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The 2025 Slice Short Story Collection Contest is open for Submissions!

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The 2025 Slice Short Story Collection Contest is open for Submissions! *

We want to read your short fiction collections! The winner will receive an award of $500, 10 author copies, and 25% profits on book sales.

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!

I wake up tangled in pillows and sheets by Alex Baskin I wake up tangled in pillows and sheets by Alex Baskin
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I wake up tangled in pillows and sheets by Alex Baskin
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Fork Apple Press is honored to publish Alex Baskin's I wake up tangled in pillows and sheets as the winner of The Slice Poetry Chapbook Contest (2025).

ISBN 979-8-9925064-0-2

The Core Review, Issue 1 (Fall 2024) The Core Review, Issue 1 (Fall 2024)
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The Core Review, Issue 1 (Fall 2024)
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The Core Review Issue 1, Fall 2024, is the inaugural issue of Fork Apple Press' biannual literary journal.

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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This month, we're excited to feature a craft essay by A.E. Abitz on our blog, The Juice. In "Window to the Self: Excavating Identity in Contemporary Poetry," Abitz explores how the identity features in the contemporary poetry Collection in
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Grab a copy of Alex Baskin's recently published poetry chapbook, "I wake up tangled in pillows and sheets," now available on the Fork Apple Press Bookstore! 🔗 forkapplepress.org/bookstore Baskin's chapbook grapples with identity, queernes
Our first ever Slice contest winner, I wake up tangled in pillows and sheets by Alex Baskin @alex.baskin is officially launched and available for purchase on our online bookstore. Much congratulations and gratitude to Alex Baskin, the author of this