Dirt’s Best of 2023 🏆

This year, we decided to outsource our “Best Of Dirt” list to our biggest fans (people that open the newsletter more that 50% of the time) asking for their input on a list of superlatives and to sign a yearbook-style poster for the end of the year. 🫶

And the winners are…

Couldn’t stop thinking about · A story that lingered with you for some time
⭐ Vegetation by Evan Grillon

Mood-bender · A story that seamlessly wove a spectrum of feelings in you
⭐ Crying in Luke's Lobster by Bryan Woods 

Laughed out loud · A story that left you irresistibly amused
⭐ Requiem for the DVD menu by Jessica MacLeish

Broke your heart · A story that broke your heart
⭐ Grizzly man by Amelia K 

Story of the Year · A story that’s a masterpiece
⭐ Bad waitress by Becca Schuh

Honorable mentions · other stories that came up across categories

The Impossible Profession by Sophie Kemp · The Best by Joe Kelly · The sound of your voice by Joann Plockova · Cake by Laurie Stone · Skeuomorphia by Terry Nguyen · Melting pot music by Omar Garcia · Tumblr poet laureate by Terry Nguyen · The loneliness economy by Daisy Alioto · Authenticity anxiety by W. David Marx · Losing face by Leo Kim · Billboards still matter by Michelle Santiago Cortés · Steven Soderbergh's diaries by Kirthana Ramisetti · What Joan Didion means by Terry Nguyen · Introducing lifestyle by Daisy Alioto · Spice Must Flow by Lucia Tang · The Question of U by Amelia K · The future of search by Terry Nguyen · The female gays by Fiona Mozley · Was Riverdale camp? by Tia Glista · What was 'replying'? by Mariah Kreutter · Stiff as a board by Daniel Clemens · What type of lurker are you? by Michelle Santiago Cortés · Sleeping beauties by Jocelyn Silver & co · TennisTok by James Hansen · Big swinging axes by Jonny Diamond · Microsoft Word erotica by Natasha Piñon · The Carrie dress by Nicolaia Rips · Leather and lasagna by Tim Forster · For the love of chickens by Tove Danovich · Our convenient reality by Conor Truax · Tina, eat the food by Leo Kim · The state of music criticism · AI Abjection by Michelle Santiago Cortés · My women by Daisy Alioto · AI Bleed by Michelle Santiago Cortés · Hair Horrors by Lara Williams · Remembering Jezebel · Sarah Palin Forever ft. Terry Nguyen and Eryk Salvaggio · Cyber Aztlán by Vita Dadoo · Generosity and paranoia by Madeleine Connors · Which face is real? by Terry Nguyen · Unwritten profile by Daisy Alioto · Private survivors ft. Terry Nguyen and Kylie Cheung · The Gates of Hell by Samuel Rutter · The Taste Economy by Daisy Alioto · The Capitulation of Grimes by Michelle Santiago Cortés · Lonely heart by Sarah Miller · What is lifestyle? by Daisy Alioto

Have a great summer! Jk. Lol.

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