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Issue 24 | Spring 2021

Spring is here and so is a new issue of Your Impossible Voice! For our twenty-fourth issue, we have daring new work from Jesus Quintero, Bri Stoever, Rebeca Abidail Flores, Curt Saltzman, Doina Ruști (translated by Ileana Marin) Max Blue, Isabella Rae Barrengos, Nadia Villafuerte (translated by Pennell Somsen), Monica Macansantos, Gabriela Ruivo Trindade (translated by Andrew McDougall), Kathleen Bryson, Edward Smallfield, Kristin Fogdall, Valerie Coulton, and Peter Grandbois. Cover art by Matthew Felix Sun.

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Contributor News: Monica Macansantos

Monica Macansantos (“The Day I Was a Comfort Woman,” Issue 4) has a new short story,“Maricel,” in The Fictioneer’s Winter 2015 issue.The Fictioneer is published by Unsolicited Press.Readers can order copies of the Winter 2015 issue or subscriptions from their...

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Contributor News: Monica Macansantos

Congratulations to Monica Macansantos (“The Day I Was a Comfort Woman,” Issue 4),who was recently awarded a Victoria Doctoral Scholarshipby the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand,where she will be starting a PhD in Creative Writingat their International...

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Issue 4 | Summer 2014

With the summer heat just around the corner, Your Impossible Voice #4 is here to refresh and delight! Our latest issue brings new work from Fulbright Foundation fellow R. Zamora Linmark, National Endowment for the Arts fellow Geraldine Connolly, Norma Farber First Book Award winner Karen An-hwei Lee, Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock, David Bajo, Chris Yamashita, Racquel Goodison, Michael du Plessis, Sven Hansen-Löve, John Beckman, Christopher Kondrich, Sammy Greenspan, Peter Burzynski, Bryce Emley, Monica Macansantos, Sierra-Nicole Qualles. Cover art by Jason Trbovich.

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Monica Macansantos reads The Day I Was a Comfort Woman

Monica Macansantos earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Masters Review, Five Quarterly, TAYO Literary...

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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