Fiction Collective Two

Read an interview with Karen An-hwei Lee at @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ and look forward to her Doctorow prize-winning MARIMO, MON AMOUR, coming Fall 2026.
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More about Elisabeth Sheffield here~one of our Collective members with multiple FC2 works, incl. a role as one editor of the 1996 CHICK LIT 2: NO CHICK VICS-"voices in women’s fiction whose stories do not involve trauma that comes from the outside." Compelling time capsule!

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Extended section from Pamela Ryder's forthcoming @fictioncollective2.bsky.social book Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid appeared back in Socrates on the Beach #3.

Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.

socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder

Pleased to have an essay in Broken Record, Gender Abuse in Academia with @rcolesworthy.bsky.social . This is a necessary conversation with honest, breathtaking testimonies & diverse voices. Available on SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social @unboundedition.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social

Our first 2026 book, DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM, is by Pamela Ryder, Collective member since 2008! Check out PARADISE FIELD, interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot and his relationship with his daughter. Learn more: fc2.org/authors/ryde...

#TBT ~ a fragment from Kirstin Allio's DOUBLE-CHECK FOR SLEEPING CHILDREN, winner of the 2024 Catherine Doctorow Prize ~ a collection of twenty short stories that probe the shadowy intersections of memory, desire, and identity. Get your copy: fc2.org/authors/allio/

Here's some reflections from Mireille Juchau on Yanara Friedland's THANATOGRAPHIES, coming in March 2026, and available now for PREORDER ✨ fc2.org/authors/frie...

😍🔥 thanks for reading & boosting!

fc2 is maybe my fav literary press in the u.s. they publish so much experimental, challenging, structurally unusual fiction most other places won't touch. if you've noticed me recently screaming about being *thoroughly* blown away by 'messiahs' by marc anthony richardson -- that's an fc2 novel! 💙📚

What author-run, not-for-profit, subversive press doesn't deserve more attention? ( Thank you 😘 )
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#TBT our release last November: 2023 Sukenick Contest winner THE FLAT WOMAN by Vanessa Saunders, which blends dystopia, magical realism, and biting satire to ask: who gets to call themselves a good person in a world built on systemic destruction? www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366208...

Praise from Jonathan Lethem on TRYING TO BE, our 2024 Doctorow Prize Winning book by John Haskell. Get your copy: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366214...

Correction of Drift Explores the lives behind the headlines of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, evoking anew the scope of tragedy through the vision of literary fiction.   It wa...

Our first 2026 book - DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM is by Pamela Ryder, a Collective member since 2008! Learn about her previous books such as CORRECTION OF DRIFT, which imagines the lives behind the headlines of the tragic Lindbergh baby kidnapping. www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366805...

Coming in February 2026: DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM: THE LIVES OF BILLY THE KID, by Pamela Ryder. Keep an eye out for this haunting reimagining of Billy the Kid...

Some compelling work here from @snrogoff.bsky.social, author of THE CASTLE, A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel! fc2.org/authors/rogo...

Take an afternoon seminar on November 16th with @sophieklahr.bsky.social, co-author of our 2022 Sukenick Contest Winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...

Take pleasure in the formally daring and emotionally disarming ~ get your copy of LOW-RISK ACTIVITIES by J Efron, our 2024 Sukenick Contest Winner fc2.org/authors/efro...

VOTE where you are! And consider donating (whatever you can!) to support our mission! (FC2 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your donation may be tax deductible! ) fc2.org/donate/

That's all, folks! ❣️

✨Finalists will be chosen by the FC2 Editorial Board, & the winning manuscripts will be chosen from finalists by final judges Kazim Ali (the Doctorow Prize, awarding $15,000) & @alvinlu.bsky.social (the Sukenick Contest, awarding $3,000). Get guidelines & submit! : fc2.org/prizes

If submission fees had you spooked, never fear! We have FEE WAIVERS for all in need. Tomorrow is your last day to send your work - Kazim Ali is final judge for the Doctorow Prize, and @alvinlu.bsky.social is our Sukenick Contest's final judge! Act now! fc2.org/prizes

My novel The Hell Screens is more Halloween material (comedy-horror in the manner of We Are Going to Eat You, I like to think), but my new one Daydreamers is the one you can get 31% off on, with promo code, as part of this sale which ends tomorrow.

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Don't let the deadline sneak by for our annual book prizes! Alongside publication, you could be awarded $3,000 (for the Sukenick Contest) or $15,000 (for the Doctorow Prize)! Kazim Ali judges the Doctorow & @alvinlu.bsky.social judges the Sukenick! Submit now! fc2.org/prizes

This is not a drill! Finish up those final touches & send us your manuscript! fc2.org/prizes

Our annual Innovative Fiction contests are closing on Saturday! Get your book published ( & enjoy the cash prize!) ! @alvinlu.bsky.social is the final judge for the Sukenick Contest, and Kazim Ali is final judge for the Doctorow Prize! fc2.org/prizes

This seasonal sale includes 2026 pre-order titles !
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Our annual contests close Saturday......... fc2.org/prizes
You know what to do!

Submissions for our two annual book contests close NEXT WEEK! You could win publication & either $3,000 or $15,000 (!!) ~ learn more about eligibility, guidelines, & our final judges: fc2.org/prizes

If you've been waiting for a sign to submit your manuscript to one of our two annual innovative fiction contests: this is your sign! FC2.org/prizes