In Demons of Eminence a young traveling ICU nurse and self-described “cumdump” observes and sanctifies the friendship between an aging gay porn star and a goth chola dropout half his age, one that leads to them throwing endless parties in the industrial scrublands of SoCal’s Inland Empire at the height of the pandemic.
Your Impossible Voice is pleased to nominated the follow works for Best of the Net 2025!
PARTS is found poetry on a new level, constructed on hardcopy with acrylics, collage, and ink, then digitized with respect to the raw paper detail. Available now from Full Mood Mag.
I Don’t Understand Why It’s Crazy to Hear The Beautiful Songs of Nonexistent Birds is available Available August 27, 2024 from Unsolicited Press
YIV is proud to nominate the following works for the Best Literary Translation 2025 anthology.
Award seasons continues! The Your Impossible Voice is happy to nominate the following works for the 2024 Best Small Fictions.
Your Impossible Voice is delighted to nominate the following works for Best Microfiction 2024!
Your Impossible Voice is pleased to announce the following nominations for 2024 Pushcart Prizes from issues 28 and 29.
Your Impossible Voice is pleased to nominate the following extraordinary works for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net anthology.
We’re delighted to nominate “The Border” by Solomon Samson for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing!
We are pleased to nominate works by Darlene Eliot, Suzana Stojanović, James Miller, and Olga Krause, translated by Grace Sewell for Sonder Press Best Small Fictions.
Your Impossible Voice is pleased to nominate the following works for Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations Anthology
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America – including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
We are delighted to nominate these small but mighty works for Best Microfiction 2023!
Macansantos’s Love and Other Rituals is the new collection of stories about Filipinos at home and in the diaspora, out from the University of Melbourne’s Grattan Street Press.
The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing.
Buttered Hair is a part of the 2022 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series.
This is the wrong place. No one’s turning back, which is a kind of courage. Location! location! location!
Your Impossible Voice is proud to nominate these five works for Best Small Fictions of 2021.
Virga, a derivation of the Latin word for “branch,” is the name for rain that dries before it touches the ground, appearing as a mass of streaks diffusing underneath a dark cloud. Shin Yu Pai’s newest collection, Virga, is a poetic reenactment of this meteorological occurrence.
Your Impossible Voice is proud to nominate six selections from issues 24 and 25 for Pushcart Prizes.
With his 11th book, We Prefer The Damned, Carlo Matos explores bisexual identity, relationships, erasure, and denial. Through this collection, Matos — a former MMA fighter — embraces past and present, old self and new self, while giving voice to the complexities of the bi+/pan/poly experience.
Translator and countertenor Scott Belluz discusses the possibility of having a father tongue while writing in his mother tongue in The Italian Review.
Zeyn Joukhadar interviews Andrea Abi-Karam in Them. “In the punk poet-performer’s latest collection, they explore the role of poetry in the fight against white supremacy and late-stage capitalism.”
Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel reflect on political radicalism, inventive aesthetics, and the publication of their anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics.
What’s going on? What do you need to hear? How can you move forward?
Finding an answer may be as simple as swiping left or right. Forget This Good Thing I Just Said is a new experience, based on an old kind of book – the collection of short sayings, or aphorisms.
Visual inspirations behind Susan Daitch’s Siege of Comedians, a triptych of interconnected stories on exile, migration, crime scenes, and inventing language.
Alien Nation collects 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders, including frequent YIV contributor Abeer Hoque.
I saw that my father had bought a kerosene lamp — I guessed he would use it when our electricity went out. I knew that he liked old-fashioned things and might find its antique shape and dim glow comforting. Moreover, he had no income — my mother worked at a hospital job — so he would appreciate the savings in electricity. He burned the lamp in the kitchen at night while he drank. I imagined the lamp was still glowing when he fell asleep at the table.
We can shake the spray
as much as we want,
but if she wasn’t filled
with all those colors
with all that turning