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

All submissions close on September 1 for the remainder of 2026. 

What We Are Looking For

• We are most interested in voice-driven, off-center, and innovative work. Please read our most recent issue if you're unsure what that means.
• All submissions should be of previously unpublished work.
• We have no minimum word count and rarely publish work longer than 15,000 words.

What You Should Know

• We publish new work weekly online and two print issues annually. 
• We accept submissions through submittable. Please do not email us your submissions—we will not consider them.
• Please do not include your name on your submission itself. 
• Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but we ask that you withdraw your submission immediately if accepted elsewhere. 
• If you want to withdraw part of a submission, please email us at editor@yourimpossiblevoice.com. 
• We don't have a preferred document format or font, but we do ask that you make sure it's easily legible.
• If you used AI to create your submission, please let us know. Tell us how and why. We reserve the right to remove work if we find out you used AI without disclosing it.
• We respond to all submissions, though sometimes it takes us several months. We ask for your patience. You will hear from us.
• If we have previously published your work, we ask you to wait eighteen months before submitting again.
• We provide contributor copies and nominate for prizes and awards.
• Your Impossible Voice acquires first serial rights, non-exclusive electronic rights, and non-exclusive archival rights to the work. Upon publication, all other rights revert to the author.