Fork Apple Press is a small independent literary press publishing work that expands beyond a core, essentialized “truth” to challenge a monolithic point of view.

Fork Apple Press consists of three prongs — The Core Review, The Juice Blog, and The Slice Contest — that bite into themes and symbols of desire, consumption, spirituality, gender, environment, cultivation, and wildness. Each prong offers a different outlet, yet the fork forms a collective discourse circulating around shared topics. We seek to embrace each work’s ability to introduce unique associations while standing in conversation with and juxtaposition against others. We're excited about pieces engaged with environmental justice, postcolonial feminism, queerness in all its humanizing and messy forms, and to support writers' expansion beyond these topics in ways that move them. 

Rather than reinforcing limitations through a preset symbology, we feel that the fork and apple represent how a concentrated meditation on a symbol can expand into an associative web, wherein multiplicity and intersectionality deepens understanding. Just as the inorganic fork stabs into the organic apple, we look for the unexpected in order to reconsider and challenge how our world, and the established tools we use to navigate through it, functions.

We deconstruct the narratives that have traditionally dominated literary spaces and conventions and are committed to work that writes toward a future beyond prejudice and limitations. We invite work that upends, restructures, and reformats the predetermined conversation through genre blurring, experimentation, multimodality, and authenticity. 

As editors, we prioritize accessibility in our literary space with free submissions whenever possible. We also aim to provide full online access to read and engage with The Core Review and The Juice Blog in the interest of maximizing reach to all members of our community. 

To expand the page of the traditional American literary landscape, Fork Apple Press folds voices that have been cast into the margin to the center of the conversation. We encourage writers from different identities, cultures, and backgrounds to submit. We work to build a community of writers and readers through prioritizing open and active engagement across our publications.