The Apple Valley Review
A Journal of Contemporary Literature
About the Journal
The Apple Valley Review is an international literary journal. Issues feature a collection of short fiction, poetry, personal essays, and translations. The journal was founded in 2005 by its current editor, Leah Browning, and is published semiannually.
From the Fall 2024 issue
“For a while it was amazing: people
became deer and deer became trees
and trees became libraries that turned
into greenhouses full of tulips on fire.”
— “Incandescent” by Susan Johnson
“I was once a small child living on the top
floor of a brutalist apartment building—
the top being the least desirable, thirteen
flights of stairs a part of the package.”
— “Birds in Captivity I” by Svetlana Litvinchuk
“Imagine, globes lit with a horseman’s torch,
streets of asphalt, a bolt of cotton
to sew into a dress, hot running water;
so save your glee for the pavilion, your feet
for high top shoes, fingers for spooling thread . . .”
— “Mother to Two Daughters, Ellis Island 1907” by Judith Harris
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The Fall 2024 issue of the Apple Valley Review features flash fiction by Mary Grimm; short stories by Franz Jørgen Neumann and Anna Gáspár-Singer (translated from the Hungarian by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess); a piece of creative nonfiction by Annabel Jankovic; and poetry by Judith Harris, Michael Diebert, Lulu Liu, Susan Johnson, Svetlana Litvinchuk, Zhang Zhihao (translated from the Mandarin by Yuemin He), Triin Paja, Susana H. Case, and Jeff Mock. The cover artwork is by Catalan painter Santiago Rusiñol.