wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/souvenirs-... Read Leah's short story "Year of the Rat" and learn more about her new collection, Souvenirs from Another Life. @leahbrowning.bsky.social

“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” in Apple Valley Review this #APAHeritageMonth! www.applevalleyreview.org/fall-2025/da...

Celebrate #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth with us! We’re picking our next reads from our 2026 reading list, which features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama published by indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Many thanks to Wild Roof Journal for featuring Souvenirs from Another Life on their Substack. This photograph, from the back cover of the paperback, is by Sarah Trummer. @wildroofjournal.bsky.social wildroofjournal.substack.com

I wish I had taken a photo of Belletrist 7 before I untied it. What a beautiful little book! I did my best to recreate how it looked when I opened the package, but photos aren't doing this justice. The issue—now available in a compact hardcover edition—focuses on the unseen, unsaid, undelivered.

Don’t miss all the excellent new issues out from lit mags this month! Find poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and more in our April roundup: www.clmp.org/news/april-2...

Issue 8 of Gramercy Review is live today! It's online now with new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and some especially vivid photographs.

Today's listing of the day is: The Apple Valley Review #WritingCommunity

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. #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @AppleValleyRev

The Spring 2026 issue of the Apple Valley Review has work by Julia Lisella, Mary Luna, Jackson Burgess, Joshua Tilton, Lisa Beech Hartz, John Minczeski, Wendy Elizabeth Wallace, Jon Acheson, Sambhunath Chattopadhyay, Kimmy Chang, Renee Emerson, Igor Monsellato, John Picard. Cover: Tim Mossholder.

Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, is available now!

“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). Photo credit: Aaron Burden Read the full Fall 2025 issue online: www.applevalleyreview.org/fall-2025/co...

“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,” Apple Valley Review #WomensHistoryMonth www.applevalleyreview.org/fall-2025/st...

'Souvenirs from Another Life' by Leah Browning is a debut collection of full-length literary fiction, flash, and linked stories that "delve into the reality and surreality of love, companionship, and family." #booknews #newreleases #fiction #readingcommunity @leahbrowning.bsky.social

Souvenirs from Another Life, a collection of stories, is now available in trade paperback, as an e-book, and as an unabridged audiobook narrated by the wonderfully talented Mallory Fuccella. More information, including a sample and a discussion guide for readers: www.leahbrowninglit.com/souvenirs

Romantic pressure systems are likely to develop in the coming weeks and residents are encouraged to remain calm, plan ahead, and avoid unnecessary exposure.

Winter love from Passages North. ❤️ @passagesnorth.bsky.social www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

The dreams were intense this year. medium.com/the-haven/at... #humor #weddings #romance #love #dreams

The light is on for Leah Browning! @leahbrowning.bsky.social 💡 “Late May, Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara” is a perfectly spare and sensual poem that’ll bring some warmth to these cold winter days. Check out Leah’s wonderful writing over at the site!

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). www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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.

Vestal Review turned 25 this year! Thank you to all the writers, readers, and editors who have made the magazine a success in the last quarter century. Read us online at vestalreview.net!

“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/...

CLMP's reading list for National Translation Month includes links to three poems by Zhang Zhihao and to "Green Peas," a short story by Anna Gáspár-Singer. The English translations were first published in the Fall 2024 issue of the Apple Valley Review. Find more books, poems, and prose on this list:

On the Dance Floor by Leah Browning (image c/o blogs.bridals.pk) At dinner one night, listening to his girlfriend ramble endlessly about some reality show nonsense, not even bothering to swallow a mouthful of food before she went on about this drivel, he made the decision, as he had many times…

There's still some time to send in your short memoirs, personal essays, and/or creative nonfiction. Flash, micro, and full-length pieces are OK (max ~4,000 words). Submissions for the Fall 2025 issue of the Apple Valley Review are open through 9/15/25. Guidelines: applevalleyreview.org/submit

An Excerpt from “On the Dance Floor” by Leah Browning NEW FICTION That night in bed, when she placed one leg over his and began sliding her palm over his chest, he put his hand over hers and rose a little, giving her a decisive peck on the cheek before turning over with his back to her and making…

Congratulations to Mickie Kennedy, who was a finalist for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology three times over. His poem “A Good, Long Steep,” which originally appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of the Apple Valley Review, was one of those three selections. bestofthenetanthology.com

This reading list from CLMP for Women in Translation Month includes a link to three poems by Miriam Van hee—"words," "the courtyard," and "antwerp street"—translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson. The English translations were first published in the Spring 2025 issue of the Apple Valley Review.

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....

How to handle a drunk mom, take 2. Read "Just a Few Drinks," by Leah Browning. @leahbrowning.bsky.social vestalreview.net/just-a-few-drinks

Issue 66 of Vestal Review comes out just after the summer solstice, when the days start growing shorter, though as any flash fiction aficionado knows, brevity isn’t always a bad thing. Read now at vestalreview.net/issue-66. +

This reading list from CLMP includes a short excerpt from "Mom could have been a dancer," a poem by Lulu Liu from the Fall 2024 issue of the Apple Valley Review, with links to this and many other suggestions in honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.

Congratulations to the CLMP members publishing new issues this month! Spend some time this week reading new works from Adroit Journal, AGNI, Baffling Magazine, Chestnut Review, Ploughshares, and more lit mags:

Today's listing of the day is: The Apple Valley Review #WritingCommunity

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 @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social

Dear friends, the winners of Best Microfiction 2025 are live! A huge thanks to 2025 judge Dawn Raffel! BM 2025 will be released in the Spring! If you're on this list, expect an email and contract from us in the next 2 weeks. www.bestmicrofiction.com? #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcommunity

I have lost other plants in the past, but I feel good about this one. The following summer, we marry in a small ceremony on the beach. Love! @leahbrowning.bsky.social @passagesnorth.bsky.social

"Books that amplify the voices of women from diverse backgrounds contribute to a more nuanced understanding of women’s experiences." Delighted to see this article about Betty, WTAW’s imprint, by Elizabeth Casillas at Alta Journal. #bettybooks #womenwriters #smallpress

Betty, an imprint of WTAW dedicated to publishing books by women for everyone, opens the door for submissions tomorrow December 1! Find the guidelines and learn all the details at www.wtawpress.org/betty