FC2 is pleased to announce that Amina Cain will serve as final judge for the 2024 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, and Ray Levy will serve as final judge for the 2024 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest.
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.
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.
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.
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,...
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....
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.
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 WorldSophie Klahr & Corey Zeller
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
SchoolRay Levy
Both an exorcism of contemporary academia and a comedic portrait of an artist seeking the means to survive
Infinite ConstellationsKhadijah Queen & K. Ibura, Eds.
A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging
As if Fire Could Hide UsMelanie Rae Thon
A love song in three movements
Always Crashing in the Same CarLance Olsen
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days