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Issue 32 | Spring 2025
Your Impossible Voice #32 is fanning the flames of righteousness as we teeter toward a smoke-crazed horizon. We are tracing the minutia of generations through room-sized replicas and reenactments. We are drying laundry on a patchwork of metal sheets. We are back on campus, on the prowl, clawing at mattresses, chasing ghosts and radiance, plagued by absentia. Above all, we are secure in our knowledge that every fact reigns absolute, even its opposite.
Featuring new work from Vincenzo della Malva, Molara Wood, Khalil AbuSharekh, Ian MacClayn, Karen An-hwei Lee, Austin Adams, Eric T. Racher, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan, Steve Barbaro, Kirsten Kaschock, Mark J. Mitchell, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, DS Maolalai, and Cliff Tisdell.
AbuSharekh’s “Zeppole (aka Awama)” Selected for Best American Essays
Congratulations to Khalil AbuSharekh, whose essay “Zeppole (aka Awama)” was selected for Best American Essays 2025. “Zeppole (aka Awama)” originally appeared in YIV 30.
Levine’s Mice 1961 Named Pulitzer Finalist
Congratulations to the incomparable Stacey Levine, whose novel Mice 1961 was a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize! We were fortunate enough to publish an excerpt back in issue 27.
New from Joshua Escobar: Demons of Eminence
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.
Issue 31 | Fall 2024
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.
2025 Best of the Net
Your Impossible Voice is pleased to nominated the follow works for Best of the Net 2025!
New from Amy Marques: PARTS
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.
Preorder Now Open for Philip Jason’s New Collection
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
Issue 30 | Spring 2024
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.
Best Literary Translations 2025 Nominations
YIV is proud to nominate the following works for the Best Literary Translation 2025 anthology.
2024 Best Small Fictions
Award seasons continues! The Your Impossible Voice is happy to nominate the following works for the 2024 Best Small Fictions.
2024 Best Microfiction Nominations
Your Impossible Voice is delighted to nominate the following works for Best Microfiction 2024!
Pushcart 2024 Nominations
Your Impossible Voice is pleased to announce the following nominations for 2024 Pushcart Prizes from issues 28 and 29.
A Statement on the Israel-Gaza Crisis
Your Impossible Voice supports the Palestinian peoples’ right to justice, freedom, equality, and self-determination. We call for an end to the genocidal violence being waged against Gaza and an end to oppression and occupation.
Issue 29 | Fall 2023
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.
Our 2024 Best of the Net Nominees
Your Impossible Voice is pleased to nominate the following extraordinary works for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net anthology.
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.
The AKO Caine Prize Award for African Writing Nominations
We’re delighted to nominate “The Border” by Solomon Samson for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing!
Your Impossible Voice Best Small Fictions Nominations 2023
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 Best Literary Translations Nominees
Your Impossible Voice is pleased to nominate the following works for Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations Anthology