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 https://t.co/rhzvY7GJUl!

"Jungle—the travel company where [Yona] worked as a programming coordinator—didn't currently offer any travel packages to visit the post-tsunami rubble [in Jinhae], but it would soon." —The Disaster Tourist, a novel by Yun Ko-eun. https://t.co/DqMwR8vbGY @CounterpointLLC

I did not grab anything candy, brush pen, hammer, or yuan notes I was told, on that afternoon they put me in a winnowing fan in the sun… —from Zhang Zhihao’s “Zhuazhou, or One-Year-Old Catch,” translated by Yuemin He in @AppleValleyRev #TranslationMonth

"My mother hired two sophomores to house-sit for the time [my parents] would be out of the country. As I came with the house, these two college boys were obliged to take care of me, too." —"When in the Dordogne" by Lily King, first in @onestorymag, from Five Tuesdays in Winter.

“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” (short story) by Peter Newall, Apple Valley Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2025). https://t.co/XTXIq1HZhF

“Her employers showed her everything in the neighborhood, they even drove her to the hospital...” Anna Gáspár-Singer’s “Green Peas” (translated by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess in @AppleValleyRev) is on our #NationalTranslationMonth reading list:

Celebrate #NationalTranslationMonth with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list, which features @worldpoetrybook @FourWayBooks @GreenLinden1 @tracepress @arrowsmithpress @uglyducklingprs @triohousepress @BlackOceanOrg & more indie publishers:

“Night here in the valley spreads out its vigil, night of one place following after another.” —“Faithful Animal,” one of six poems by Małgorzata Lebda from her book Mer de Glace, translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal (New England Review). https://t.co/9fo2j5sQ4t

"I saw a flicker of surprise cross [the host's] features as a I pointed [at the young man seated at the back of the restaurant]. He looked quickly from my face to my coat to my jewelry." —Audition by Katie Kitamura. https://t.co/MrODrnhYQf @riverheadbooks #novels #theatre

“On the highway they are more than cordial, sharing Marlboros, the radio.” — “Family Vacation” (poetry) by Mark Lilley, Apple Valley Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2025). https://t.co/IZavmppyC2

Don’t forget to browse our #WITMonth reading list for translated works from @CircBooks, @anotherchimag, @TupeloQ, @LEspritLit, @NERweb, @JewishBook, @AdiMagazine, @WriteGirlLA, @SouthernHReview, @AppleValleyRev, @FenceBooks, @DeepVellum & more:

"[Besides] bedsheets and a pillow, the only thing I bought for the room was a desk lamp . . . When my mom called me on Skype from our apartment on the outskirts of Natal, that's what she saw." —Blue Light Hours by Bruna Dantas Lobato. https://t.co/376S06W8IG @groveatlantic

Our new feature short story by Leah Browning, one of the best talents out there, is now live at our site. Check it out! https://t.co/Xk3Wnqr9mp #fiction #writing #writers

“Dad was upset with my choice. He wanted to get an Old Fashioned by a sparkling blue pool, he said, like that playboy Don Draper from the show Mad Men.” — “Fantastic Caverns!” (flash fic) by Luke Rolfes, Apple Valley Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2025). https://t.co/n1DPUcRRF8

"Louisa and her father are making their way down the breakwater, each careful step on the heaved granite blocks one step farther from shore." —From Flashlight, a novel by Susan Choi (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025). https://t.co/WsJq3afl1D @fsgbooks #novels #fiction

The 2025 Best of the Net Anthology is now available! Thank you to our judges Ben Tanzer, Ruben Quesada, and Jen Soriano, and all the journals who nominated work for this issue. You can find the selections and more at https://t.co/f2sSdYXuMj. We hope you enjoy!

A quick preview of our next feature short story by Leah Browning. We search for the best new writers out there. https://t.co/FeFpeYwj4g #fiction #menandwomen #relationships

The CLMP reading list for Women in Translation Month includes a link to 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 @AppleValleyRev.

"We do these things every day, . . . But today it's different . . . because I know the white army stares at me." —The Tokyo Suite, a novel by Giovana Madalosso, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato. https://t.co/pnoG9oj3Qz @EuropaEditions #novels #literaryfiction #portuguese