The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal. It was founded in 2005 by its current editor, Leah Browning.
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“After midnight, the patrol called my dad and reported a sighting on the roof of his restaurant. Dad asked if I wanted to come, to hurry up if I did.”
Read Daniel Choe’s story “Gestas and Dismas” this #APAHeritageMonth! @AppleValleyRev https://t.co/BEybnimDtm
Apple Valley Review Spring 2026 issue is fresh online for readers to enjoy new short stories, personal essays, poetry, and translations with cover photo by Tim Mossholder.
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“Tomorrow, it’s going to be a hundred degrees / below zero.”
— “Poem Beginning with a Forecast” by Steph Sundermann-Zinger, Apple Valley Review, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Fall 2025).
Photo credit: Aaron Burden
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“You know how it is. You go in hopeful,
focused, needing only the things
you’ve written down—”
—Steph Sundermann-Zinger in “Ars Poetica at Wegmans” @AppleValleyRev#WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/kMZdsKn9U4
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: https://t.co/NMJWTbjdPD
#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).
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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).
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!
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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 https://t.co/XPmVbXx6ey
“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).
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