Spring 2022 FC2 Release: Swimming with Dead Stars by Vi Khi Nao
A hypnotic sojourn of planetary proportions through the terrestrial contingencies of bodies, health, poverty, and salvation Maldon is an adjunct literature instructor at a prestigious East Coast university, with a deteriorating heart condition and no insurance....Fall 2021 Reading
FC2’s Fall 2021 reading features JoAnna Novak, Yannick Murphy, and Marc Anthony Richardson.
Fall 2021 FC2 Release: Meaningful Work by JoAnna Novak
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, Joanna Novak’s short fiction debut is a stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction.
Fall 2021 FC2 Release: By The Time You Read This by Yannick Murphy
Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Yannick Murphy’s gathering of luminescent stories illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation.
Infinite Constellations
A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days
Swimming With Dead Stars
A hypnotic sojourn of planetary proportions through the terrestrial contingencies of bodies, health, poverty, and salvation
Ascension
A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind’s vexed relationship with nature
My Haunted Home
Meditations on the ways grief is felt and harvested — the funny, the sorrowful, the surreal, and the unmentionable
Benefit Street
A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imagination