 Best of the Net Anthology is open for nominations! Editors can nominate work in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art.
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A big welcome to our newest social media intern, Zora Satchell! Zora Satchell is a Black and Chinese American queer poet and cinephile who writes about mental illness, film, family, and friendship. She holds a degree in Ethnic Studies from Colorado State University.
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We are so excited to have Carla Sofia Ferreira back at the SAFTA residency! @csferreira08 is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a high school English teacher in and from Newark, New Jersey.
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The 2024 Best of the Net Anthology is open for nominations! Editors can nominate work in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art.
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers with a chapbook in progress!
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We're now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, journalism, academic writing, and more—for their fall residency period (August 21st to December 31st).
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We are thrilled to introduce our newest Fiction Editor for Best of the Net, Shipra Agarwal! Shipra Agarwal is a doctor-turned-author who studied creative writing at Harvard. A Pushcart nominee, Shipra writes about the small towns of India, similar to the one she grew up in.
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The 2023 Best of the Net Anthology is now open for nominations! We want to see your journal's best poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and now, comics! The nomination deadline is September 30th!
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SundressPublications
9 months
Just 3 MORE DAYS to submit your full-length poetry manuscripts! We’re looking for manuscripts of forty-eight to eighty (48-80) single-spaced pages! Our submission fee is waived for writers of color or those who purchase a book!
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11 months
Calling all poets! We are looking for readers for our Fall 2023 reading series in Knoxville, TN. We support our readers with a $100 honorarium and promotion on our social media pages. Applications due by 7/15!
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9 months
Just 2 MORE DAYS to submit your full-length poetry manuscripts! We’re looking for manuscripts of forty-eight to eighty (48-80) single-spaced pages! Our submission fee is waived for writers of color or those who purchase a book!
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Sundress Publications is now open for our Spring 2024 internships. This remote volunteer position will run from January 1 to June 30, 2024. Applications due 11/30!
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Sundress Publications is pleased to announce that we are now open for submissions for our annual poetry broadside contest. From September 1st through 7th, submissions to this contest are free for the first submission for any and all writers.
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2 years
The 2023 Best of the Net Anthology is now open for nominations! We want to see your journal's best poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and now, comics! The nomination deadline is September 30th. Be sure to tag us in your nomination posts!
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8 months
We're open for submissions for grant applications from Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers with a chapbook in progress. The Light Bill Incubator Microgrant will award $500, a slot in Sundress’s reading series, a one-week residency, and more!
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In an effort to support and uplift Palestinian voices, Sundress Publications is announcing two new opportunities for writers of Palestinian descent. Find out more about our new residency fellowship and upcoming microgrant!
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Sundress Publications is now open for submissions of full-length manuscripts. All authors are welcome to submit qualifying manuscripts during our reading period, which runs from June 1st to August 15th, 2018.
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2 years
Nominations are now open for Best of the Net, an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing.
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2 years
Submissions are open for our poetry broadside contest! The winner’s poem will be letterpress-printed as an 8.5” x 11” broadside complete with custom art and made available for sale on our online store. Winner receives $200 and 20 copies of their broadside.
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Thursday is the last day to submit for free to this year's prose open reading period! We are interested speculative memoir; strange or fractured narratives; flash fiction; experimental work; or work with strong attention to lyricism and language.
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Last year a plagiarism scandal hit the small press poetry community hard. This is the first installment of the conversation that stemmed from this event, featuring @ek_anderson , @chenchenwrites , Wanda Deglane, Teo Mungaray, and Jeanne Obbard.
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Sundress Publications is pleased to announce that we are now open for submissions for our annual poetry broadside contest. From September 1st through 7th, submissions to this contest are free for the first submission for any and all writers.
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Sundress Publications is now open for full-length poetry manuscripts! Submission fees waived for BIPOC writers and anyone who purchases one of our titles.
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Our newest series, Craft Chaps, is now live with free downloadable chapbooks on craft in both fiction and poetry by Chen Chen, Ángel García, and Bayo Ojikutu! Get yours today!
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We are excited to announce we will be publishing Boom Box, the second full-length collection by Amorak Huey as part of our 2019 catalog!
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts! We’re looking for manuscripts of forty-eight to eighty (48-80) single-spaced pages. Submission fee is waived for all BIPOC writers and those who purchase a Sundress title!
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We are thrilled to announce that we will be publishing Bury Me In Thunder by Moira J as part of our 2019 catalog! Moira J. is a nonbinary writer from the Dzil Łigai Si'an N'dee (White Mountain Apache Nation) who now lives in Boston.
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The Sundress Academy for the Arts is now open for summer residency applications! We have multiple fellowships for writers of color as well as scholarships for those with financial need. Write with us this summer in Knoxville, TN! Applications due: 2/1.
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We are thrilled to introduce our newest Fiction Coordinator for Best of the Net, Tasha Coryell! Coryell teaches English at the University of Alabama where she received her MFA. Her first collection of short stories, Hungry People, is coming out July 2018 from Split Lip Press.
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Sundress Publications is now open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts. We can't wait to read yours!
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1 year
We're open for our 11th annual e-chapbook contest! We are looking for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work between twelve to twenty-six (12-26) pages in length. Submission fees are waived for everyone from March 1st to March 14th!
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Sundress Publications is now open for its 13th annual e-chapbook contest! Authors of all genres may submit manuscripts between 12-26 pages. Submission deadline is May 31st!
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The Sundress Reading Series is now open for applications to read at our spring reading series beginning in February 2024. Readers will receive a $100 honorarium. Applications due November 15th!
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We're open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts! We will choose at least two manuscripts from the open reading period. The top selection also will receive a free one-week writing residency at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN!
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Sundress Publications is now accepting applications for our Sundress Reads Review Editor! This volunteer position lets you work with a team of reviewers and interns to craft weekly reviews of recent books from independent publishers. Applications due 5/31!
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Less than two weeks to submit your chapbooks to our annual contest! Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, & hybrid work are welcome as are visual poetry, poetry comics, & visual hybrid works. Submission fees waived for writers of color & those who purchase a book!
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Sundress Publications is now open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts.
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10 months
We are very excited to welcome our newest resident and fellowship winner, Julieanne Larick! Larick is a poet from Ohio and student at The College of Wooster. She serves as prose editor for jmww Journal and social media manager for The Dodge.
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts! From June 1st through 14th, submissions to this contest are free for the first submission for any and all writers. Find out more here!
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Just THREE MORE DAYS to apply for summer residencies at the Sundress Academy for the Arts! Fellowships available for Palestinian writers, Black & Indigenous writers, writers of color, and women writers over 50.
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We are thrilled to announce that Heather Qin‘s chapbook, Nomad, was selected by Rita Mookerjee as the winner of our 2023 e-chapbook contest. Moni Brar’s chapbook, Migrant Wish, was this year’s Editor’s Choice. Learn more here.
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