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 2026 issue
“The warm seafood, baked pike in cream sauce
served with chilled chardonnay, now room
temperature, still my favorite. I noticed the three
glasses with lipstick around the rim were as empty
as if licked clean, which they might have been. Not
a drop for the young dishwasher.”
—“I Learned to Drink by Doing the Dishes” by Gunilla T. Kester
“the eighteen volumes of The Moths of Borneo
I’d found between grumbling ventilators
in the back of a field station
the writer who’d laboured over it for twenty years
only discussed the macro-moths
I think of everything smaller than two centimetres
that flies across the fields at dusk”
—“Song for a Lavender Moth” by Anne Broeksma
“Our glasses of cognac were still on the table with an ashtray we hadn’t used.
The street was wet, perhaps it was getting dark,
but a little sun shone through a window, a white-curtained window,
and behind it, a lamp glowed.”
—“Sobremesa” by Graciela Reyes
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The Fall 2026 issue of the Apple Valley Review features poetry by Graciela Reyes (translated from the Spanish by Jackie K. White), Rocío Cerón (translated from the Spanish by Dana Delibovi), Anne Broeksma (translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson), Gunilla T. Kester, Irina-Roxana Georgescu (translated from the French by Clara Burghelea), Ryan Di Francesco, and Gustavo Pérez Firmat; a prose poem by Justin Hollis; a piece of flash fiction by Elana Marcus; short stories by Joseph Voth and Vincent E. Monroe; and nonfiction by Susan Johnson, Diane Comer, and Lilia Mahfouz (translated from the French by the author). The cover painting is by Belgian artist James Ensor.