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Contributor News: Nels Hanson
Nels Hanson (“Two Rivers,” “Orchid and Butterfly,” Issue 5) has work published or forthcoming atSharkpack Review AnnualThe StraddlerFour Chambers PressStoneboatMeat for TeaSqualorlyHamilton Stone ReviewSedimentsBlotteratureCarbon Culture ReviewWorks & DaysandThe...
Contributor News: Kent Monroe
Artwork by Amira FarooqKent Monroe’s (“Karla,” Issue 5) essay,“Gender Equilibrium or Bust"is now up atThe Missing Slate.
Contributor News: Stacey Levine
Stacey Levine (“A Man Hid,” “Bianca Said,” Issue 1) has two new stories you can read online:“Happy Birthday Kenny C.”at Paragraphitiand“Conference-Center Romance”at The Stranger.She will also be readingat Reed Collegeon Thursday, October 30, 6:30 p.m.Performing Arts...
Contributor News: Kirsten Kaschock
Kirsten Kaschock (“To Throw, Fling, Hurl, or Toss,” Issue 4)has a new book of poetry outfrom the University of Pittsburgh Press titledThe Dotterywhich won The Donald Hall Prize for Poetryfrom the Association of Writers and Writing Programs last year.She will also be...
Contributor News: Heather Mackey
Heather Mackey (reviews of Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing and Rodigo Rey Rosa’s Severina)will be reading from her debut novel DreamwoodThursday October 16, 6 p.m.at Lit on the Lake as part of LitquakeLake ChaletGondola Room1520 Lakeside DriveOakland, CA
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...