YIV is proud to nominate the following works for the Best Literary Translation 2025 anthology.
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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.
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.
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!
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.
New from Nicholas Alexander: Buttered Hair
Buttered Hair is a part of the 2022 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series.
“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.
Shin Yu Pai’s Virga reviewed in The Georgia Review
Virga, a derivation of the Latin word for “branch,” is the name for rain that dries before it touches the ground, appearing as a mass of streaks diffusing underneath a dark cloud. Shin Yu Pai’s newest collection, Virga, is a poetic reenactment of this meteorological occurrence.
Our 2021 Pushcart Nominations
Your Impossible Voice is proud to nominate six selections from issues 24 and 25 for Pushcart Prizes.
New from Carlo Matos: We Prefer the Damned
With his 11th book, We Prefer The Damned, Carlo Matos explores bisexual identity, relationships, erasure, and denial. Through this collection, Matos — a former MMA fighter — embraces past and present, old self and new self, while giving voice to the complexities of the bi+/pan/poly experience.
Scott Belluz Discusses a “Father Tongue” in The Italian Review
Translator and countertenor Scott Belluz discusses the possibility of having a father tongue while writing in his mother tongue in The Italian Review.
Andrea Abi-Karam Wants to Dance in the Ruins of Capitalism
Zeyn Joukhadar interviews Andrea Abi-Karam in Them. “In the punk poet-performer’s latest collection, they explore the role of poetry in the fight against white supremacy and late-stage capitalism.”
Contributor News: An Interview with Andrea Abi-Karam in Literary Hub
Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel reflect on political radicalism, inventive aesthetics, and the publication of their anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics.
Contributor News: Colin Dodds launches Forget This Good Thing I Just Said
What’s going on? What do you need to hear? How can you move forward?
Finding an answer may be as simple as swiping left or right. Forget This Good Thing I Just Said is a new experience, based on an old kind of book – the collection of short sayings, or aphorisms.
Contributor News: 13 Ways of Looking, with Susan Daitch in Pioneer Works
Visual inspirations behind Susan Daitch’s Siege of Comedians, a triptych of interconnected stories on exile, migration, crime scenes, and inventing language.
Contributor News: Abeer Hoque in Alien Nation
Alien Nation collects 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders, including frequent YIV contributor Abeer Hoque.
Contributor News: Lampblack by Thaddeus Rutowski in Carousel Magazine
I saw that my father had bought a kerosene lamp — I guessed he would use it when our electricity went out. I knew that he liked old-fashioned things and might find its antique shape and dim glow comforting. Moreover, he had no income — my mother worked at a hospital job — so he would appreciate the savings in electricity. He burned the lamp in the kitchen at night while he drank. I imagined the lamp was still glowing when he fell asleep at the table.
Contributor News: New Work from Darren C. Demaree in Cult of Clio
We can shake the spray
as much as we want,
but if she wasn’t filled
with all those colors
with all that turning
New from Andrea Abi-Karam: Villainy
Andrea Abi-Karam answers the call to action for poetry itself to become the radical accomplice it was destined to be in their second book, Villainy. In order to live through the grief of the Ghost Ship Fire and the Muslim Ban, Villainy foments political action in public spaces, and indexes the various emotional states, such as rage, revelry, fear, grief, and desire to which queers must tend during protest.
New from Casey Plett: A Dream of a Woman
Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love.
New Translation from Caroline Wilcox Reul: Andra Schwarz’s In the morning we are glass
Caroline Wilcox Reul’s translations have appeared in the PEN Poetry Series, Lunch Ticket, The Los Angeles Review, Exchanges, Waxwing, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Columbia Journal, and other publications. In addition to In the morning we are glass, she translated the book, Who Lives / Wer lebt, by Elisabeth Borchers (Tavern Books, 2017). She was awarded the Summer/Fall 2018 Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation and Multilingual Texts.
Nine Books About Your Life: Jay Besemer
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the third installment, we speak with Jay Besemer, author of the forthcoming Theories of Performance (The Lettered Streets Press).