FC2 has selected Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi as the final judge for the 2023 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi is the author of The Book of Kane and Margaret (FC2) and Disintegration Made Plain and Easy (1913 Press). He teaches at Western Washington University.
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days
White Wedding
An enigmatic woman wanders from a pleasure mansion to a backyard wedding, upending the lives of everyone present
Swimming With Dead Stars
A hypnotic sojourn of planetary proportions through the terrestrial contingencies of bodies, health, poverty, and salvation
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