UNDERGROUND VOICES

NOVELS, NOVELLAS, SHORT STORIES, AND POETRY.

ABOUT UNDERGROUND VOICES

Underground Voices started as an online literary magazine in 2004 publishing hard-hitting, raw, dark fiction, flash fiction and poetry. In 2006, it started publishing an annual print edition, alongside the monthly online issues. In 2009, Underground Voices expanded into a small press. And finally, in 2013, Underground Voices became an independent book publisher only, publishing 1-5 books a year.

Underground Voices' contributors have been published in the New York Times; have had books reviewed by the New York Times, the Miami Herald, The Guardian and Entertainment Weekly; have written Hollywood screenplays (Blue Valentine cowritten by UV contributor Cami Delavigne); and have had their books adapted into films (It's Kind of a Funny Story adapted from the book by UV contributor Ned Vizzini). Please see the Contributor's Novels and Awards section for more.

Also see a summary of Underground Voices here:
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Poets&Writers

UNDERGROUND VOICES BOOKS

  • NADJA ON NADJA
    "“Yet another novelistic feat by Tsipi Keller..."
  • VAN GOGH OR THE DAWN OF IT ALL
    A parody of the artistic world and the place of the artist in the world.
  • PETROLEUM TRANSFER
    ENGINEER
    A novel set in South Jersey, circa 1983. By Richard Klin
  • MY TIRED SHADOW
    "Joey Hirsch has created an unrelentingly bleak portrait of an aging fighter who has nothing left to lose and little to gain."
  • THE GOOD DEAD
    "There is a creative maturity to the work that blooms through Sim’s lucid and masterful domain of narrative language."
  • SUPER SPORT
    Ralph Bland's talent for words will draw the reader down crazed streets of mischance and along precipices of bad judgment.
  • THE CRATER OF ORIZABA
    Short story collection. Named a Finalist in the Texas Review Press 2014 George Garrett Fiction Prize Competition.
  • THE PULL OF IT
    "The Pull of It sneaks up on you. The emotional geography is not uncommon, but the trek through it is anything but ordinary."
  • MIRACULOUS FAUNA
    “No one writes like Timmy Reed; he has a haunting, unique voice that sticks hard and fast in your head."
  • THE BEGINNING THINGS
    Nominated for the 19th Library of Virginia Literary Awards. A novel by Bunny Goodjohn




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AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

Work published has been awarded, nominated for or received honorable mention in the following:

2016 NOMINATION FOR THE 19TH LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA LITERARY AWARD
The Beginning Things - Buny Goodjohn

2015 FINALIST, BEVERLY HILLS LITERARY AWARDS
15 of the best short stories - J.S. Kierland

2014 SHELF UNBOUND NOTABLE BOOK
The Demon who Peddled Longing - Khanh Ha

2014 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST, FICTION: VISIONARY CATEGORY
The Collector of Tears, a short story collection - Michael C. Keith

STORYSOUTH MILLION WRITER'S AWARD, 2010 NOTABLE STORY
MITCH JAMES - The River. The Town. The Dead.

STORYSOUTH MILLION WRITER'S AWARD, 2009 NOTABLE STORIES
SEAN HAYDEN - The Face
ZACHARY AMENDT - Marvelous Time Starving

STORYSOUTH MILLION WRITER'S AWARD, 2008 NOTABLE STORIES
J.A. TYLER - And
TAI HONG DUAI - Fang

2008 BEST OF THE WEB, DZANC BOOKS
ZACHARY AMENDT - Casa de Serenidad

STORYSOUTH MILLION WRITER'S AWARD, 2007 NOTABLE STORIES
ZACHARY AMENDT - Casa de Serenidad

2007 PUSHCART PRIZE XXXI BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES ANTHOLOGY, Special Mention
DON FREDD - Jimmie Fitz, Bette Davis and a Christy Mathewson Episode

STORYSOUTH MILLION WRITER'S AWARD, 2005 NOTABLE STORIES
STEVEN J. DINES - Unzipped

STORYSOUTH MILLION WRITER'S AWARD, 2004 NOTABLE STORIES
HARRIS BLOOM - Confessions of a Serial Dater

LASTLY...

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All manuscripts should be sent to
uveditor@undergroundvoices.com

Please see the submissions page for details.