The Citron Review is proud to announce our nominations for the third edition of Best Microfiction (Pelekinesis Press). This anthology series asks writers to tell our best stories in 400 words or less. It is co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O’Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke. Tania Hershman is this year’s judge.

We nominate excellent micros every year and we were so happy to see Christopher Gaumer’s “He Died We Left Him Til Morning” was published in Best Microfiction 2019 and Samantha Steiner’s, “My Closet” was in Best Microfiction 2021.

Each of the following unique pieces was first published in The Citron Review during the past calendar year. We proudly present The Citron Review’s 2021 nominations for Best Microfiction 2022.

THE NOMINEES

*ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION*
Star Su, “Freezing Point”
Originally published in the Spring 2021 issue

*ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION*
Kristen Zory King, “Her Kingdom Come”
Originally published in the Summer 2021 issue

Will Cordeiro, “Ebbtide and Floodtide”
Originally published in the Summer 2021 issue

*ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION*
Michelle Morouse, “Left to their own devices, they became them”
Originally published in the Summer 2021 issue

Juno Elio Avillez do Nascimento, “You Told Me I Ruined Six Flags for you and Honestly I Hope I Did”
Originally published in the Fall 2021 issue

Sudha Balagopal, “Frozen Biryani”
Originally published in the Fall 2021 issue