Writers’ Bloc is proud to announce its nom­in­a­tions for this year’s Dzanc Books Best of the Web.

First, how­ever, I feel that I should take a moment to clarify—perhaps only for the sake of avoid­ing legal action from aggrieved LOLcats sites and Japan­ese Manga filth portals—that this isn’t the Best of the Entire Web. No, that would be a ridicu­lous and fool­hardy enter­prise. Rather, it is the Best of the Online Lit­er­ary Journal Web. Yes. Which isn’t the Entire Web, but is cer­tainly a sub­stan­tial sec­tion of it. Though I couldn’t give you a pre­cise per­cent­age. Obvi­ously not.

Or maybe I’m just think­ing about this all too much. I’m cur­rently very unused to writ­ing, you see. Even the act of try­ing to cla­rify thoughts makes my head hurt. Look at the pretty flowers. Pull your­self together. You’re sup­posed to be an editor. Edit your­self before you say some­thing you might regret.

So without fur­ther ado, the lucky winners—though you’re all win­ners to me, and even these win­ners aren’t actu­ally win­ners but are still only nom­in­ees (okay, I really am over-clarifying now)—are:

• Writ­ing, about writ­ing by Sean Lovelace
• Check, please? by Jimmy Chen
• Pity Party by Thomas Sul­li­van

I recom­mend read­ing this trio of pieces again, just to refresh your memory of them. But then, I also recom­mend re-reading the entire archives. I’m biased like that.

Thanks to all the con­trib­ut­ors who have appeared on these pages since Writers’ Bloc quietly slipped onto the net back in Feb­ru­ary. You made it very dif­fi­cult to choose just three nominees.