Fiction Collective Two
@fictioncollective2.bsky.social
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! https://fc2.org/
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Happy Day to Purchase an Indigenous cookbook like Sean Sherman's "Turtle Island: Foods & Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America." (We're not associated w/ this author or press, this is just what our socials manager is doing today! )
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712577...
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Turtle Island by Sean Sherman, Kate Nelson, Kristin Donnelly: 9780593579237 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy Day to Purchase an Indigenous cookbook like Sean Sherman's "Turtle Island: Foods & Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America." (We're not associated w/ this author or press, this is just what our socials manager is doing today! )
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712577...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712577...
While you're waiting for Angela Woodward's AFTERLIFE (March 2026) read her 2015 Doctorow Prize-winning NATURAL WONDERS, which mixes mythology, popular fiction, and a misfired romance with the story of the earth hurtling around the sun. Learn more: fc2.org/authors/wood...
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
While you're waiting for Angela Woodward's AFTERLIFE (March 2026) read her 2015 Doctorow Prize-winning NATURAL WONDERS, which mixes mythology, popular fiction, and a misfired romance with the story of the earth hurtling around the sun. Learn more: fc2.org/authors/wood...
Praise from Joanna Ruocco on Pamela Ryder's DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM ~ this marks Ryder's third work we're delighted to be publishing, now available for PREORDER ~ Coming January 2026 fc2.org/authors/ryde...
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Praise from Joanna Ruocco on Pamela Ryder's DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM ~ this marks Ryder's third work we're delighted to be publishing, now available for PREORDER ~ Coming January 2026 fc2.org/authors/ryde...
🥰 !! & we've got 50 years of options! fc2.org/authors/
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🥰 !! & we've got 50 years of options! fc2.org/authors/
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i know i have some moots here who love k-ming chang so y'all should know she was the judge for this prize! exciting!! this'll def be one of my most highly anticipated books of 2026
Read an interview with Karen An-hwei Lee at @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ and look forward to her Doctorow prize-winning MARIMO, MON AMOUR, coming Fall 2026.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
i know i have some moots here who love k-ming chang so y'all should know she was the judge for this prize! exciting!! this'll def be one of my most highly anticipated books of 2026
Read an interview with Karen An-hwei Lee at @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ and look forward to her Doctorow prize-winning MARIMO, MON AMOUR, coming Fall 2026.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Read an interview with Karen An-hwei Lee at @yourimpossiblevoice.com ~ and look forward to her Doctorow prize-winning MARIMO, MON AMOUR, coming Fall 2026.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/karen-an-hwe...
More about Elisabeth Sheffield here~one of our Collective members with multiple FC2 works, incl. a role as one editor of the 1996 CHICK LIT 2: NO CHICK VICS-"voices in women’s fiction whose stories do not involve trauma that comes from the outside." Compelling time capsule!
fc2.org/authors/shef...
fc2.org/authors/shef...
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
More about Elisabeth Sheffield here~one of our Collective members with multiple FC2 works, incl. a role as one editor of the 1996 CHICK LIT 2: NO CHICK VICS-"voices in women’s fiction whose stories do not involve trauma that comes from the outside." Compelling time capsule!
fc2.org/authors/shef...
fc2.org/authors/shef...
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Extended section from Pamela Ryder's forthcoming @fictioncollective2.bsky.social book Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid appeared back in Socrates on the Beach #3.
Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.
socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.
socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Extended section from Pamela Ryder's forthcoming @fictioncollective2.bsky.social book Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid appeared back in Socrates on the Beach #3.
Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.
socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
Be careful with that prose. It will cut you.
socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
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Pleased to have an essay in Broken Record, Gender Abuse in Academia with @rcolesworthy.bsky.social . This is a necessary conversation with honest, breathtaking testimonies & diverse voices. Available on SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social @unboundedition.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social
Been meaning to share this for a while: BROKEN RECORD: GENDERED ABUSE IN ACADEMIA ft 40+ contributors & THE Sara Ahmed from @sunypress.bsky.social.
Because higher ed is not a bastion of the radical left. It's A WORKPLACE where abuses happen all the time & it's NOT OK. sunypress.edu/Books/B/Brok...
Because higher ed is not a bastion of the radical left. It's A WORKPLACE where abuses happen all the time & it's NOT OK. sunypress.edu/Books/B/Brok...
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Pleased to have an essay in Broken Record, Gender Abuse in Academia with @rcolesworthy.bsky.social . This is a necessary conversation with honest, breathtaking testimonies & diverse voices. Available on SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social @unboundedition.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social
Our first 2026 book, DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM, is by Pamela Ryder, Collective member since 2008! Check out PARADISE FIELD, interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot and his relationship with his daughter. Learn more: fc2.org/authors/ryde...
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Our first 2026 book, DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM, is by Pamela Ryder, Collective member since 2008! Check out PARADISE FIELD, interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot and his relationship with his daughter. Learn more: fc2.org/authors/ryde...
#TBT ~ a fragment from Kirstin Allio's DOUBLE-CHECK FOR SLEEPING CHILDREN, winner of the 2024 Catherine Doctorow Prize ~ a collection of twenty short stories that probe the shadowy intersections of memory, desire, and identity. Get your copy: fc2.org/authors/allio/
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#TBT ~ a fragment from Kirstin Allio's DOUBLE-CHECK FOR SLEEPING CHILDREN, winner of the 2024 Catherine Doctorow Prize ~ a collection of twenty short stories that probe the shadowy intersections of memory, desire, and identity. Get your copy: fc2.org/authors/allio/
Here's some reflections from Mireille Juchau on Yanara Friedland's THANATOGRAPHIES, coming in March 2026, and available now for PREORDER ✨ fc2.org/authors/frie...
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Here's some reflections from Mireille Juchau on Yanara Friedland's THANATOGRAPHIES, coming in March 2026, and available now for PREORDER ✨ fc2.org/authors/frie...
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fc2 is maybe my fav literary press in the u.s. they publish so much experimental, challenging, structurally unusual fiction most other places won't touch. if you've noticed me recently screaming about being *thoroughly* blown away by 'messiahs' by marc anthony richardson -- that's an fc2 novel! 💙📚
What author-run, not-for-profit, subversive press doesn't deserve more attention? ( Thank you 😘 )
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November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
fc2 is maybe my fav literary press in the u.s. they publish so much experimental, challenging, structurally unusual fiction most other places won't touch. if you've noticed me recently screaming about being *thoroughly* blown away by 'messiahs' by marc anthony richardson -- that's an fc2 novel! 💙📚
What author-run, not-for-profit, subversive press doesn't deserve more attention? ( Thank you 😘 )
www.instagram.com/fictioncolle...
x.com/FCtwo
www.instagram.com/fictioncolle...
x.com/FCtwo
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
What author-run, not-for-profit, subversive press doesn't deserve more attention? ( Thank you 😘 )
www.instagram.com/fictioncolle...
x.com/FCtwo
www.instagram.com/fictioncolle...
x.com/FCtwo
#TBT our release last November: 2023 Sukenick Contest winner THE FLAT WOMAN by Vanessa Saunders, which blends dystopia, magical realism, and biting satire to ask: who gets to call themselves a good person in a world built on systemic destruction? www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366208...
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#TBT our release last November: 2023 Sukenick Contest winner THE FLAT WOMAN by Vanessa Saunders, which blends dystopia, magical realism, and biting satire to ask: who gets to call themselves a good person in a world built on systemic destruction? www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366208...
Praise from Jonathan Lethem on TRYING TO BE, our 2024 Doctorow Prize Winning book by John Haskell. Get your copy: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366214...
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Praise from Jonathan Lethem on TRYING TO BE, our 2024 Doctorow Prize Winning book by John Haskell. Get your copy: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366214...
Our first 2026 book - DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM is by Pamela Ryder, a Collective member since 2008! Learn about her previous books such as CORRECTION OF DRIFT, which imagines the lives behind the headlines of the tragic Lindbergh baby kidnapping. www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366805...
Correction of Drift
Explores the lives behind the headlines of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, evoking anew the scope of tragedy through the vision of literary fiction. It wa...
www.uapress.ua.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Our first 2026 book - DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM is by Pamela Ryder, a Collective member since 2008! Learn about her previous books such as CORRECTION OF DRIFT, which imagines the lives behind the headlines of the tragic Lindbergh baby kidnapping. www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366805...
Coming in February 2026: DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM: THE LIVES OF BILLY THE KID, by Pamela Ryder. Keep an eye out for this haunting reimagining of Billy the Kid...
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Coming in February 2026: DAYBREAK BIRDSONG ALWAYS WAKES HIM: THE LIVES OF BILLY THE KID, by Pamela Ryder. Keep an eye out for this haunting reimagining of Billy the Kid...
Some compelling work here from @snrogoff.bsky.social, author of THE CASTLE, A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel! fc2.org/authors/rogo...
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some compelling work here from @snrogoff.bsky.social, author of THE CASTLE, A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel! fc2.org/authors/rogo...
Take an afternoon seminar on November 16th with @sophieklahr.bsky.social, co-author of our 2022 Sukenick Contest Winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Take an afternoon seminar on November 16th with @sophieklahr.bsky.social, co-author of our 2022 Sukenick Contest Winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...
Take pleasure in the formally daring and emotionally disarming ~ get your copy of LOW-RISK ACTIVITIES by J Efron, our 2024 Sukenick Contest Winner fc2.org/authors/efro...
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Take pleasure in the formally daring and emotionally disarming ~ get your copy of LOW-RISK ACTIVITIES by J Efron, our 2024 Sukenick Contest Winner fc2.org/authors/efro...
VOTE where you are! And consider donating (whatever you can!) to support our mission! (FC2 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your donation may be tax deductible! ) fc2.org/donate/
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
VOTE where you are! And consider donating (whatever you can!) to support our mission! (FC2 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your donation may be tax deductible! ) fc2.org/donate/
That's all, folks! ❣️
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
That's all, folks! ❣️
✨Finalists will be chosen by the FC2 Editorial Board, & the winning manuscripts will be chosen from finalists by final judges Kazim Ali (the Doctorow Prize, awarding $15,000) & @alvinlu.bsky.social (the Sukenick Contest, awarding $3,000). Get guidelines & submit! : fc2.org/prizes
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
✨Finalists will be chosen by the FC2 Editorial Board, & the winning manuscripts will be chosen from finalists by final judges Kazim Ali (the Doctorow Prize, awarding $15,000) & @alvinlu.bsky.social (the Sukenick Contest, awarding $3,000). Get guidelines & submit! : fc2.org/prizes