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Contributor News: Mary Burger
Trafficking, screenprint on paper (2014)Mary Burger (“Excerpt from Red Dust Tangle,” Issue 2) has a couple of new art shows coming up.Root Division's 13th Annual Art AuctionFundraiser for the nonprofit San Francisco arts organizationOpening reception Saturday, October...
Contributor News: Siamak Vossoughi
Congratulations to Siamak Vossoughi (“Worth it to be Wrong,” Issue 3) whose short story collectionBetter Than War has won the Flannery O’Connor Award.It will be published by the University of Georgia Press in Fall 2015.Flannery O’Connor series editor Nancy Zafris on...
Contributor News: Alvin Lu
Alvin Lu (“Early Spring,” Issue 1) will be readingat the Bazaar Writers Salon, in San Francisco’s Richmond District.Sunday, October 5, 6 p.m.Bazaar Café5927 California Street, San Franciscoreading with Kim Addonizio and Solmaz Sharifhosted by Peter Kline
Contributor News: Jon Riccio
Jon Riccio (“The Kleptomaniac’s Giraffe,” “Epistle Presley,” Issue 3) has published two new poems:“Tangled Plaster”was published in the most recent issue of Stone Highway Review.Another poem, “The Patroness Offers You a Drink,”was published in the third issue of...
Contributor News: Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch (“Production for Use,” Issue 3) has a new story,“Into Your Life It Will Creep,”forthcoming in Issue #19 of Black Clock.
Contributor News: Elise Glassman
Elise Glassman will be reading from her story “The Junk,” which appeared in Issue 3 of Your Impossible Voice,
along with other work at Lit Crawl Seattle.
Contributor News: Mara Naselli
Congratulations to Mara Naselli ("My Brief Suspension of Judgment in the World of Bad Art," Issue 5), recipient of a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award! The program – the only national literary awards program of its kind devoted exclusively to women – was...
Your Impossible Voice #5 Launch Party
Your Impossible Voice is turning one year old! To celebrate this most momentous milestone of literary longevity we are having a reading at Alley Cat Books. On hand will be a cavalcade of contributors to the just released Your Impossible Voice #5.[gallery link="none"...
Mara Naselli reads My Brief Suspension of Judgment in the World of Bad Art
Mara Naselli is an editor and writer. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourth Genre, The Kenyon Review, Agni, Ninth Letter, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere. She writes about literature for 3 Quarks Daily (www.3quarksdaily.com).
Aaron Shurin reads I Could See…
Aaron Shurin's most recent books are King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays, and Citizen, a collection of prose poems, both from City Lights Books. He's Professor Emeritus in the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
Nels Hanson reads “Two Rivers” and “Orchid and Butterfly”
Nels Hanson has worked as a farmer, teacher, and contract writer/editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award, Pushcart Prize nominations in 2010, 2012, and 2014, and has appeared in Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review,...
Michael Shou-Yung Shum reads Ask the Hydrangea
Michael Shou-Yung Shum reads Ask the Hydrangea
Nicholas Alexander Hayes reads Declension
Nicholas Alexander Hayes reads Declension
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.
Contributor News: Lewis Buzbee
Lewis Buzbee (“Though,” Issue 2) has a new book,Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom, just published by Graywolf Press.Early readers have said:“ … an important and humane perspective on what happens to us as individuals as we engage in education.”Insider...
Contributor News: Stacey Levine
Stacey Levine (“A Man Hid,” “Bianca Said,” Issue 1), along with many other women writers*,will be in a new anthology called The Lineup, edited by Richard Thomas,forthcoming in October from Black Lawrence Press.*Stories by: Paula Bomer, Karen Brown, Shannon Cain, Kim...
Contributor News: Laurie Blauner
Laurie Blauner (“Guide for the Perplexed,” Issue 2) has a new book of poetry,It Looks Worse Than I Am, forthcoming in October from What Books Press.It was the first selection from their new open-submission period.
Contributor News: Arielle Greenberg
Image by Letha Wilson, Easter Appalachian Trail, 2010. C-print, paper, and paint.Arielle Greenberg (“Afterschool Special,” “Swallow for Saturday,” Issue 2) has several new poems published online:“Pastoral: Commons,” “The Girl Dropped into the Homespace,” and “I Do Not...
New videos by Maureen Alsop
Maureen Alsop has completed a 4-part short-video series.The first, “Sweepspear,” features an excerpt from “Papery Bewick Swans/1956 Buick Super,” which was first published in Your Impossible Voice 3.The second, “Terrestris,” was posted at YIV in April.Parts 3 and 4...
Contributor News: Siamak Vossoughi
Siamak Vossoughi (“Worth it to be Wrong,” Issue 3) is going to be readingthis weekend as a part of the Beast Crawl festival in Oakland:July 12th, 8 p.m. SHARPOakstop1721 Broadway @ 17th StreetOakland, CaliforniaFirst 100 people get a copy of sparkle +...