📚 A literary alternative since 1974. ANNUAL CONTEST & PRIZE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS UNTIL NOVEMBER 1ST ! (IG & Bluesky & Tiktok @ fictioncollective2) 🌅
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NOW is the time! Send us your manuscripts of prose that don't fit elsewhere....
in addition to publication, the Sukenick Contest awards $3,000 and the Doctorow Prize Awards $15,00 (those with 3+ books published in any genre are eligible).
Submit: fc2.org/prizes
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Preorder COUCH PEOPLE by Will Burns ~ A darkly comic descent into Arkansas’s surreal criminal underworld through the eyes of a hapless, debt‑ridden hypochondriac. fc2.org/authors/burns/#couch…
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fc2.org/prizes THE SUKENICK CONTEST awards $3,000 & publication, with final judge Vanessa Saunders! THE DOCTOROW PRIZE awards $15,000 & publication, with final judge Khadijah Queen ~this prize is exclusively open to writers with at least *3* books published in any genre!
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Be like @BigOtherMag and get your copy! uapress.ua.edu/9781573662185…
Received today: @KarenAnhweiLee's MARIMO, MON AMOUR (@FCtwo), which features "Einspänner," which we published in 2025! Ka-pow!
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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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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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Have you submitted your book yet to our annual Sukenick Contest, awarding $3,000 alongside publication? Learn more about Vanessa Saunders - this year's final judge! fc2.org/prizes
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Praise from Robert Boswell for COUCH PEOPLE by Will Burns, coming this November. Preorder now 🌪️ fc2.org/authors/burns/
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Rejecting the familiar arc of Western dystopia, Radhika Singh's WEIRDLY TUNED ANTENNAE imagines a postimperialist future rooted in collective struggle, internationalism, and the liberation of human potential. uapress.ua.edu/9781573662208… *Preorder our 2025 Sukenick Contest winner now*
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Our 2025 Doctorow Prize winner, @karenanhweilee's MARIMO, MON AMOUR is a surreal, contemplative novel set in the quarantined borough of Alphabet City, where a botched data migration leaves obscure poet Zinger Zingiber effectively erased from the record... uapress.ua.edu/9781573662185…
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We cannot WAIT to see the books you're submitting to the Doctorow Prize and Sukenick Contest and felt compelled to post this reel in solidarity with your writing process. Trust that final (final) draft! Submissions close November 1st! fc2.org/prizes
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NOW until November 1st, submit your book to our Doctorow Prize (awarding $15,000) or Sukenick Contest (awarding $3,000)! Learn more: fc2.org/prizes
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A technocratic collapse erases an obscure poet from existence, yet she and her pet moss ball refuse to disappear.... Get your copy of our 2025 Doctorow Prize Winner ~ MARIMO, MON AMOUR by @karenanhweilee : uapress.ua.edu/9781573662185…
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Learn more about our annual Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest, judged this year by Khadijah Queen ! The Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize is open too, judged by Vanessa Saunders! fc2.org/prizes
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