Prizes
Every year FC2 awards the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.
2024 Winners
Low-Risk Activities, by J Efron, winner of the 2024 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
Trying to Be, by John Haskell, winner of the 2024 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize
Recent Titles
Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him
A haunting reimagining of Billy the Kid — myth, violence, and regret collide in a lyrical coming-of-age story woven with history, legend, and the omnipresence of birds
Afterlife
A kaleidoscopic meditation on grief, memory, and the uncanny, where dreams, histories, and forgotten encyclopedias blur the line between life and afterlife
Thanatographies
A haunting, poetic excavation of memory, the nocturnal imagination, and a search for new forms of language to act upon legacies of violence and erasure
Daydreamers
What remains when fiction forgets it's fiction and when the story you’re translating becomes your own
Low-Risk Activities
Twenty-two uncanny stories that feel like dispatches from a future already here—and already unraveling
Trying to Be
With lyrical precision and aching intimacy, Trying to Be moves through history, memory, and the performance of ephemeral identity