WELL READ Magazine's Best of 2025 Volume One - Paperback

by Leslie Zemeckis (Author), Rachid Toumi (Author), Ann Hite (Author)

In the Best of 2025 Volume One, you'll find forty-one submissions written by a fantastic mix of award-winning authors and poets plus new ones to the scene. Five submissions in this volume were nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Why I Said What I Said to the Bartender by Alaina Hammond, The Easter Dress by Dawn Major, Montecito by Leslie Zemeckis, Dream Merchant by Francine Rodriguez, and Stagnation by Rachid Toumi. The cover art is a photograph by artist, Malcolm Glass, who had several pieces published in October of 2024.

List of Contributors: J. B. Hogan, Steve Putnam, Gregg Norman, Deborah-Zenha Adams, Rita Welty Bourke, B.A. Brittingham, Mike Turner, Leslie Zemeckis, Micah Ward, John Drudge, Jennifer Susan Smith, DeLane Phillips, Julie Green, Ann Hite, Mary Kendall, John M. Williams, Alaina Hammond, Jake Sheff, JoyAnne O'Donnell, Aaron Goodman, Dawn Major, Souad Zakarani, Zoé Mahfouz, Don Edwards, Celia Miles, Malcolm Glass, Neth Williams, Hubert Blair Bonds, Rickie Zayne Ashby, Francine Rodriguez, Rachid Toumi, Mike Ross, James Garrison, Mike Nemeth, and Robin Prince Monroe