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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
Pushcart 2023 Nominees
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.
Best Microfiction 2023 Nominations
We are delighted to nominate these small but mighty works for Best Microfiction 2023!
Issue 27 | Fall 2022
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.
New from Monica Macansantos: Love and Other Rituals
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.
Your Impossible Voice 2022 Best of the Net Nominations
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.
Siamak Vossoughi reads “Buffalo”
Siamak Vossoughi reads his short story “Buffalo” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #26.
New from Nicholas Alexander: Buttered Hair
Buttered Hair is a part of the 2022 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series.
Marcela Sulak reads excerpts from “Hehasnoname”
Marcela Sulak reads excerpts from her translation of Sharron Hass’ “Hehasnoname.” For her current work on Sharron Hass, Marcela Sulak has received a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.
John Rey Dave Aquino reads “Padre de Familia”
John Rey Dave Aquino reads an excerpt from his short story “Padre de Familia” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #26.
Whitni Battle reads an excerpt from “The Golden Hops”
Whitni Battle reads an excerpt from her translation of “The Golden Hops” by Alberto Ortiz De Zarate.
Steve Davenport reads “Moon Talk”
Steve Davenport, author of Uncontainable Noise (2006), Overpass (2012), and Bruise Songs (2020), reads “Moon Talk” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #26.
James Miller reads My Wife Was Drunk at Hobby Lobby
James Miller reads his flash fiction “My Wife Was Drunk at Hobby Lobby” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #26.
Anna B. Sutton reads “Love Creek Cave”
Anna B. Sutton, poet and co-founder of the Porch Writers’ Collective, reads “Love Creek Cave” appearing in Your Impossible Voice #26.
Issue 26 | Spring 2022
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.
“Proposal for the Construction of an Ethnic Strip Mall” by Alvin Lu in New Sinews
This is the wrong place. No one’s turning back, which is a kind of courage. Location! location! location!
Your Impossible Voice 2021 Best Small Fictions Nominees
Your Impossible Voice is proud to nominate these five works for Best Small Fictions of 2021.