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.
FC2 Fall 2019 Release: Slater Orchard by Darcie Dennigan
An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization by acclaimed poet Darcie Dennigan.
Submissions Period Now Open for 2020 Innovative Fiction Contests
Fiction Collective Two’s submissions period for the 2020 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and 2020 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize is now open.
2019 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest Winner
For the 2019 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest, Aimee Parkison has selected The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.
2019 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest Winner
For the 2019 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest, Shelley Jackson has selected The Town of Whispering Dolls by Susan Neville.
Bhopal Dance Finalist for Lambda Literary Award
Jennifer Natalya Fink’s Bhopal Dance: A Novel, winner of FC2’s 2017 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, has been named a finalist for the 31st Lambda Literary Awards in Bisexual Fiction.
2018 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest Winner
Famous Children and Famished Adults, by Evelyn Hampton, has won the 2018 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. Evelyn Hampton is the author of Discomfort (Ellipsis Press) and The Aleatory Abyss (Publishing Genius).
2018 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize Winner
Once Into the Night, by Aurelie Sheehan, has won the 2018 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels and three short story collections. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Mississippi Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and other journals. She teaches fiction at the University of Arizona.
Troubling the Waters: Judy Ruiz, John Wideman, Lance Olsen, and My Astonishing Students
Since I began teaching in the PhD Creative Writing Program at University of Utah 15 years ago, I have become increasingly aware of the explosions, fusions, and transformations of fictional forms. My colleagues and students are brilliantly innovative, and their work challenges me aesthetically, intellectually, ethically, spiritually, and emotionally.
Bhopal Dance
Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster — and perhaps our own.
The Moon over Wapakoneta
Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s Midwest, a visionary oracle with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane.
Tokyo
A novel in three parts, linked by a single narrative of disaster, loss, and longing. A genre-bending mix of lyric prose, science fiction, horror, and visual collage exploring the erotic undercurrents of American perceptions of Japanese culture and identity.
Big City
A work of vignettes, verse, dialogues, monologues, and short stories. Alone, they are fragments. Together, they offer an otherworldly glimpse of the human condition and an evocative narrative of desire, loneliness, and startling beauty.
The Making Sense of Things
A collection of twelve stories that pulse with memory, magic, and myth. Glory and significance riot against the logic of living and the pall of tragedy.
The Ace of Lightning
A series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which triggered World War I.