2022 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest Winner
For the 2022 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Cristina Rivera Garza has selected “Ways to Disappear” by Victoria Lancelotta.
Spring 2022 FC2 Release: White Wedding by Kathleen Woods
An enigmatic woman wanders from a pleasure mansion to a backyard wedding, upending the lives of everyone present No one knows the woman at the wedding. Not the caterer, an easy target, succumbing to her advances. Not the pregnant bride or her tangled family,...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.
Ways to Disappear
Stories that excavate the unexamined places between dread and desire, promise and threat, where the body is both prison and salvation
There Is Only One Ghost in the World
The fragmented meditations of a multilayered voice, an intimate witness to our times that delicately and bluntly reveals the best and the worst in all of us
School
Both an exorcism of contemporary academia and a comedic portrait of an artist seeking the means to survive
Infinite Constellations
A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging
As if Fire Could Hide Us
A love song in three movements
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days