Publishing brash and velvety new work from around the globe, including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, literary reviews, essays, excerpts, art, and interviews.

Established in 2013, Your Impossible Voice is a nonprofit literary journal publishing voice-driven, off-center, and innovative work. Our mission is to support writers and poets, encourage readership, and promote literary scholarship.

Issues of the journal are published twice annually, online and in both digital and print editions. Reviews, essays, and interviews are published throughout the year.

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Your Impossible Voice

General call

Your Impossible Voice accepts poetry submissions year-round. Our active reading periods are January through May and August through October. Sending us your work outside of one of these reading periods won’t hurt your chance of acceptance but may mean it will take us longer to respond to your submission.

Poetry

Your Impossible Voice publishes new, previously unpublished critical essays on literature and essays on craft on our website.   There is no preferred submission length but shorter pieces will be given greater consideration.   Please make sure your name does not appear on your submission.   Personal essays should be submitted as nonfiction.  We offer $50 for solicited book reviews and unsolicited in-depth author retrospectives or essays.  Unfortunately, we cannot currently offer payment for unsolicited essays, but we will consider them for publication.

Critical Essays & Craft Essays

Your Impossible Voice accepts fiction submissions year-round. Our active reading periods are December through February and July through September. Sending us your work outside of one of these reading periods won’t hurt your chance of acceptance but may mean it will take us longer to respond to your submission. We accept short stories, flash, micro, translations, and novel excerpts.

Fiction

Your Impossible Voice prefers reviews of lesser-reviewed works published within the past year.   Reviews should be between 500-2,000 words except in the case of reviewing an author’s entire body of work.   Please make sure your name does not appear on the review itself.   We offer $50 for solicited book reviews and unsolicited in-depth author retrospectives or essays.  Unfortunately, we cannot currently offer payment for unsolicited book reviews, but we will consider them for publication.  We are particularly interested in small press releases of contemporary translations, works by women, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC authors.

Literary Reviews

Your Impossible Voice accepts nonfiction submissions year-round. Our active reading periods are December through February and July through September. Sending us your work outside of one of these reading periods won’t hurt your chance of acceptance but may mean it will take us longer to respond to your submission. We accept essays, memoirs, flash CNF, micro CNF, translations, and excerpts. from larger works.

Nonfiction

We  are always interested in striking images for our front cover. Send previously unpublished submissions in .gif, .jpg, or .png format with a resolution of 300 dpi or higher. Please be sure to briefly describe your media in your cover letter when submitting and send no more than THREE at a time.

Cover Art

Your Impossible Voice publishes new, previously unpublished interviews with emerging and established writers and artists. There is no preferred length of submissions. Unfortunately we are unable to pay for interviews at this time.

Interviews

Beginning in 2023, Your Impossible Voice will begin publishing flash work online on an ongoing basis. 
What You Should Know

  Work submitted through this link will be considered for our online feature only. If you want your work considered for inclusion in our biannual print issues, please use one of the other submission links.
  We welcome previously unpublished works of fiction, CNF, or prose poetry between 50-750 words.
  Multiple submissions are welcome, provided the total word count does not exceed 750 words. Please include all submissions in a single document.
  Please include a brief third-person bio. 
  Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but we ask that you withdraw your submission immediately if accepted elsewhere.
  We don't have a preferred document format or font, but we do ask that you make sure it's easily legible and that your name does not appear on the submission itself.
  We accept submissions through submittable. Please do not email us your submissions.
  We respond to all online flash and micro submissions within thirty days.
  We cannot pay contributors at this time, but we do nominate for awards.
  Your Impossible Voice acquires first serial rights, non-exclusive electronic rights, and non-exclusive archival rights to the work.

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