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
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!
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Our micros were whispering that they wanted to shout from the rooftops. Our Summer Issue is here!
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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/
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.
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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
Our mini issue is LOVE & DESIRE.
https://citronreview.com/the-love-and-desire-issue/
Featured work by: Charles Byrne | Wendy Taylor Carlisle | Sheree La Puma | Ion Corcos | K Dulai | Ivan Hobson | Erica Vital-Lazare | Shana Graham | Sally Simon | RL Farr | Sophie Ezzell | Kathryn Silver-Hajo | Kayla Rutledge | Barun Saha
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.
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/
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.
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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