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 2025 issue
“Tomorrow, it’s going to be a hundred degrees
below zero. I ask my father to repeat himself,
assuming he’s confused.”
— “Poem Beginning with a Forecast” by Steph Sundermann-Zinger
“You said you were teaching, I’m not sure
what, something odd, Cultural Theory
perhaps, and that it made you happy to explain
to your students all things human and divine.”
— “Brief Encounter” by Luis Alberto de Cuenca
“She worked in quality control for a call center. When the message said Your call may be monitored, it was her doing the monitoring.”
— “Pray for Us Sinners” by Daniel Southwell
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The Fall 2025 issue of the Apple Valley Review features short stories by Jack Jenkins, Timo Teräsahjo (translated from the Finnish by the author), Sohana Manzoor, Daniel Southwell, and Daniel Choe; poetry by Steph Sundermann-Zinger, Ekaterina Kostova (translated from the Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova), Luis Alberto de Cuenca (translated from the Spanish by Gustavo Pérez Firmat), Mario dell’Arco (translated from the Romanesco by Marc Alan Di Martino), DS Maolalai, and P M F Johnson; a prose poem by Paul Dickey; and a piece of creative nonfiction by Yi Li. The cover image is by French photographer Jacques Dillies.