Fork Apple Press

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Issue 1 | Fall 2024

The Core Review

The inaugural issue of our biannual literary journal is now live!

Available wherever books are sold.

ISBN:979-8-3305-7198-7

Submit to The Core

Now accepting submissions to Issue 2 of The Core Review.

Submissions close March 31, 2025 at midnight.

Who We Are

Fork Apple Press is a small, independent press dedicated to serving the literary community. Our literary journal, The Core Review, biannually publishes works of poetry, prose, and visual narrative. Our poetry chapbook and short story collection contest, The Slice Contest, annually selects one winning chapbook and collection for publication. For craft essays, book reviews, and further engagement with the literary world, check out our blog, The Juice Blog!

Biannual literary journal. Fall & Spring.

The Core Review

The Slice Contest

Poetry chapbook & short story collection. Winter & Summer. 

Essays, book reviews, interviews & more. Online year-round. 

The Juice Blog

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We’ve got one month left to submit your chapbooks to The Slice Chapbook Contest! We’re looking for both emerging and established writers who are excited to publish their poetry manuscripts. Read more at the link in our bio. #theslicechap
Congratulations to our 2024 Pushcart Nominees! Read their work and all of our amazing contributors online now at The Core Review.
Our first issue is LIVE! Thank you so much to all our inspired contributors; we are so excited to share this issue with you all! You can read the whole issue online now, and look out for an announcement soon about purchasing a print copy! Link in our
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Take today to celebrate Black voices in the poetry community! We want to highlight a quote from Nikky Finney, who shares, "My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away." #blackpoetryday #blackwriters #poetry #forkapplepr