Before a remarkable run of novels from Eugene Lim's Ellipsis Press, KAREN AN-HWEI LEE's sui generis prose was a regular on Your Impossible Voice's website. Happy to have her back with a part from her new novel Marimo, Mon Amour, which just won Fiction Collective 2's Doctorow Prize—to be published in 2026.

Here's some NEWS about our annual book contests! Submissions open August 15th! fc2.org/prizes/

Mark your calendars & get your manuscripts ready, contests opens on August 15th! Read all about eligibility & guidelines: fc2.org/prizes/

It’s so confusing…

Read a super review of claire bateman's THE PILLOW MUSEUM in New Ohio Review : newohioreview.org/2025/06/01/boo…

Don’t think I’ve ever been a judge of *anything* so this is a first. Take advantage of my gullibility and naïveté and send something for FC2’s Sukenick Prize? Maybe get a book published?

Learn all about our annual contests, our 2026 judges Alvin Lu and Kazim Ali, and more! fc2.org/2026-prize-jud…

For 50+ years, FC2's sense of self has always aligned with the LGBTQIA+ community: we reject conformity, we refuse to be quiet, we celebrate complexity, & we've never swayed to the fickleness of culture. 💪 PRIDE WAS A RIOT; pride month = every month. fc2.org/authors/

Submissions for WANTED [whatiwanted (dot) org] are now open exclusively to writers seeking their 1st publication

ASHEVILLE, don't miss out on seeing claire bateman, author of THE PILLOW MUSEUM, next week! (Get your copy of this great work of flash fictions, micro-essays, and contemporary fables ~ uapress.ua.edu/9781573662093/… )

*One day left* to get 50% off poetry by co-author of our 2022 Ronald Sukenick Contest winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ! Read sophie klahr's poetry collection from Univ Nebraska Press alongside her winning book co-authored with Corey Zeller: uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...

Been struggling with where to submit yr non-traditional prose manuscript...? Got pictorial whatnot within? No problem. Fragments? Love it. Line breaks? Bring 'em. Collaboratively written? Rock on. Cash poor? We've got fee waivers. CONTEST OPEN 8/15: fc2.org/prizes/

Our book contests open on FRIDAY! Learn more about which contest has expanded eligibilities & which has doubled its cash prize! Kazim Ali & Alvin Lu serve as final judges! fc2.org/prizes/