Ricardo Bernhard's "To Understand Light" can be found in our latest issue. Bernhard is a Brazilian writer and diplomat currently based in South Africa. His fiction has appeared in Neon Origami and is forthcoming in Litbreak Magazine. tr.ee/fkmsDTE2nk

It's almost the weekend and you deserve something special. Check out "Little White Monkeys" by Manshuk Kali and translated by @slava8.bsky.social appearing in our newest issue! tr.ee/GUrbjAIzdG

Incoming! Don't miss out on "Missiles Like Low Ceilings" by Will Falk in YIV 34! Falk is a poet, attorney, and community organizer. His first poetry collection is When I Set the Sweetgrass Down (Wayfarer Books, 2023). tr.ee/dxIwNpEfVV

Two Millimeters In by Jade Kleiner from our latest issue! Kleiner is a writer from New England. Among other places, her poetry can be found in Neologism Poetry Journal and manywor(I)ds, her haiku in Haikuniverse and Cold Moon Journal, and her fiction in Bright Flash Literary Review. tr.ee/wyEFtz1ugz

David Anson Lee makes his YIV debut with After the Simulation Learns to Listen in issue 34! David Anson Lee is a physician, poet, and philosopher. His work has appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, Braided Way, Right Hand Pointing, Eunoia Review, Silver Birch Press, and other journals. tr.ee/G9iT5QPg4P

James Nulick returns to YIV with an excerpt from his novel. Don't miss "Montara" in issue 34! James Nulick is the author of several highly acclaimed novels including Plastic Soul, The Moon Down to Earth, and Valencia. “Montara” is an excerpt from his new novel-in-progress, Saint Velour.

Missing Bake Off? Garth Robinson has a piece to help with your Hollywood craving. Robinson lives along the Chesapeake Bay and holds an MFA from Hollins University. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in DIAGRAM, Iron Horse Literary Review, Oyster River Pages, and elsewhere. tr.ee/Seh7XRRiTi

Next up in issue 34 is Poor Thing by Claire Salvato! Salvato's work has appeared in The New York Times Learning Network, The Eunoia Review, Nowhere Girl Collective, and Magus Mabus magazine. Click the link in our bio for more.

Have you stopped by our latest issue? If not you are missing New in Town, a triptych of poems by Alex Dodt! Dodt's poems, stories, and essays can be found in Epiphany, BOOTH, Florida Review, and others, which he shares on various social media hellscapes @alexisapoet. tr.ee/omE3Nx7zUH

In Heaven Everything is Fine by Grant Maierhofer appears in our latest issue! Maierhofer is the author of over ten books of fiction and nonfiction, and the founding editor of Index Press. bit.ly/4f96M3H

Enjoy an excerpt from Witness to the Non-Arrival—the first of two poems by @stacecjohnson.bsky.social in our latest issue! bit.ly/3PWx9zB

Garima Chhikara is a writer from Bangalore, India. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Forge Literary Magazine, Hypertext Magazine, Hobart, Cherry Tree, Lost Balloon, BULL, and elsewhere. Read the full story now! tr.ee/TjQbNl6C3g

Grateful to see this today, and to be in such wonderful company.

Let's do issue 34! tr.ee/3DcpE2V3cG

Issue 34 arrives like a fresh sprout following a long, dark winter. Featuring brash and velvety new work from around the the globe!

Tuesday #flashfiction: Retrograde by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social! "Mama got cancer. Bummer. I’m eleven, going on twelve. Making shit of my time. Time is still a friend to me but an enemy to my mother. It’s because I grew up too fast, she tells me, and I can’t tell if she’s joking."

If elected will you vote to continue the current leadership in the senate @schumer.senate.gov

#Flashfiction Tuesday (On a Thursday!). Make some space in your reading schedule for Making Room by Elizabeth Ohga

Thanks to @keithjpowell.com, @livingjelly.bsky.social,and everyone at @yourimpossiblevoice.com for publishing this new story of mine, "Courtship," on their awesome journal's site today! yourimpossiblevoice.com/courtship/

#flashfiction Tuesday: @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social's Courtship! "I wish I’d known you were coming over so I was prepared, but you’re here now and all I have is three swigs of gin from the bottle hiding in my freezer and those chamomile tea packets I stole from the AA meeting I crashed last Tuesday"

"Eartha Davis’ debut collection, màthair beinn, is a reverie, a dream within a semiotic sequence, where language entwines, layers, and unfurls, creating a new dialogue with the natural world." @maureenalsop.bsky.social on Davis' debut collection, out now from Vagabond Press

“I Don’t Knock This Time” opens with a bang. A story of grief, rage, and letting go. Today's #flashfiction Tuesday is from Scott Bolendz and is live now!

"While Updike, and later Barthelme, have crafted fine stories, by chance set in American supermarkets, Theroux’s tale offers a particularly earthy lived, work experience." Daniel Picker takes on Paul Theroux’s Late Tapestry: The Vanishing Point.

"It was a chintzy dollar-store tiara, but this queen shone with inner beauty and galactic light. Never mind the plastic boondoggle of the planet: the low vibrations had yet to be transcended. Mother God Amy was the key." The great Lorette C. Luzajic returns for today's #flashfiction Tuesday!

Thrilled to have my hungry fence story in the wonderful @yourimpossiblevoice.com Many thanks @keithjpowell.com

"The fence will love our miniature cathedral. Shout out to our diligent citizens who’ve built the foundation, walls, and pillars." And we're back with a new #flashfiction Tuesday, courtesy of @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!

New from YIV contributor RU Marshall! "A project of epic proportions, pulled off with remarkable élan." —Kirkus

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Flash Fiction feat. @yourimpossiblevoice.com @broadripplereview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Such a lovely review of my new book by Wilma Kahn, published by the fabulous Your Impossible Voice!

"'Scrap' is a multivalent word around whose every meaning and nuance Castle fashions poignant—and sometimes horrifying—flash prose and poetry to reveal her family in all its human pain, mystery, and love." Wilma J. Kahn reviews Scrap by @luannecastle.bsky.social from @emergejournal.bsky.social!

"Our world suffers today from its authoritarian die-cut mentality, its obtuse bluntness, and its inhuman opacity. Rilke leaves us, with yet another uncollected poem, untitled, as many of them are, written just about two years before his death, as a gift to us..." Wally Swist returns to YIV!

Excited to announce the publication of my novel, The Hollow of Evening, with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines in Winter 2027. Gratitude to Akin Akinwumi and Meghan MacDonald of the press, as well as to the journals, editors, and organizations that have supported my writing through the years.

"Zamyatin lived under totalitarianism. Orwell read about it from a distance and turned it into moral theater for English readers. And that’s why 1984 feels so clumsy. It isn’t a realistic fear—it’s a bad thought experiment that doesn’t even obey its own rules." T.S. Carney on dystopias in We & 1984

My latest flash piece, published today by @yourimpossiblevoice.com

#VivanLasSemillas!

Tuesday #flashfiction: @brandonmcneice.bsky.social plants the seeds of rebellion!

Peter Mladinic on A Family of Good Women by Teddy Jones, out now from @stoneycreekbooks.bsky.social! "Against the backdrop of this male-dominated world, Imogene raises her voice, as she ponders fundamental questions: What is family? Where is home? Who am I?"

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

We are back with our first Tuesday #flashfiction of 2026, Squirrel Fish by Ann Yuan! It's a feast you won't want to miss.

Before you head down to the breakers for Mathieu Parsy’s new flash in Issue 17, sink your teeth into his stunning (and bite size) piece from @yourimpossiblevoice.com yourimpossiblevoice.com/your-body-is...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

"This book has been out for a half dozen years and was well received for a small press volume. But I just came across it a few weeks ago and was so happy to read it that I feel compelled to publicly respond with my thanks to the one-named San Francisco poet, Klipschutz."

Love this so much 💕 yourimpossiblevoice.com/a-list-of-th... @yourimpossiblevoice.com @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

We are delighted to share that "Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg" by Arlene Tribbia was listed among the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025. Congratulations!

My micro "We're All Bananas" about sisters and skin found a home at @yourimpossiblevoice.com. yourimpossiblevoice.com/were-all-ban...

The second story was "Who by Fire", a dark natural disaster/apocalypse micro: yourimpossiblevoice.com/who-by-fire/ Thank you @yourimpossiblevoice.com for giving this story a place in your pages 🙏

Here's my second story in @nffr.bsky.social's 2025 flash fiction prize issue. Boundless gratitude to Valerie Fox and colleagues for selecting "My Brother, the Salmon," which got its lungs in workshop with the wonderful @megpokrass.bsky.social! 💜🙏🏼💜🙏🏼💜 newflashfiction.com/my-brother-t...

Links to the stories I published this year are on my site, along with many more from years past. Thanks for checking them out if you have time! mattjakubowski.com/about/fiction/

yes that’s what’s stopping bookstores from doing this. a lack of courage