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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

@pizamapress ( loving that " / " 🔥 )

Aggressively editing a prose poetry / microfiction collection for 2027 release and loving the tedious process. What would Gordon Lish do?

TWO WEEKS! fc2.org/prizes

Poems in @BigOtherMag by @karenanhweilee, author of MARIMO, MON AMOUR, our 2025 Doctorow Prize winner : fc2.org/authors/lee/

2026 marks our Sukenick Contest's 20th Anniversary! THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD coauthor @sophieklahr offers this reflection in a series of thoughts from our past winners✨ ❤️‍🔥 Learn more about our contest & prize: fc2.org/prizes

2026 marks our Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest's 20th Anniversary! Here's Vanessa Saunders (this year's Sukenick final judge!) on why FC2 was a perfect home for her winning book✨ Learn more about our legacy's contest, and all its past winners: fc2.org/prizes

Thank you @pizamapress ! We love you too!

ten experimental books (novels, short stories, tiny fictions) from one of our favorite presses @FCtwo

2026 marks our Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest's 20th Anniversary! Margo Berdeshevsky offers these warm thoughts on what it's like to be part our community✨ Learn more about our legacy's contest, and all its past winners: fc2.org/prizes

Yes! Learn more about Karen An-Hwei Lee & her forthcoming book MARIMO, MON AMOUR, winner of the 2025 Doctorow Prize fc2.org/authors/lee/

take this one-day-only class with THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD coauthor @sophieklahr !

Got a book of prose? Send it our way, starting 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 this year! 📷 Learn more about the contest's legacy: 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! uapress.ua.edu/9781573662185/… )

Our 2022 Doctorow Prize winner WAYS TO DISAPPEAR by Victorica Lancelotta is a finalist in literary fiction for @KirkusReviews Indie Awards! kirkusreviews.com/news-and-featu…

Radhika Singh's WEIRDLY TUNED ANTENNAE, our 2025 Sukenick Contest winner, is of @ChicagoRevBooks most anticipated fall reads! chireviewofbooks.com/2026/07/15/our…

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/

Don't miss out on our sale! uapress.ua.edu/search-results…

Submissions for our annual Innovative Fiction Prize & Contest open next month! fc2.org/prizes/