Fall 2025 was the fortieth issue of the Apple Valley Review. I have been so grateful for the support and encouragement I have received from contributors and readers from around the world over the past twenty years. 1/3

The new issue of Plumwood Mountain Journal, an Australian and international journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics, is available now.

Cover image: Kangaroo Grass by Jacob Yugovic

The new issue and more information: plumwoodmountain.com

The Fall 2025 issue of the Apple Valley Review features work by Jack Jenkins, Steph Sundermann-Zinger, Timo Teräsahjo, Ekaterina Kostova, Sohana Manzoor, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Daniel Southwell, Mario dell’Arco, Daniel Choe, Paul Dickey, DS Maolalai, Yi Li, P M F Johnson. Cover: Jacques Dillies.

“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” by Peter Newall, Apple Valley Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2025). Read the full short story: www.applevalleyreview.org/spring-2025/...

Congratulations to everyone on the Wigleaf Top 50! The list includes fiction by Mary Grimm ("Open the Door," Apple Valley Review, Fall 2024) and K. A. Polzin ("Sales," Spring 2024). Andrew Siegrist ("Patchwork," Spring 2024) is on the Longlist.

Find the lists here:
wigleaf.com/25top50main....

The Spring 2025 issue of the Apple Valley Review features writing by Madison Ellingsworth, Miriam Van hee, Peter Newall, Athena Kildegaard, Zehra Habib, Mark Lilley, Luke Rolfes, Mickie Kennedy, Tony Rauch, and David Armand. Cover artwork by John Singer Sargent.

www.applevalleyreview.org

The winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! Congratulations to Mary Grimm, whose story "Open the Door" (from the Fall 2024 issue of the Apple Valley Review) was one of two chosen by final judge Dawn Raffel to appear in the anthology.

For more: bestmicrofiction.com

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