The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal. It was founded in 2005 by its current editor, Leah Browning. (Cover image by Cynthia Tom)
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The Spring 2026 issue of the Apple Valley Review is now online with fiction, memoir, poetry, and a translation from Bengali. Cover photograph by Tim Mossholder.
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“Masses,” a short story by Mary Luna, was first published in the Apple Valley Review, Volume 21, Number 1 (Spring 2026). The full story is available on our website.
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When I started the Apple Valley Review, I was inspired by the quality and professionalism of many literary journals. Here are a few I admired and tried to emulate.
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Happy #LitMagWeek! We're joining a wide variety of other literary journals to celebrate.
Ours is the Apple Valley Review, an international literary journal founded in 2005 by Leah Browning. Issues feature short fiction, poetry, personal essays, and translations.
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August is #WomeninTranslationMonth! Celebrate with us by picking an online read (or several) from our reading list of works both written and translated by women, featuring @AdiMagazine, @ANMLY_LIT, @turkoslaviaco, @AppleValleyRev, and more lit mags: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…
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Sometimes the most powerful stories are the ones that quietly unravel our assumptions.
This week's Recommended Reading spotlights Wendy Elizabeth Wallace's "Help Is on the Way," a moving story about regret, self-deception, and the person we hope to become.
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: Narrative Nonfiction feat. @BlackWarriorRev @AppleValleyRev @blackfoxlit @undergumtree @Sky1sland @HooghlyReview @Brussels_Review @wildscapelit et al. duotrope.com/search/smart/no…
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As #APAHeritageMonth comes to a close, be sure to bookmark our reading list for year-round reading recommendations from @sho_journal, @haydensferryrev, @AppleValleyRev, @spaceandtimemag, @CincinnReview, @GAY_ALOCASIA, @halfmysticpress & more: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…
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Celebrate #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth with us! We’re picking our next reads from our 2026 reading list, which features indie publishers @SFWP, @DeepVellum, @RedHenPress, @epiphanylit, @ANMLY_LIT, @SouthernHReview, @catalyst_press, and more: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…
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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 applevalleyreview.org/fall-2…
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Don’t miss all the excellent new issues out from lit mags this month! Find @adroitjournal, @AfterDinnerCon, @AQReview, @GAY_ALOCASIA, @ANMLY_LIT, @AppleValleyRev, @ChestnutReview, @frozenseapoetry, and more lit mags in our April roundup: clmp.org/news/april-2026-rou…
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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).
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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 applevalleyreview.org/fall-2…
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
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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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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).
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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-2025-r…
