ONE ART’s 2026 Best Spiritual Literature Nominations

Kathy Nelson – Farewell with Potato Blight and Moose

Connie Soper – Cynthia’s Gift

Joy Gaines-Friedler – If you Don’t Believe in God What Do you Believe in?

Laura Grace Weldon – Swedish Death Cleaning

Renee Emerson – My Lost Boys

Kathryn Jordan – Free Range

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~ About The Award ~

BEST SPIRITUAL LITERATURE
(formerly The Orison Anthology)

“Editors of literary periodicals (print or digital) may nominate work in a single genre or in multiple genres to be considered for inclusion in our annual anthology, Best Spiritual Literature, which will reprint the finest spiritually engaged writing from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives. Work selected for inclusion will appear alongside the winners of The Best Spiritual Literature Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry. The author of any work selected for inclusion will receive a complimentary copy of the anthology; the periodical where the work originally appeared will also receive a complimentary copy.”