📚 A literary alternative since 1974. ANNUAL CONTEST & PRIZE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS UNTIL NOVEMBER 1ST ! (IG & Bluesky & Tiktok @ fictioncollective2) 🌅
Winston-Salem, NC
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New @karenanhweilee novel is out! Me, blurbing:
"What starts off as a plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne ...
Happy Pub day to MARIMO, MON AMOUR by @karenanhweilee, our 2025 winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, selected by K-Ming Chang! Get your copy: uapress.ua.edu/9781573662185…
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Buy some cool books!
Our summer sale ends on August 31st ! Check out our catalogue: uapress.ua.edu/search-result…
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But seriously you should be reading DAYDREAMERS, still the book of the moment imo
( Pssst ! Get excited! ⬇️ & check out @alvinlu's DAYDREAMERS in the meantime fc2.org/authors/lu/ )
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We're kicking off the morning with another edition of our #SFWPAuthorRecs series, this time with Jess Bowers - author of HORSE SHOW! buff.ly/D8oWZeb
đź“– Currently Reading:
Trying To Be by John Haskell (@FCtwo)
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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First page has me going, yes, yes, yes, please.
Curtis White co-founded FC2 in 1989, and his newest book, ON RESISTANCE: A MANIFESTO - available now from @melvillehouse - includes reflections on Fiction Collective and FC2 among other organs of resistance! Read an excerpt! fc2.org/the-fiction-correcti…
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White is a living archive of pre-conglomerate publishing, his perspective worth taking in. Below, the late Ron Sukenick, an FC2 founder with whom I had many spirited debates about "alternative" literature in that time.
Curtis White co-founded FC2 in 1989, and his newest book, ON RESISTANCE: A MANIFESTO - available now from @melvillehouse - includes reflections on Fiction Collective and FC2 among other organs of resistance! Read an excerpt! fc2.org/the-fiction-correcti…
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Yes please
Preorder MARIMO, MON AMOUR by @karenanhweilee, winner of our 2025 Doctorow Prize ! fc2.org/authors/lee/
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with code AM250 at checkout, today & tomorrow only, get 50% off my book THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD (@FCtwo) uapress.ua.edu/9781573662031…
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Two great novellas, an x-ray vision into the problems of gender & economics & our sentimental visions of the western past with all its folksy ruins, troubling & clarifying the murky lenses with which we sometimes view things like prosperity, inheritance, property, and bodies.
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Great book. Ben Marcus, from his foreword: "What marks this severe book is an astounding level of discipline in the prose."
We're celebrating all our LGBTQIA+ authors this Pride Month! Check out Joanna Ruocco's ANOTHER GOVERNESS / THE LEAST BLACKSMITH. Stark and vibrant, the two halves of this sutured book expose the Frankenstein-like scars of the assemblage we call “human.”
fc2.org/authors/ruocco/#anot…
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Fyi: You can read it with Shame as well as for Pride, if that's what you're into.
For Pride Month, why not read @stephen_beachy's epic, capacious, sinuous tale, GLORY HOLE! It is about AIDS, meth, porn, fake biographies, street outreach, the study of Arabic verb forms, Polish transgender modernists, obsession, and future life forms.... fc2.org/authors/beachy/
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Saw this just in time for Pride <3
from THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD (@FCtwo) sophieklahr.org/#/thereisonl…
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Fascinating book, especially if you are interested in the fragmentary and elusive ground of thought and identity.
Thanatographies by Yanara Friedland @FCtwo
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Lockdown-years pub from @FCtwo, kind of identity-anchored, free-jazz headtrip that defined Black Arts (and rarely seen since), serpentine sentences circling in on themes of sex (Black, Asian) and death (capital punishment). Heavy and ecstatic reading if that's what you're after.
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Thanatographies by Yanara Friedland @FCtwo
I float around in thought and then recognize that the thought is a small root, part of a planetarium, a voracious consciousness.
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corey zeller & i wrote a book that won this contest, & working with @FCtwo has been truly an excellent experience! submit your manuscript!
( here's our book, THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD: sophieklahr.org/#/thereisonl… )
2027 will mark *twenty years* of FC2 celebrating uncommon prose with the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest! Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/#sukenick
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Last four reads
Rivers and Mountains by John Ashbery
Conversations with Extinct Animals by Patrick Lawler @FCtwo
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley at New York Review of Books
The Ice Shirt by William T. Vollmann @penguinusa
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Fond memories of each of the Sukenick Prize finalist manuscripts. So good and so strange. Thanks to everyone who sent something. Whenever I go through a submissions pile I'm reminded this is where the real work—keeping literature vital and (very important) weird—is happening.
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Congratulations to @FCtwo contest winners Sophia Terazawa (Tetra Nova!) and Joe Fletcher, whose The Chimeras is my personal find of the year—and will be yours too—destined to be a classic of weird experimental horror and keystone for the new wave of UFO novels.
Have you heard the news about our official 2026 winners?
fc2.org/terazawa-2026-doctor…
fc2.org/fletcher-2026-sukeni…
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It's an honor to be named a finalist! Thanks, @FCtwo, and congrats to Sophia Terazawa.
Congratulations to our finalists in the annual Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize won this year by Sophia Terazawa for CURSE HIM, selected by Kazim Ali ! fc2.org/terazawa-2026-doctor…
