Citric Acid supports and promotes the work of existing literary magazines and community and institutional arts projects in Orange County, directing readers to authors and artists, institutions and initiatives often overlooked, serving as a platform for original writing as well as a clearinghouse and go-to community site of discourse and appreciation. It encourages the work of a vibrant community toward celebrating creativity. It means to alter and widen perceptions of the region through storytelling and cultural criticism, and to encourage a vigorous collective revisionist history practice promoting social justice, anti-racist, feminist and otherwise emancipatory politics. Citric Acid will booster the work of writers committed to a heartfelt and sincere, honest, and constructive assessment of both contemporary life in Orange County and the region’s past. Our masthead logo, created by writer and artist Garrett Saleen, celebrates this joyful struggle, in its both ironic and stubbornly exuberant reimagining of the mythic tale of Sisyphus laboring to push an orange, our totemic namesake, up a mountain.  

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Thanks to those currently serving on our Advisory Board, for their encouragement, direction and support:  Lisa Alvarez, Stephanie Brown, Mary Camarillo, Amy DePaul, Kurt Eggert, Felicity Figueroa, Grant Hier, Michelle Latiolais, Elaine Lewinnek, Nicholas Schou, Bethia Sheean-Wallace, Kareem Tayyar, Mitsuye Yamada, and Audra Eagle Yun.