The Apple Valley Review

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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The Apple Valley Review is an international online literary journal publishing poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction with a literary focus, reading submissions year-round with no fees or payment.

Response time info: within approximately three weeks (up to two months)

Read the full guidelines at applevalleyreview.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryPays: No payment; work considered for annual Editor’s Prize ($100 and a book, 2006-2025).

Submit one unpublished short story up to approximately 4,000 words; no true genre fiction (e.g., horror, science fiction, mysteries), but literary work with genre elements (fabulism, magical realism) is welcome; novel excerpts must be self-contained; translations welcome if permission granted.

flashLiteraryPays: No payment; work considered for annual Editor’s Prize ($100 and a book, 2006-2025).

Submit up to three unpublished flash fiction pieces (up to 1,000 words each), or up to six microfiction/linked stories (4,000 words total); no true genre fiction, but literary work with genre elements (fabulism, magical realism) is welcome; translations welcome if permission granted.

nonfictionLiteraryPays: No payment; work considered for annual Editor’s Prize ($100 and a book, 2006-2025).

Submit one unpublished personal essay/creative nonfiction piece (1,000–4,000 words), or multiple flash essays/short nonfiction (up to 4,000 words total); no scholarly, critical, inspirational, or journalistic work; translations welcome if permission granted.

poetryLiteraryPays: No payment; work considered for annual Editor’s Prize ($100 and a book, 2006-2025).

Submit up to six unpublished poems at a time; preference for short (under two pages), non-rhyming poetry; translations welcome if permission granted.

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