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.
White Wedding
An enigmatic woman wanders from a pleasure mansion to a backyard wedding, upending the lives of everyone present
Messiahs
A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice
By the Time You Read This
A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation
Meaningful Work
A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction
Horses Dream of Money
A visceral, stark, and deadpan collection of stories that brilliantly fuse humor with horror
The Airship: Incantations
A hypnotic tale of a Jewish refugee from Europe and his three years stranded aboard the Vasari