FC2’s annual manuscript contests are now open for submissions, and will remain open until November 1. Send us your manuscripts!
A quick outline: both contests are for book-length fiction manuscripts. The Sukenick contest is open to writers who have not published with FC2, and the prize is $1,500. The Doctorow contest is open to writers who have at least three books of fiction already published (and, again, who have not published with FC2), and the prize is $15,000. Both prizes also include publication by FC2; in the case of the Doctorow, that publication includes an introduction by this year’s final judge, K-Ming Chang. The entry fee for either contest is $25, and fee waivers are available for writers to whom that would be a barrier. We encourage submissions from writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, LGBTQIA+-identifying, immigrant, or from communities otherwise underrepresented in United States literary publications.
You can submit to either contest, or both, on our Submittable page, or follow one of these links to a specific contest:
