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The Citron Review

A Journal of Brief Literature
Poetry I Creative Nonfiction I Flash Fiction | Micros
Established 2009

To read or submit your creative work, please visit: www.citronreview.com

19/07/2024

Did you know?
Every year, we nominate as many works from our pages as we can. Best Microfiction , The Pushcart Prize , Best of the Net Anthology , and The Best Small Fictions, we love you all.
Dear readers, perhaps you have favorites from our latest issue that we should consider? https://citronreview.com/

16/07/2024

Did you know?
The Citron Review is just about to celebrate its 15th anniversary! (Stay tuned.)
In the meantime, you might like to see how our Summer selections of Poetry take us boldly into the future.
https://citronreview.com/

09/07/2024

Have you heard?
We'll be opening our Submissions on August 1st.
In the meantime, we've just happen to have some Creative Nonfiction that's sure to inspire your new work!
https://citronreview.com/

08/07/2024

Our micros were whispering that they wanted to shout from the rooftops. Our Summer Issue is here!
https://citronreview.com/

05/07/2024

In our Zest section, all-star contributor Charlotte Smith Hamrick has a conversation with author and poet, Shome Dasgupta whose new book of stories, Atchafalaya Darling (Belle Point Press) will surely hop into our hearts this summer.
https://citronreview.com/2024/07/01/q-a-with-shome-dasgupta/

02/07/2024

Congratulations to our Citron contributors on their Wigleaf Top 50 2024 Longlist announcement!
Thank you Wigleaf for your continued excellence!

“Mother Tongue”by Kik Lodge,
https://citronreview.com/2023/06/30/mother-tongue/
“If We’d Only…Well, We Might Have” by Elissa Field,
https://citronreview.com/2023/10/01/if-wed-only-well-we-might-have/
“Fall Colors” by Stephen Tuttle,
https://citronreview.com/2023/12/29/fall-colors/
“What the Tides Reveal” by Eric Scot Tryon.
https://citronreview.com/2023/10/01/what-the-tides-reveal/

by Eric Scot Tryon The jellyfish lay lifeless on the sand. No longer an ocean ballerina, now a jello mold that never set. Dirty white. Hints of pink. Bites of brown. Teenagers poked it with stick…

01/07/2024

Yes indeed it's too darn hot... please cool down with us in the Summer 2024 issue!
https://citronreview.com

27/05/2024

This spring we welcome two new members to the team. Lisa K. Buchanan joins Creative Nonfiction as a guest reader. You might remember her Fall 2023 publication with Citron, “How I Lose Him.” You can also find her writings in Bending Genres, The Brevity Blog, The Ekphrastic Review, and New Ohio Review. In 2023 her work was awarded a Notable in Best American Essays, and in 2022 she was awarded First Place in CRAFT’s Short Fiction Prize.

Joining as a guest reader in Poetry, Gigi Guizado is an actor, writer, and theatre translator. Her micro-plays have had productions or staged readings in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and London. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and published in The Emerson Review, Rogue Agent Journal, Salamander Ink Magazine, The Bluebird Word, among others. Her translations have been published in Another Chicago Magazine, Asymptote Journal, The Mercurian, and featured on Performing International Plays.

27/05/2024

Welcome to our Spring Issue!
We're full of blossoms!

08/04/2024

Seems like a momentous occasion to announce that we're full open for submissions and a brand new Spring Issue is coming soon!
Don't forget to wear your protective viewing glasses, everyone!
https://citronreview.com/

01/01/2024

Thanks for spending 2023 with us. Happy New Year from all of us at !

29/12/2023

Our Winter Issue has arrived.
Sweet and sour and extra extra citron!
https://citronreview.com/

24/10/2023

We are thrilled to announce that Carolyn Abram will be our Flash Fiction Guest Editor for the Winter Issue!

Carolyn is a writer, teacher, and editor based out of Seattle. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Under Review, Scary Mommy, Lit-Sea, Bellevue Literary Review, Lilith, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She is also the author of eight editions of Facebook for Dummies. She currently teaches classes at Seattle’s Hugo House and is searching for representation for her novel. Get in touch or find out more: www.carolynabram.com

03/10/2023

Our journal of brief literature beckons you to the fall season.
https://citronreview.com

04/08/2023

Our Summer issue is here and just in time!
https://citronreview.com/
We're open for submissions too. Come and see what we're all about. We're a Journal of Brief Literature. Please take as many morsels as you care to.

03/07/2023

24/06/2023

Please join us in welcoming Liz Galvez as our new Assistant Editor & Reader!

Liz Galvez travels between dimensions and resurrects her memories to write poetry about it. She earned a BA in English and a minor in Creative Writing with an emphasis in poetry from Nevada State in 2023. Liz is honored to be the 2022 recipient of the John Oliver Simon Award and received 1st place at Nevada State’s URCW Creative Works panel in 2018 and 2022. Her poem “Dissecting Arnold Palmer,” was featured on the Double Down Blog. She has combined her passions for music and poetry in her spoken word project, I Must Confess, available now at isthisliz.bandcamp.com.

03/03/2023

Our Winter Issue's flash fiction inites you to take the stairs with Chloe Yelena Miller's "Deep."
https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/deep/

01/03/2023

It's about time for some flash fiction gems from our Winter Issue. Let's move into Sacha Bissonnette's "The House Across the Street."
https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/the-house-across-the-street/

27/02/2023

What did you want to be when you grew up? Longing is Not Regret by Billie Hinton dives right in.
https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/longing-is-not-regret/

26/02/2023

Emily Lowe gets ekphrastic on "Underbelly" with Aaron Wilcox's sculpture of the same name.
https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/underbelly/

25/02/2023

Today we're homing in (and honing in) on Jennifer Todhunter's "When a House Is Not a Home" from our Winter Issue. Join us for both... or either!
https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/when-a-house-is-not-a-home/

23/02/2023

Ah, the challenge of scanning our minds for A Passed-Down Story that we're ready to share! Jenna Devany Waters knows the feeling.
https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/a-passed-down-story/

01/02/2023

It is here. As of February 1st, we will be open for submissions. Bring your short forms that shimmer.
https://citronreview.com

27/01/2023

Let's honor the work of these writers.
We've made our nominations for the Best Small Fictions.
https://citronreview.com/2022-best-small-fictions/

26/01/2023

The Citron Review will be accepting submissions February 1 for a very special mini issue devoted to love and desire.
https://citronreview.com
All submissions already in the queue will also be considered. And ALL previous contributors are encouraged to send work our way for this SPECIAL ISSUE, no matter how long ago (or short ago) we may have published your work.
This special issue will be published in early 2023.

26/01/2023

We had to celebrate our final poem of the Winter Issue with some sparklers. Find out why in Jak Emerson Kurdi's "My Grandmother's Eyes."
https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/my-grandmothers-eyes/

25/01/2023

Mark the calendars... or whatever it is we do with our digital doodads these days... As of February 1st, we will be open for submissions. Bring your short forms that shimmer.
https://citronreview.com/

24/01/2023

Poems can transform our life after life has passed on. "Flies and Moths" by Scott T. Hutchison takes us deep.
https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/flies-and-moths/

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Did you know? Every year, we nominate as many works from our pages as we can. Best Microfiction , The Pushcart Prize , Best of the Net Anthology , and The Best Small Fictions, we love you all. Dear readers, perhaps you have favorites from our latest issue that we should consider? https://citronreview.com/

Did you know? The Citron Review is just about to celebrate its 15th anniversary! (Stay tuned.) In the meantime, you might like to see how our Summer selections of Poetry take us boldly into the future. https://citronreview.com/

Have you heard? We'll be opening our Submissions on August 1st. In the meantime, we've just happen to have some Creative Nonfiction that's sure to inspire your new work! https://citronreview.com/

Our micros were whispering that they wanted to shout from the rooftops. Our Summer Issue is here! https://citronreview.com/

Our Winter Issue's flash fiction inites you to take the stairs with Chloe Yelena Miller's "Deep." https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/deep/

Don't let this flash fly by. There's even pie! Timothy Boudreau's Everything You Loved Is Here, When Are You Coming Home? is a tasty morsel from our Winter Issue. https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/everything-you-loved-is-here-when-are-you-coming-home/

It's about time for some flash fiction gems from our Winter Issue. Let's move into Sacha Bissonnette's "The House Across the Street." https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/the-house-across-the-street/

In our Winter Issue, the micros pack huge surprises. Don't miss microworks by: Ariel M. Goldenthal, DW McKinney, Mikki Aronoff, Christine H. Chen, Kelli Short Borges, & Reka Nyitrai. https://citronreview.com/

We can't help but return to Ronan Fenton's "The Prodigal Nothing," again and again. https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/the-prodigal-nothing/ #amreading #litmags

So happy two of our nominees Tommy Dean and Sabina Y. Wong will represent Citron in Best Microfiction 2023. Thanks to judge Deb Olin Unferth and wonderful series editors Meg Pokrass & Gary Fincke! Congratulations to all this year's selections! https://citronreview.com/2022-best-microfiction/

We had to celebrate our final poem of the Winter Issue with some sparklers. Find out why in Jak Emerson Kurdi's "My Grandmother's Eyes." https://citronreview.com/2022/12/22/my-grandmothers-eyes/

Creative Nonfiction from Christy Tending has made a delicious and dangerous impression on us. Caution: "It Explodes." https://citronreview.com/2022/09/23/it-explodes/ #amreading #litmags

Did you know that Mondays are better with brief literature? We heard that somewhere. Case in point, this little poem from Gunilla Theander Kester, "The Long and Short Vowels." https://citronreview.com/2022/06/22/the-long-and-the-short-vowels/

Did you know Mondays are better with short literature? Here's Bethany Jarmul's Flash CNF "Cloudy." https://citronreview.com/2022/06/22/cloudy/

Fresh flash from Kathryn Silver-Hajo. Sundays are better with short literature! Here's "Snake. Taos New Mexico." https://citronreview.com/2022/06/22/snake-taos-new-mexico/ #amreading #flashfiction

Look! We just found a golden shovel in our poetry toolshed and it belongs to Benjamin Truax. https://citronreview.com/2022/03/21/quadratic-end-a-golden-shovel/ Benjamin Truax is a writer and poet from Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his MFA in creative writing from @AmericanUniversity, in Washington, D.C., where he teaches writing.

This Winter Issue is full of brilliant micros. One stellar example is "The Proper Way to Peel an Orange" by Exodus Oktavia Brownlow. https://citronreview.com/2021/12/22/the-proper-way-to-peel-an-orange/ #amreading #litmags

Stephanie Grand allows us to look back at the classics, but the micro, "Why It Doesn't Hurt When You Say I've Changed" is anything but rooted in the past. Come walk the river with us. https://citronreview.com/2021/12/22/why-it-doesnt-hurt-when-you-say-ive-changed/ #amreading #litmags

Stephen D. Gibson's micro "Portrait of My Father upon his 70th Birthday" really lights up our Winter Issue. https://citronreview.com/2021/12/22/portrait-of-my-father-upon-his-70th-birthday/ #amreading #litmags