Fiction Collective 2

We're THRILLED to have expanded our Sukenick Prize money ( it has doubled! ) & to have expanded our Doctorow eligibility to those with three previously published books in ANY genre, not just fiction! Poets, Essayists, Writers Undefined, REJOICE! fc2.org/2026-prize-j...

Newest 13 Questions interview is out. With author Alvin Lu (@alvinlu) of the newly published novel Daydreamers (@FCtwo), which I am currently reading and really enjoying! Check it out: booksofsomesubstance.com/blog/13-questi…

We publish "Innovative Fiction"... but what does that mean?? Well, for example, here's a page from Patrick Lawler's CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS 🦴🔮👀 Dive deeper into this experimental narrative ! : fc2.org/authors/lawler…

Celebrate TANNERY BAY co-author & 2025 Sukenick Prize co-judge Katie Jean Shinkle's new chapbook TRANSFERENCE from @gasherpress with an online reading on August 2nd! Sign up: gasherpress.com

Writers, it’s almost time! 🗓️ The annual @FCtwo contests open AUGUST 15! Submit your boldest, most genre-defying fiction to the Sukenick & Doctorow Prizes. Be part of the future of fiction! 💥✍️ Learn more:🔗 tinyurl.com/9wfzhfsy #writingcontest #callforsubmissions #Writers

Check out this new review of @alvinlu's DAYDREAMERS ! - lifesheloves.com/my-asian-era/d…

Get a 30% Discount of our latest release by @alvinlu with Promo Code BAMA, via @UnivofALPress uapress.ua.edu/9781573662123/…

Happy Official Pub Day to @alvinlu's DAYDREAMERS! Get your copy of this mesmerizing work today! fc2.org/authors/lu/#da… ( For review copies, query to Samantha Huff-Robertson at [email protected] ~ we love being an imprint of @UnivofALPress ! )

Come hang out with me and @aliner in a few weeks—August 3 (American Time)—as we read from our books My Heresies and Daydreamers, at this online event hosted by the illustrious @NameofAuthor1. Register with the form below. A link to attend will be emailed to you.

A excerpt from BIO ME, the undefinable exclusive companion to Patrick Lawler's CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS. Head over to our blog to read the whole wild piece! fc2.org/bio-me/ ~ then order the novel for 30% off with code AWP at checkout! fc2.org/authors/lawler…

My new book, Body of Evidence, to be published in Oct by @PressUnbound. An experiment in writing about violence, it examines what can’t be said, what's dangerous/necessary to say, why some remain silent & what silence means in the face of survival #WritingCommunity @OSUCWA @FCtwo

To solve a love-triangle murder, a Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip with her friend’s son into the heart of the émigré Chinese literary world in @alvinlu's new novel DAYDREAMERS ~ get your copy via @UnivofALPress : uapress.ua.edu/9781573662123/…

Read this rad essay up at @nighttidemag from Victoria Hood - author of MY HAUNTED HOME (one of our past Sukenick Contest winners!) fc2.org/authors/hood/#… nighttidemag.com/2025/07/07/sin…

"As far as I am concerned, the ghost we were chasing was simply that, a specter haunting my father’s dreams. It tormented him enough that he felt compelled to exorcise it by writing this book." Read more from @alvinlu's novel DAYDREAMERS at @MinorLits ~ minorliteratures.com/2025/07/10/day…

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