We are excited to announce that the 2027 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize will be judged by Khadijah Queen, and the 2027 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize will be judged by Vanessa Saunders.
Curse Him, by Sophia Terazawa, has been selected by Kazim Ali as winner of the 2026 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize! FC2 will publish Curse Him in the Fall of 2027.
The Chimeras, by Joe Fletcher, has been selected by final judge Alvin Lu as winner of the 2026 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize! FC2 will publish The Chimeras in the Fall of 2027.
The 2026 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize will be judged by Kazim Ali, and the 2026 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize will be judged by Alvin Lu.
In previous years, the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest has been open to writers “with at least three books of fiction published.” This year, we will be excising the words “of fiction” from the eligibility guidelines.
We are delighted to announce that a generous donation from Julia Frey, widow of FC2 co-founder Ronald Sukenick, has enabled us to increase the cash prize associated with the annual Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest from $1,500 to $3,000.
