Your Impossible Voice #31 finds the doomsday clock ticking twenty days from the apocalypse. It’s chock-full of liars, the lost, and the lonely floating in fog and hungry for cake, eggs, and kink. All that plus Allen Ginsberg, Frida Kahlo, and a magnificent tower of giraffes.
Featuring work by Joshua Escobar, Adelheid Duvanel (translated by Tyler Schroeder), Tanya Žilinskas, Sumitra Singam, Jean-Luc Raharimanana (translated by Tom Tulloh), Arlene Tribbia, Addison Zeller, Mehdi M. Kashani, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer, Jane Snyder, Charles O. Smith, Taro Williams, Joanna Theiss, Kirsten Kaschock, Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz, Steve Castro, Linda Wojtowick, and Ann Pedone.
Issue thirty is searching, seeking, straining for roots, for mothers, for stylish shoes, and The Truth. It’s about mysterious X-rays and golden crabs, motorcycles and masquerades, joyful silences and mild underhavens. It’s voyeuristic, nostalgic, and completely out to sea.
Featuring daring new work and translations by Jeffrey Kingman, Veronica Wasson, Kasimma, Wilfrido Nolledo, Amy DeBellis, Khalil AbuSharekh, Lina Munar Guevara and Ellen Jones, Daniel David Froid, Ricardo Piglia and Erik Noonan, Bailey Sims, Francisco García González and Bradley J. Nelson, William Aarnes, Philip Jason, Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones, Betsy Martin, Nicole F. Kimball, and Alvin Lu.
Issue 29 brings 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.
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.
Issue twenty-seven invites you to a chimeric gathering of wanders, misfits, rebels, playboys, and survivors.
Featuring entrancing 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Featuring work by Pedro Ugarte (translated by Alan Williams), Chris Kraus: Amboy, C.I. Nwodim, Rachel Ballenger, M.W. Johnston, Yoss (translated by George Henson), Emily Zasada, Deepinder Mayell, Xavier Queipo (translated by Jacob Rogers), Diana Raab, Carol Hamilton, Martin Willitts Jr., Kelli Allen, S.D. Lishan, Leah Mueller, Leanne Grabel, Jade Sharma, Fabia Oliveira. Cover art by Robert Thurman.
Issue 14 of Your Impossible Voice features new work from Peter H.Z. Hsu, B. Mason, Kirin Khan, Moinul Ahsan Saber (translated by Shabnam Nadiya), Geri Lipschultz, Michael Leal García, John Jodzio, Padma Prasad, Cristina Vega, Sophie Strand, Alfredo Barnaby, Craig Evenson, Sean Mahoney, Peter J. Grieco, Ieisha Banks, and Al Simmons. Cover art by Fabrice Poussin.
Brash and velvety new work from Laura Legge, Elena V. Molina, Han Ong, Emile DeWeaver, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram & Steve Davenport, Debby Bloch, and more.
Issue 9, Fall 2015 features Adam Klein, Andrei Babikov, Chin-Sun Lee, Courtney Moreno, Diane Payne, Evan Hansen, Harry McEwan, Jen Schalliol, Jessica Murray, Joe Baumann, Morgan Christie, Roger Mensink, Satoshi Iwai, Scott Beal, Simon Perchik, Thea Swanson, Theodore Worozbyt, Wilfredo Pascual. Cover art by D-L Alvarez.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With the summer heat just around the corner, Your Impossible Voice #4 is here to refresh and delight! Our latest issue brings new work from Fulbright Foundation fellow R. Zamora Linmark, National Endowment for the Arts fellow Geraldine Connolly, Norma Farber First Book Award winner Karen An-hwei Lee, Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock, David Bajo, Chris Yamashita, Racquel Goodison, Michael du Plessis, Sven Hansen-Löve, John Beckman, Christopher Kondrich, Sammy Greenspan, Peter Burzynski, Bryce Emley, Monica Macansantos, Sierra-Nicole Qualles. Cover art by Jason Trbovich.
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.
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
Your Impossible Voice publishes brash and velvety new work from around the globe. The debut issue features new work from award winning authors and poets, including Jessica Hagedorn, Gillian Conoley, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Arisa White, and more.
