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.
2020 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest Winner
For the 2020 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest, Sarah Blackman has selected Meaningful Work by JoAnna Novak.
FC2 Spring 2020 Release: The Town of Whispering Dolls by Susan Neville
Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war.
FC2 Spring 2020 Release: The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona.
FC2 Fall 2019 Release: Masses & Motets by Jeffrey DeShell
A gripping crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue.
FC2 Fall 2019 Release: Drain Songs by Grant Maierhofer
Stories and a novella chronicling the struggles of addiction, anxiety, and withdrawal brutally and tenderly rendered.
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