Fiction Collective Two
@fictioncollective2
We are an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction, committed to finding fresh & experimental works, both through member-sponsored submissions and our two annual contests!
Got a book of prose? Send it our way - submissions open August 15th! Check out the guidelines & eligibilities : fc2.org/prizes/
2026 marks our Sukenick Contest's 20th Anniversary! 2019 winner Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi eventually became our final judge in 2023, choosing Vanessa Saunders' THE FLAT WOMAN... and Vanessa is our final judge for the contest this year -- submissions open August 15th! Learn more: fc2.org/prizes
COVER REVEAL for our 2025 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest Winner: WEIRDLY TUNED ANTENNAE by Radhika Singh, selected by Katie Jean Shinkle and Steven Dunn, coauthors of TANNERY BAY ! Learn more: fc2.org/authors/singh/
2026 marks our Sukenick Contest's 20th Anniversary! SARAH BLACKMAN offers the first reflection in a series from our past winners ✨ We've also published Blackman's novel HEX (2016), & she's on our Editorial Board! ❤️🔥 Learn more about our contest & prize: fc2.org/prizes
SPOKANE! Go see our 2025 Doctorow Prize winner Karen An-hwei Lee @ 7:30 in the Mudd Chapel at Whitworth University. ( Preorder her winning book MARIMO, MON AMOUR now! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366218... )
One month from today, our contests open! ⭐️ In addition to publication, the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize Awards $15,000, and the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest awards $3,000 fc2.org/prizes/
Stock up on your summer (or fall) reads today! www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
Submissions for our annual Innovative Fiction Prize & Contest open next month! fc2.org/prizes/
Continuing to celebrate our Collective community, delighted to be an imprint of University of Alabama Press! Here are the titles authors published with us, and then, what prize they judged! Learn more: fc2.org/prizes
As a small, not-for-profit publisher run by authors since 1974, it's not uncommon for our contest and prize winners to become judges! ✨Check out the full constellation on our prizes page ✨ Collective ? Collective ✅ fc2.org/prizes
Our 2025 Doctorow Prize winner Karen An-hwei Lee on MARIMO, MON AMOUR (coming this fall) in @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ read more: yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
* bookmarks this contest lickity split: fc2.org/prizes *
“When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace!" ~ ~ ~ We take this as a sign to read more : www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
COVER REVEAL for our 2025 Doctorow Prize Winner MARIMO, MON AMOUR by Karen An-hwei Lee, selected by K-Ming Chang! Preorder here: uapress.ua.edu/978157366218...
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/
One of our great annual book prizes, judged this year by @khadijahqueen.com ! Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/
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/
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/