Fiction Collective Two is pleased to announce Mac Wellman has won the third annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for LINDA PERDIDO. The prize includes publication by FC2 as well as $15,000. The judge was Percival Everett.
Fiction Collective Two is also pleased to announce Sarah Blackman has won this year’s FC2/Ronald Sukenick American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize for MOTHER BOX. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $1,000. The judge was Noy Holland.
The 2012 prizes will be open to submissions August 15 through November 1. Check the FC2 website for judges and details.
Check out the new review of Michael Martone’s Four for a Quarter. Reviewer Kathryn Houghton writes, “What makes Martone’s writing truly remarkable, however, is his use of and attention to language, especially when it becomes complex and seems on the verge of spinning out of control.”
FC2 authors Brian Conn and Joanna Ruocco would like to entrust several pairs of strangers with editing Birkensnake 6. More information can be found on the Birkensnake website. Applications are due July 15th, 2012.
Birkensnake is an irregularly published, imperfectly bound collection of fiction. In addition to print editions, Birkensnake issues 1-4 can be read online.
For those in the Long Island/NYC area, Rob Stephenson, Yuriy Tarnawsky, and Donald Breckenridge will be reading fiction at The Oracle Club. The reading will take place on May 2nd at 7:30 pm. Additional information can be found at The Oracle Club’s website.
The newest Fiction Correctives interview features David Porush. Check it out here.
Congratulations to Melanie Rae Thon who is the winner of the 2012 Gina Berriault Award. In celebration of this award, Melanie will read from her work in The Poetry Center of SFSU on May 2, 2012 at 7:00pm.
The Gina Berriault Award was established to annually honor a fiction writer whose work exemplifies the qualities that distinguish the novels and short stories of Gina Berriault.
Melanie Rae Thon’s most recent books are the novel, The Voice Of The River (FC2 2011), and In This Light: New and Selected Stories.
The newest Fiction Correctives interview features author Kit Reed. Her book Little Sisters of the Apocalypse was published by FC2/Black Ice Books. The interview features a remarkable excerpt from Little Sisters, as well as Kit’s loving recollections of Ron Sukenick and her musings on what it means to be “transgenred.” It’s an awesome interview! Check it out here.
Here’s more well-deserved praise for Melanie Rae Thon’s stunning novel, The Voice Of The River. Thon “binds binds our lives in hymnlike prose,” writes the reviewer.
I’m very happy to point you towards a wonderful interview with Sara Greenslit about her recent novel As If A Bird Flew By Me (FC2 2011). As If A Bird Flew By Me explores the impact of the Salem Witch Trials. Set in three time periods and straddling three genres (fiction, poetry, and memoir) Greenslit’s novel is truly a singular work, and this interview is truly a treat for devoted readers. Sara talks about the book, discusses the process of researching/writing, and responds to several beautiful excerpted passages from As If A Bird Flew By Me. The interview goes live today, published on the FC2 Blog; check it out here!
Lynn K. Kilpatrick is featured in the current installment of Fiction Correctives. In her interview, she talks about innovation as “the edge where fiction meets other forms.”