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,...Spring 2022 FC2 Release: Swimming with Dead Stars by Vi Khi Nao
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....Fall 2021 Reading
FC2’s Fall 2021 reading features JoAnna Novak, Yannick Murphy, and Marc Anthony Richardson.
The Town of Whispering Dolls
Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war
The Book of Kane and Margaret
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona
Meaningful Work
A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction
By the Time You Read This
A gathering of luminescent stories that 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
Messiahs
A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice