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.
Fall 2021 FC2 Release: Messiahs by Marc Anthony Richardson
A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice, Messiahs centers on two nameless lovers: a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner “exonerated” after more than two years on death row.
2022 Ronald Sukenick Contest for Innovative Fiction Judge
The 2022 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest will be judged be Marream Krollos.
2022 Catherine Doctorow Contest for Innovative Fiction Judge
The 2022 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest will be judged be Cristina Rivera Garza.
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