FC2 is delighted to announce that Weirdly Tuned Antennae, by Radhika Singh, has been selected by contest judges Katie Jean Shinkle and Steven Dunn as winner of the 2025 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize! FC2 will publish Weirdly Tuned Antennae in the Fall of 2026.
Radhika Singh is a writer and editor living in Queens, New York. Her fiction speculates on the presence of magic in this world, the connection to spirit and consciousness, and the power of the people to organize for collective liberation. An excerpt from Weirdly Tuned Antennae was featured in the 2024 Genre issue of The Markaz Review.
Radhika, welcome to the collective! We also want to recognize the other finalist manuscripts that, although they did not win, were sent to the contest judges:
- Becoming by Jennifer Bryan
- Book of Days by Grant Faulkner
- Object (of) Permanence by Michelle Hoeckel-Neal
- The Collected Reports of the Committee on Grief by Billy Howell
- Monsters at Home by Susan L. Lin
- the electric forest by Morgan Rose
- Permeable Membranes: Stories by Gina Thayer
Sincere thanks to everybody who entered, and to contest judges Katie Jean Shinkle and Steven Dunn.
The reading period for the 2026 FC2 Innovative Fiction Prizes will open on August 15, 2025. Winners receive cash awards and publication. Judges will be announced in May.
