The Gorko Gazette

BEST OF THE NET

From the BotN website: The Best of the Net is 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. This space has been created to bring greater respect to the continually expanding world of exceptional digital publishing.

THE GORKO’S 2027 NOMINATIONS

PUBLISHED JULY 2025 TO JUNE 2026. CLICK TITLE TO READ!

POETRY

Oliver Baer
’87.’

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jenkin benson
‘food for though’

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Jayanta Bhaumik
‘I literally spoilt the vanilla each time offered to me’

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James Callan
‘Raven for a Parrot’

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Sreelekha Chatterjee
‘My Elevator Pitch’

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Damon Hubbs
‘The Catalogue of Ships’

FICTION

Nicholas Viglietti
‘Run Weird Like Ducks on Dry Land’

ART

Theodore Wallbanger
‘Orangina Sabrina’

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Oliver Baer does many things. He was the editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine and Two Backed Books. His epistolary novel, Letters to the Editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine, was published in October 2019. His short stories have appeared in two books of Soul Scream Antholozine, Trembling with Fear, Even in the Grave and April Grey’s anthologies as well as others. His essays have been on blogs as well as books. His poetry has appeared in Goodreads Best Poems 2020, Empire Poetry Verse, Hear We Are, two books of Soul Scream Antholozine, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Punk Noir Magazine, Paper Teller Diorama, Cthulhu Sex Magazine, Horror Between the Sheets, Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. II and other publications. His book of poetry and photographs, Baer Soul, came out in 2011. His CD of poetry set to music, Gathering Souls, which came out in 2013, spawned the show A Conclave of Baer. The band Lucky Witch and the Righteous Ghost, released an EP, Dreams in the Witch House, that is inspired both by HP Lovecraft and his poems. He was the writer for Deena Warner’s Halloween Card project in 2021. He has appeared as an indescribable horror from the depths, sometimes with a light saber, and his likeness has appeared on tv and film while his voice has been heard on internet radio as well as a podcast or two. There have also been various artistic renditions created of him. He is visible using the virtual spectrum of social media by following him on Twitter https://twitter.com/obaer and/or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/obaer3 Much of his work can be found at http://tentacularity.wordpress.com

jenkin benson is a poet, scholar, and musician. he is from iowa. find his work here: https://linktr.ee/jenkinbenson

Jayanta Bhaumik is from Kolkata, India, from the field of Mental Health & Counselling. His recent or past works can be found in Poetry Superhighway, Juked, Blue Lake Review, Acropolis Journal, Madswirl, Fourth & Sycamore, Version(9), Loglorien Poetry Anthology, Fevers of The Mind Anthology, 100 Poems for 21st Century Anthology by Rough Diamond, and elsewhere. His first Chapbook is going to be published from Alien Buddha Press in the middle of December 2025. He has been nominated as the Best of the Net by Fevers of The Mind in August 2025. His X handle: @BhaumikJayanta

James Callan lives and writes in Aotearoa (New Zealand). His fiction has appeared in Apocalypse Confidential, Burial Magazine, X-R-A-Y, Reckon Review, Mystery Tribune, and elsewhere. His collection, Those Who Remain Quiet, is available from Anxiety Press.

Sreelekha Chatterjee is a poet from New Delhi, India. Her poems have appeared in Setu, Ninth Heaven, Fixator Press, Timber Ghost Press, The Candyman’s Trumpet, Ghudsavar Literary Magazine, The Argyle Literary Magazine, Blood Honey, Ultramarine Literary Review, The MockingOwl Roost, SHINE Quarterly, Fevers of the Mind, and in the anthologies—Enchanted Encounters (Bitterleaf Books, UK), 100 Poems for the 21st Century (Rough Diamond Poetry, UK), among others. Her poems have been widely published in more than forty journals, magazines, and anthologies globally across twelve countries, and translated into Korean and Romanian languages.

Facebook: facebook.com/sreelekha.chatterjee.1/
X: @sreelekha001
Instagram @sreelekha2023
Bluesky: @sreelekha2024

Damon Hubbs is a poet from New England. Recent publications include The Bulb Region, Trampoline, Bullshit Lit, Version (9) Magazine, Virgo Venus Press, Revolution John, Horror Sleaze Trash, and others. He is the author of the poetry collections Nighttime Logic and Venus at the Arms Fair.

Nicholas Viglietti is a writer from Sacramento, CA. After Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, he rebuilt homes there for 2 years. Up in Mon-tucky, he cut trails in the wilderness. He pedaled from Sac-town to S.D. He’s  a seventh-life party-hack, attempting to rip chill lines out of the madness.

More reads by Nick-Migo @: www.clipsfromtheclose-out.com
Insta – @nico_chillietti
X – @nviglietti0

Berthed from mischievous leprechauns near technicolor shadow lands surrounding Honah Lee, Theodore Wallbanger rides mysterious sparkle railcars bursting with crunchy cotton candy clouds dispatched from slippery erotic massage vixens who rage pillow laugh hourly within a splintered transportation module that screams along butterscotch wonder tracks forming vibrations for audiences across Sugar Hill Mountain.

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