2021 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest Winner
For the 2021 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest, Joyelle McSweeney has selected “Benefit Street” by Adria Bernardi.
FC2 at AWP
Please visit FC2 at the AWP 2021 Virtual Book Fair, find a 30% discount off our books at the FC2 Book Sale, and join our reading at AWP on March 3rd at 11:00 am EST.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.
Shame
A daring exploration of the potential and limits of memory and self
Ascension
A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind’s vexed relationship with nature
My Haunted Home
Meditations on the ways grief is felt and harvested — the funny, the sorrowful, the surreal, and the unmentionable
Benefit Street
A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imagination
Swimming With Dead Stars
A hypnotic sojourn of planetary proportions through the terrestrial contingencies of bodies, health, poverty, and salvation
White Wedding
An enigmatic woman wanders from a pleasure mansion to a backyard wedding, upending the lives of everyone present