The Citron Review is pleased to announce our nominations for this year’s Best of The Net Anthology. All of these pieces appeared in issues of The Citron Review between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026.

THE NOMINEES

Fiction

Nominated by JR Walsh

Christina Tudor, “Ghost Girl Delivery”

Trista Hurley-Waxali, “Told like Scripture”

Creative Nonfiction

Nominated by Ronit Plank

Erin Wood, “Blind Curves”

Jodi Plaia, “Do you Remember Being Eight?”

Poetry

Nominated by Angela M. Brommel

Hunt Sanders, “Hail Season”

Steven O. Young, Jr, “Pick Me”

Tiffany Promise, “When Rust is Under Us We Curse the Sky”

Spencer Silverthorne, “Reading ‘Ave Maria’ by Frank O’Hara the Day After His Birthday”

Peter Chui, “What Clouds Have Said”

Karl Michael Iglesias, “A Poem Not About Me”