Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

  1. Downtown

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Louis Bourgeois   Downtown Hanoi                              …
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  2. Peach

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Chelsey Clammer   There, south of the half-moon sliver of a fingernail. My sight pools on the blood drooling …
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  3. Cafe Society

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Nick Sweet   ´Wht ws the lecture bout?´ ‘It´s concerned wid the taxonomy of taxophily n Pope´s work.´ ´Did …
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  4. First Contact at Dog Point

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Vivian Faith Prescott   All of us Lingít language participants line up our wares on plywood boards and makeshift …
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  5. We Search for Ghosts Even Where We Know We Cannot Find Them

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Kirsten Clodfelter   My father calls me a woman now, a burden I must have somehow inherited from you. …
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  6. Neighborhood Watch

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Ray Shea   A dead hummingbird lay in the road like a broken Christmas ornament, lustrous green wings against …
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  7. What I Look for in a CNF Submission

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    October 31, 2011 by The Citron Review

    Wit, creepiness and awkward intimacy. I love memoir that contains emotional risk like Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir Chronology of Water and …
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  8. How to Survive the New York Asshole

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    March 16, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Rachel Hurn   Move to New York. New York is where assholes live and where non-assholes go to become …
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  9. Losing Them

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    March 16, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by Talya Jankovits   I lost track of how many of them I lost before I conceived her in a …
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  10. Hallelujah

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    September 14, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Gina Corso   It will be an explosively sunny day, music cranked so loud the speakers will vibrate. The …
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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025