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Fiction Collective Two

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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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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

🧵ONE MONTH LEFT to submit to our contests! Follow the thread here to learn everything you need to know! fc2.org/prizes

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 15h

Our 2024 Doctorow Prize winner TRYING TO BE by John Haskell blurs the line between criticism & confession, art history & personal inventory. www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366214...

Official release Oct 15 & Reading at Unnameable Books (NYC) this Saturday Oct 11 @ 6:30! unnameablebooks.square.site

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 1d

CLOSING IN THREE WEEKS!
@alvinlu.bsky.social judges the Sukenick Contest, open to all - awards publication & $3,000 ; Kazim Ali judges the Doctorow Prize, open to those with 3 books previously published in any genre, awards publication & $15,000 ⭐️ Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 2d

NEW YORK CITY! Go see John Haskell, author of TRYING TO BE, at Unnameable Books this Saturday Oct. 11th at 6:30.
unnameablebooks.square.site

Get a copy of Haskell's 2024 Doctorow Prize winning book: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366214...

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 4d

New work from @sophieklahr.bsky.social, 2022 Sukenick Contest winner for THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD, co-authored with Corey Zeller. 👻 Our Sukenick Contest and Doctorow Prize are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS until NOVEMBER FIRST !! Send your poetic prose to us! fc2.org/prizes

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 4d

heck yeah

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 5d

New work by Joanna Ruocco in @bigothermag.bsky.social
Have you read her book ANOTHER GOVERNESS / THE LEAST BLACKSMITH: A DIPTYCH ? Now is the time: fc2.org/authors/ruoc...

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

Read these new microfictions by Joanna Ruocco in Big Other!
And have you read her book ANOTHER GOVERNESS / THE LEAST BLACKSMITH: A DIPTYCH ? Now is the time: fc2.org/authors/ruoc...

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

🧵ONE MONTH LEFT to submit to our contests!

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

🧵ONE MONTH LEFT to submit to our contests!

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

🧵ONE MONTH LEFT to submit to our contests!

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

🧵ONE MONTH LEFT to submit to our contests!

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

🧵ONE MONTH LEFT to submit to our contests!

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 6d

🧵ONE MONTH LEFT to submit to our contests! Follow the thread here to learn everything you need to know! fc2.org/prizes

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 7d

We want your book that doesn't fit in a box!
@alvinlu.bsky.social is the final judge for our 2026 contest ~ learn more at fc2.org/prizes ~ SUBMISSIONS CLOSE in One Month !

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 8d

Published 3 books in any genre, and have a prose manuscript humming to be published? Submit to our Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize!

Kazim Ali is the 2026 final judge!
fc2.org/prizes

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 9d

REMINDER!
fc2.org/prizes/

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 12d

An excerpt from John Haskell's 2024 Doctorow Prize winner TRYING TO BE in @harpers.bsky.social :https://harpers.org/archive/2025/09/blow-me-away-john-haskell-trying-to-be-blow-up/

Official release in October ~ Preorder now with code BAMA at checkout for 30% off: fc2.org/authors/hask...

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 13d

Upcoming opportunity to work with our INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS anthology co-editor @khadijahqueen.com !

( Do you have your copy of INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS? fc2.org/anthologies/... )

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 13d

New poem from our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD co-author @sophieklahr.bsky.social in Alaska Quarterly Review.
( Poets writing prose ~ this is your sign to submit to our contests: fc2.org/prizes/ )

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 14d

6 WEEKS LEFT TO SUBMIT your manuscript of innovative fiction to one of our two annual contests!
~ The Sukenick Contest awards publication + $3,000
~ The Doctorow Prize awards publication + $15,000 (author must have 3 books in any genre previously published)
FULL GUIDELINES HERE: fc2.org/prizes/

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 15d

LOW-RISK ACTIVITIES by J Efron opens on a faux-memoir in which a gender-fluid, possibly immortal narrator navigates trauma, desire, & the politics of being unclassifiable — part myth, part autofiction, & entirely singular.

Our 2024 Sukenick Contest winner: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366213...

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 16d

Read an excerpt from John Haskell's forthcoming TRYING TO BE, winner of the 2024 Doctorow Prize, in @thebaffler.com : thebaffler.com/fiction/my-u...

Release in October ~ Preorder now! fc2.org/authors/hask...

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 17d

Check it out!

Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 17d

"Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional."

If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!

Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel

The book is about Chinese literary exiles in California. There’s a scandal and a roadtrip as they investigate and look for a mysterious woman who was involved in a murder of one of their friends.

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 21d

Did you submit your book yet? Only *one and a half months left* until our annual submission window closes!

Kazim Ali is the final judge for our Doctorow Prize, and @alvinlu.bsky.social is the final judge for our Sukenick Contest:
fc2.org/prizes/