Issue 30 | Spring 2024
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Issue 29 | Fall 2023
Issue 29 features flirty game wardens, nuns in a cavern, mysterious transmissions, the world’s youngest knife thrower, the names of Argentina’s rivers, streams, and lakes, the fountain of youth, gray dawns, and ferocious appetites. It’s about war, lies and misinformation, languages and language, erasures, brutal occupations, bad reasons for enlisting, and signs that refract so deeply we can’t trace their path back to the world. It’s about sinister radio signals from the fillings in your teeth or maybe over there among the trees.
Includes new work by James Nulick, Mary Burger, Denis Tricoche, Yuliia Iliukha and Hanna Leliv, John Gu, Iliana Vargas, Lena Greenberg, and Michelle Mirabella, Kelly Krumrie, Juan José Saer and Will Noah, Afsana Begum and Rifat Munim, Michael Loyd Gray, William M. McIntosh, Laura Zapico, Stella Vinitchi Radulescu and Domnica Radulescu, Skye Gilkerson, Adam Day, Ariana Den Bleyker, Justin Vicari, Rebecca Macijeski, Cletus Crow, and Ayshia Müezzin.
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Issue 28 | Spring 2023
Issue 28 explores the politics of domesticity, the confusion of desire, and dreams of mysterious strangers, flying over borders, and living under a seat in an abandoned movie theater like a desperate, hunched troll. All that, plus tropical maladies, suicidal impulses, sexual obsession, decaying memories, stolen trucks, honking cars, creepy houses, electric crickets, humiliation, and writers who die too young. It’s a vulnerable issue — truthful and deluded.
Featuring new short fiction, poetry, CNF, translations, and art from Cástulo Aceves (translated by Michael Langdon), Victoria Ballesteros, Nikki Barnhart, Sophie Bebeau, Israel Bonilla, Ellis Elliott, Vilde Fastvold (translated by Wendy H. Gabrielsen), Bo Huston, J.G. Jesman, Marream Krollos, Edward Lee, Marina Mariasch (translated by Ellen Jones), Blue Neustifter, Evan Nicholls, Dale Peck, Matthew Roberson, Evan Williams, and David Wojciechowski.
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Issue 27 | Fall 2022
Issue twenty-seven invites you to attend a chimeric gathering of wanders, misfits, rebels, playboys, and survivors.
Featuring new short fiction, poetry, CNF, translations, and art from Robert Glück, Julia Kohli (translated by Rob Myatt), Jasleena Grewal, Solomon Samson, Dominic Blewett, Laurie Stone, Stacey Levine, Nina Schuyler, James Warner, Carla Bessa (translated by Elton Uliana), Alvin Lu, Lorelei Bacht, Beatriz Rocha (translated by Grant Schutzman), Réka Nyitrai, David C. Hall, Rolla Barraq (translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp), Eva-Maria Sher, Cameron Morse, and Richard Hanus.
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Issue 26 | Spring 2022
Our twenty-sixth issue is haunted, alcohol-soaked, possibly delusional, bathed in moonlight, wandering through forests and caverns, and inflamed by all-manner of approaching catastrophes.
Featuring new short fiction, poetry, CNF, and translations from Alberto Ortiz De Zarate (translated by Whitni Battle), Darlene Eliot, Nara Vidal (translated by Emyr Humphreys), Luna Sicat-Cleto (translated by Bernard Capinpin), Suzana Stojanović, Siamak Vossoughi, Marshall Moore, Farhad Pirbal (translated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and Jiyar Homer), James Miller, Michele Kilmer, Olga Krause (translated by Grace Sewell), John Rey Dave Aquino, John M. Kuhlman, Michael Garcia Bertrand, Benjamin Niespodziany, Lisa Williams, Anna B. Sutton, Sharron Hass (translated by Marcela Sulak), and Steve Davenport. Cover art by Zee Zee.
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Issue 25 | Fall 2021
Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.
Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Robert Lopez, Shin Yu Pai, Brian Henry, Daryll Delgado, Linda Morales Caballero and Marko Miletich, PhD, Caroline Fernelius, Emilee Prado, Robert(a) Ruisza Marshall, Khalil AbuSharekh, Mercury-Marvin Sunderland, Gillian Parrish, Steve Bargdill, Diti Ronen and Joanna Chen, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Kevin McIlvoy, Adhimas Prasetyo and Liswindio Apendicaesar, and Tamiko Dooley. Cover art by Despy Boutris.
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Issue 24 | Spring 2021
Spring is here and so is a new issue of Your Impossible Voice! For our twenty-fourth issue, we have daring new work from Jesus Quintero, Bri Stoever, Rebeca Abidail Flores, Curt Saltzman, Doina Ruști (translated by Ileana Marin) Max Blue, Isabella Rae Barrengos, Nadia Villafuerte (translated by Pennell Somsen), Monica Macansantos, Gabriela Ruivo Trindade (translated by Andrew McDougall), Kathleen Bryson, Edward Smallfield, Kristin Fogdall, Valerie Coulton, and Peter Grandbois. Cover art by Matthew Felix Sun.
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Issue 23 | Fall 2020
Issue 23 of Your Impossible Voice features work by Casey Plett, Masha Tupitsyn, Jorge Largo (translated by David Pegg), Alexia Nader, Deven James Philbrick, Luciano Funetta (translated by Scott Belluz), Hwang Jungeun (translated by Mirae Yang), Dan A. Cardoza, Kelly Krumrie, Julieta García González (translated by Toshiya Kamei), Mialise Carney, John Better Armella (translated by Michelle Mirabella), Chuck Mobley, Kenny Williams, Steven Seidenberg, Genevieve Kaplan, gigi bella, Maggie Blake Bailey, Charlotte Pence, and alyssa hanna. Cover art by Joe Lugara.
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Issue 22 | Winter 2020
Dive into Your Impossible Voice #22 and discover new work by Marream Krollos, Cidinha da Silva (translated by Ana Luiza de Oliveira e Silva and Daniel Persia), Renée Ashley, Xurxo Borrazás (translated by Jacob Rogers), Erin Slaughter, Ascher/Straus, Jonathan Jones, Berna Durmaz (translated by Dayla Rogers), Alan Chazaro , Andrea Abi-Karam, Cástulo Aceves (translated by Michael Langdon), Leanne Grabel, Melanie Figg, Margherita Arco, Megin Jimenez, Eddie P. Gomez, and Kyle Lung. Cover art by Tara Barr.
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Issue 21 | Fall 2019
Issue 21 features work by Ty Hall, D-L Alvarez, Rachel Nagelberg, Clara Ronderos (translated by Mary G. Berg), Sabahattan Ali (translated by Daniel Koehler), Mannika Mishra, Joelle Lambert, Lydia Armstrong, Evelyn Martinez, Ivan Jozic (translated by Marta Huber), Karla Marrufo (translated by Allison A. deFreese), Zachary Schomburg, Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou (translated by Siavash Saadlou), and Larry D. Thacker. Cover art by Jaime Cortez.
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Issue 20 | Summer 2019
Issue 20 features work by Luisa Valenzuela (translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz), Alvin Lu, J. Weintraub, Jessica Love, Keith Carver, Karen An-hwei Lee, Christopher Clubb, Mike Dressel, Jorge Enrique Botero (translated by David Feller Pegg), Talal Alyan, Carl-Christian Elze (translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul), Bijan Najdi (translated by Parisa Saranj), and Amy Forstadt. Cover art by Jerry Seguin.
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Issue 19 | Winter 2019
Issue 19 includes work by Jesse Falzoi, Miguel Gardel, Fradl Shtok (translated by Jordan Finkin and Allison Schachter), Anu Kandikuppa, Daniel Uncapher, L.I. Sargis, Stefan Kiesbye, J S Khan, Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, Harford Hopson, Elvira Vigna (translated by Adrian Minckley) Luis Miguel Rivas Granada (translated by David Feller Pegg), Karin Wraley Barbee, Dennis Vannatta, Nadija Rebronja (translated by Ivana Maksić) Jared Pearce, Thomas Griffin, Stella Díaz Varín (translated by Rebecca Levi), and Kathleen Hellen. Cover art by Mary Burger.
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Issue 18 | Fall 2018
Issue 18 features work by Joanna Ruocco, Miguel Barnet (translated by George Henson), Ricardo Piglia (translated by Robert Croll), Lise Gauvin (translated by Aliya Esmail), Dia Felix, Brooks Sterritt, Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada, Molly Yingling, Silver Damsen, Rob McClure Smith, Amitai ben-Abba, July Westhale, Martina Reisz, Thomas March, Adam Clay, Elizabeth Spires, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Cover art by Sean Casey.
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Issue 17 | Spring 2018
Issue 17 features work by Laurie Stone, John Better Armella (translated by George Bert Henson), Elisabeth Sheffield, M.C. Zendejas, Stephanie Dickinson, Miriam Karpilov (translated by Jessica Kirzane), Nicole Mestre, Ihsan Abdel Quddous (translated by Nabeel M. Yaseen), Michael Agugom, Jason Hamilton, Curt Saltzman, Jillian McManemin, Bob Elmendorf, Geraldine Connolly, Diego Valeri (translated by Laura Valeri), Alex Rieser, Ulrike Almut Sandig (translated by Jari Niesner), Lily Hoang, and Zach Wyner. Cover art by Jonathan Hammer
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Issue 16 | Winter 2018
Featuring work by Clemens J. Setz (translated by Susan Thorne), Sara Kachelman, James Warner, Tahseen Béa, Dan Morey, Daniel Rivas, Jasper Henderson, Luise Maier (translated by Frances Jackson), Justice McPherson, Dahna Cohen-Schwartz, James Kramer, Karla Reimert (translated by Patty Nash), Marina Massenz, (translated by Johanna Bishop), Iacyr Anderson Freitas (translated by Desirée Jung), Luisa A. Igloria, Rey-Philip Genaldo, and Dallas Woodburn. Cover art by Mattina Blue.
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Issue 15 | Fall 2017
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Issue 14 | Spring 2017
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Issue 13 | Winter 2017
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Issue 12 | Fall 2016
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Issue 11 | Summer 2016
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Issue 10 | Winter 2016
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Issue 9 | Fall 2015
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Issue 8 | Summer 2015
Our Summer 2015 issue offers a look at the sex lives of amputees, androids, dwarves, and people in animal costumes. All of this, reflections on art, the pleadings of a figurine, amazing new poetry, and more. Contributors appearing in the issue include: Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman), Lisa Locascio, Lana Spendl, Jean Wyllys (translated by John Keene), Rob McClure Smith, Jessica Barksdale, and more.
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Issue 7 | Spring 2015
Our first issue of 2015 is a veritable international soirée! “Off-Season With Snake” chronicles writer Xu Xi’s return to Hong Kong to care for her aging mother. Raymund P. Reyes’s “Asian Goddess” introduces us to Jameel, a Filipino hustler applying his trade in Saudi Arabia. In Zdravka Evtimova’s “Distinction,” we visit Bulgaria and an epic cart race with love and brandy hanging in the balance. All this and more.
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Issue 6 | Winter 2014
The winter issue of Your Impossible Voice has arrived, featuring new work from Misty Ellingburg, Aysegul Savas, Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon, Álvaro Enrigue, Suzanne Heagy, Michael Pritchett, Carlos Labbé, Elizabeth Savage, Chad Hanson, Madeline Vardell, Colin Dodds, Amy Woschek Schmidt, Brian McCarty, Erik Anderson, Johnathan Harper, Phyllis Brotherton, and E.J. Evans. In addition to the amazing prose and poetry you’ve come to expect, our latest issue also includes an excerpt from a new graphic novel by Heinz Fenkl and The’ T. Nguyen. Cover art for issue 6 by Louis Staeble.
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Issue 5 | Fall 2014
The fall issue of Your Impossible Voice is here with incredible new work from Aaron Shurin, Eugene Lim, Kathleen Jesme, Mary Carroll-Hackett, Fernando Vallejo (translated by Laia García Sánchez and Robert Jackson), Kyle Hemmings, Daniel J. Pizappi, and more.
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Issue 4 | Summer 2014
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Issue 3 | Spring 2014
Your Impossible Voice #3 features new work from award-winning Cuban writer, editor, and screenwriter Francisco García González, novelist and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Susan Daitch, writer, poet, and filmmaker Lonely Christopher, and Gilberto Owen National Prize winner Vivian Abenshushan, and more.
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Issue 2 | Winter 2013
Your Impossible Voice #2 features new work from New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Thaddeus Rutkowski, multiple Best American Poetry contributor Arielle Greenberg, MacArthur Fellow and Berlin Prize winner Han Ong, Bay Area favorites Lewis Buzbee and Mary Burger, 2013 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award winner Will Alexander, and more