remember: girls don't want boys! girls want cool books from FC2! 💙📚 #booksky

NOW until July 5th! Get your summer reads (or fall - sale includes preorders!) www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...

One of our great annual book prizes, judged this year by Vanessa Saunders, who won the Sukenick Contest in 2023 for her book THE FLAT WOMAN! Learn more abut our contests here: fc2.org/prizes/

"The music felt peripheral, as if we were taking in only a side glance of it, while its whole momentous bulk hovered just beyond reach." Read "Struck," an excerpt from Angela Woodward's AFTERLIFE in @hfr.bsky.social : heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/06/29/a...

One of our great annual book prizes, judged this year by @khadijahqueen.com ! Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

FC2 fam overlaps with @gasherpress.bsky.social again! 🌠 Get THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD coauthor @sophieklahr.bsky.social's chapbook DRIFTWOOD in the spring, and TANNERY BAY coauthor Katie Jean Shinkle's chapbook TRANSFERENCE now! www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

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/ruoc...

Coming September 2026, our 2025 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction winner: MARIMO, MON AMOUR by Karen An-hwei Lee, selected by K-Ming Chang. Learn more: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366218...

Pride Month Continues! We recommend TANNERY BAY, coauthored by Katie Jean Shinkle and Stephen Dunn. The powerful #OwnVoices narrative is a captivating tale of Black Joy and Queer Joy in an enchanted time-looped town. Get your copy: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366205...

Our INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS Anthology coeditor @khadijahqueen.com and Vanessa Saunders, winner of our 2023 Sukenick Contest for THE FLAT WOMAN, are our judges this year! Learn More about our annual contest and prize: fc2.org/prizes/

For Pride Month, why not read @livingjelly.bsky.social'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/beac...

One of our featured LGBTQIA+ authors for Pride Month is Lucy Corin ! Learn all about her work here: fc2.org/authors/corin/

Take a course with coauthor of THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD @sophieklahr.bsky.social 🖤

our ANNUAL CONTEST & PRIZE OPEN in TWO MONTHS exactly! fc2.org/prizes/

One of our featured LGBTQIA+ authors for Pride Month is Vi Khi Nao, whose first book with us, A BRIEF ALPHABET OF TORTURE, won the 2016 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest! Learn more about her works with us: fc2.org/authors/nao/

Check out this 🧵 (1/6 pix!) Our annual Innovative Fiction Prize and Contest will be open August 15 - November 1st ! Final judge for the Sukenick Contest is Vanessa Saunders, and final judge for the Doctorow Prize is Khadijah Queen. fc2.org/prizes

In Karen An-Hwei Lee's MARIMO, MON AMOUR, a technocratic collapse erases an obscure poet from existence. She and her pet moss ball refuse to disappear. 🌌 Selected by K-Ming Chang, we'll have this 2025 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize winner ready for you this fall! 🌌

ANNOUNCING our final judges for our 2027 contest and and prize! We're delighted to have these incredible writers - both Collective members - usher new innovative fiction into our FC2 family. Learn more: fc2.org/2027-prize-j...

We are announcing the judges for our 2027 Sukenick Contest and Doctorow Prize TOMORROW!

Ray Levy's SCHOOL is one of our featured titles for Pride Month ✨ Read the full review at @bigothermag.bsky.social : bigother.com/2025/02/12/i...

Stock up on FC2 this summer 🌱 Offer includes preorders for Fall releases including 2025 Sukenick Contest Winner WEIRDLY TUNED ANTENNAE by Radhika Singh, and 2025 Doctorow Prize Winner MARIMO, MON AMOUR by Karen An-hwei Lee! Shop now: www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...

WHITE WEDDING by Kathleen Woods is one of our featured books for Pride Month ✨ With an edge of humor & horror, Woods explores if —& how—we consent to our own desires. www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366192...

Happy Pride ! We'll be highlighting books & pieces from our LGBTQIA community all month. Here's a piece from THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD, our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner by @sophieklahr.bsky.social and Corey Zeller: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...

No longer an "emerging poet" or qualify for that " [insert genre] Debut" list ? NEVER FEAR! We have the contest for you, opening August 15th! fc2.org/prizes

As a writer, I spend a lot of time navigating failure…failure of projects, ideas, schedules, timelines, projections… and the list goes on. Building empowering relationships to failure is the only way we can keep going in this world. Here’s hoping you are offering yourself grace around your failures.

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Sign up to get online class offerings & whatnot from our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD coauthor @sophieklahr.bsky.social :

Have you been following the latest from Vi Khi Nao (SWIMMING WITH DEAD STARS) ? Get into it! : mariegazeau.substack.com/p/lectrice-v... (scroll down for english translation)

Lockdown-years pub from @fictioncollective2.bsky.social, kind of identity-anchored, free-jazz headtrip that defined Black Arts (& rarely seen since), serpentine sentences circling in on themes of sex (Black, Asian) and death (capital punishment). Heavy & ecstatic reading if that's what you're after.

We'll announce on judges on June 9th! The Sukenick awards publication & $3,000 ~ The Doctorow awards publication & $15,000 ~ Learn more ! fc2.org/prizes/

Take a 5 session summer course with the co-author of our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ✨

JUDGES for our annual contests will be announced June 9th! Read up on our contests now: fc2.org/prizes

Rad! Read the rest of DAYDREAMERS here: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...

Get your manuscripts together! fc2.org/prizes Judges will be announced in June 🔥

Congratulations to our 2026 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize winner Sophia Terazawa, celebrated for CURSE HIM, forthcoming 2027. lithub.com/here-are-the...

@fictioncollective2.bsky.social is such a great press ~ Corey Zeller & I won this contest a few years back for THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD & had a great experience -- poets, get your weird prose together!

Save the date, and ready your manuscripts! fc2.org/prizes/

Very advance notice, but if you're in Los Angeles, I'll be doing the lauch of Phantom Limb at Skylight Books at 7 pm on October 13th. More details as they come available. Would love to see you! I'll be reading at City Lights in San Francisco as well, and am in the process of planning a few others.

I have a short book involving demons, substituted identity and general corporate insanity coming out with PM Press next year. If you're interested, I'd encourage you to preorder. I love how it turned out. Plus, there's a picture of me walking the picket line for the Writer's Guild on the cover...

2027 will mark *twenty years* of FC2 celebrating uncommon prose with the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest! Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/#suke...

We want your innovative fiction! (starting on August 15th!) Learn more about our annual contests : fc2.org/prizes/

Or just order Daydreamers here and support a great AAPI bookstore and community hub on the San Francisco Chinatown scene: www.onwaverly.com/products/day...

August is sooner than you think! Get your manuscripts ready, and learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

San Francisco! Here are some great Bookstores to visit ~ and while there, pick up @alvinlu.bsky.social's DAYDREAMERS!

August will come sooner than you think! Learn more about the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize : fc2.org/prizes/

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.

Have you heard the news about our excellent finalists for this year's annual contests? Go seek out their work!

Congratulations to @fictioncollective2.bsky.social 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-202... fc2.org/fletcher-202...

New Interview! Yanara Friedland speaks on THANATOGRAPHIES for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/thanatograph...