2020-21 Reading Series: Reading One
Watch our first live author reading; featuring Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Caryl Pagel, and Susan Neville; and be on the lookout for the next FC2 reading!
Meet Vi Khi Nao: Judge of FC2’s 2021 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest
The judge of the 2021 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest is Vi Khi Nao.
Meet Joyelle McSweeney: Judge of FC2’s 2021 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize
This judge of the 2021 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize is Joyelle McSweeney.
“Without an image of tomorrow, one is trapped by blind history….” -Samuel Delany
FC2 remains dedicated to recruiting new and diverse makers of the images of tomorrow and to forging an ever more representative and provocative collective to challenge and overwrite the brutal conventions of our insufficient now.
2020 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest Winner
For the 2020 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest, Renee Gladman has selected The Good Word by Yannick Murphy.
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
Masses & Motets
A crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue
Drain Songs
A collection of related stories that deal with the anxiety, pain, and ennui of addiction and withdrawal
Slater Orchard
An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization