Apple Valley Review

The Fall 2025 issue is online with fiction, poetry, CNF, and translations from Finnish, Bulgarian, Spanish, and Romanesco. Cover image by French photographer Jacques Dillies. applevalleyreview.org #fiction #story #poetry #literaryjournal #literarymagazine #litjournal #litmag

There's still a little time to send in your short memoirs/personal essays/creative nonfiction. Submissions for the Spring 2026 issue of the AVR are open through 3/15/26. Guidelines: applevalleyreview.org/submit #callforsubmissions #CNF #creativenonfiction #personalessays #memoir

Congratulations to Annabel Jankovic. "Ghost Story," her piece of CNF from the Apple Valley Review's Fall 2024 issue, was selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2025 (edited by Jia Tolentino and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman). harpercollins.com/products/the-b…

There were so many entries from the e-mail list that I decided to give away 2 copies instead. Earlier today, I mailed these books to the 2 people whose names were randomly selected. You may also want to purchase or borrow a copy of this book for yourself. Happy reading!

Fall 2025 was the 40th issue of the Apple Valley Review. I have been so grateful for the encouragement I've received over the past 20 years. As a gesture of thanks, I held a drawing for a copy of The Anthropologists, a meditative novel by Ayşegül Savaş (Bloomsbury USA, 2024).

Find your next favorite writer in our latest roundup of lit mags! Our October roundup features new issues from @AfterDinnerCon, @GAY_ALOCASIA, @ANMLY_LIT, @AppleValleyRev, @BaltimoreEditor, @BLReview, @ChestnutReview, and more: clmp.org/news/october-2…

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Nonfiction feat. @missouri_review @AppleValleyRev @undersunonline @offassignment @FiveMinuteLit @echoliterarymag @CosmicDaffodil et al. duotrope.com/search/smart/n…

Apple Valley Review Fall 2025 offers readers a new collection of international short stories with many works in translation available to read open-access online. Read more at NewPages! #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @AppleValleyRev newpages.com/blog/magazines…

Our #TranslationMonth reading list features @CincinnReview, @worldlittoday, @wwborders, @CircMag, @AppleValleyRev, @ANMLY_LIT, @LilithMagazine, @NERweb, @GeorgiaReview, @DigitusIndie, @TahomaReview & more lit mags! Read their works here: clmp.org/news/a-reading…

I did not grab anything candy, brush pen, hammer, or yuan notes I was told, on that afternoon they put me in a winnowing fan in the sun… —from Zhang Zhihao’s “Zhuazhou, or One-Year-Old Catch,” translated by Yuemin He in @AppleValleyRev #TranslationMonth applevalleyreview.org/fall-2024/zhan…

“I felt certain that near me was a portal through which a whole other kind of life, parallel to mine but much richer, was being conducted.” — “Saint Zinaida’s Day” (short story) by Peter Newall, Apple Valley Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2025). applevalleyreview.org/spring-2025/pe…

“Her employers showed her everything in the neighborhood, they even drove her to the hospital...” Anna Gáspár-Singer’s “Green Peas” (translated by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess in @AppleValleyRev) is on our #NationalTranslationMonth reading list: applevalleyreview.org/fall-2024/anna…

“On the highway they are more than cordial, sharing Marlboros, the radio.” — “Family Vacation” (poetry) by Mark Lilley, Apple Valley Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2025). applevalleyreview.org/spring-2025/ma…

Don’t forget to browse our #WITMonth reading list for translated works from @CircBooks, @anotherchimag, @TupeloQ, @LEspritLit, @NERweb, @JewishBook, @AdiMagazine, @WriteGirlLA, @SouthernHReview, @AppleValleyRev, @FenceBooks, @DeepVellum & more: clmp.org/news/a-reading…

There's still a little time to send in your short memoirs/personal essays/creative nonfiction. Submissions for the Fall 2025 issue of the AVR are open through 9/15/25. Guidelines: applevalleyreview.org/submit #callforsubmissions #CNF #creativenonfiction #personalessays #memoir

“Dad was upset with my choice. He wanted to get an Old Fashioned by a sparkling blue pool, he said, like that playboy Don Draper from the show Mad Men.” — “Fantastic Caverns!” (flash fic) by Luke Rolfes, Apple Valley Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2025). applevalleyreview.org/spring-2025/lu…

Congratulations to Mickie Kennedy, who was a finalist for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology three times over. His poem “A Good, Long Steep,” which originally appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of the Apple Valley Review, was one of the selections. bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-fi…

This reading list from CLMP for Women in Translation Month includes a link to three poems by Miriam Van hee—"words," "the courtyard," and "antwerp street"—translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson. The English translations were first published in our Spring 2025 issue.

The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Literary Short Stories feat. @AppleValleyRev et al. duotrope.com/search/smart/f…

@K_A_Polzin, @agsiegrist

The Wigleaf Top 50 2025 and the Longlist are now online! Congratulations to Mary Grimm ("Open the Door," AVR Fall 2024), and K. A. Polzin ("Sales," Spring 2024), both included in the Top 50. Andrew Siegrist ("Patchwork," Spring 2024) is on the Longlist. wigleaf.com/25top50main.htm