2023 Innovative Fiction Prize Winners
FC2 is thrilled to announce the winners of our 2023 Innovative Fiction Prizes — Kirstin Allio and Vanessa Saunders!
2023 Doctorow Prize Judge: Matt Bell
FC2 has selected Matt Bell as the final judge for the 2023 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Bell is the author most recently of the novel Appleseed (a New York Times Notable Book) and the craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision.
2023 Sukenick Prize Judge: Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
FC2 has selected Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi as the final judge for the 2023 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. Araki-Kawaguchi is the author of The Book of Kane and Margaret (FC2) and Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (1913 Press). He teaches at Western Washington University.
2022 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest Winner
For the 2022 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest, Marream Krollos has selected “There is Only One Ghost in the World” by Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller.
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,...
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