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Amelia Gray is the second author to be featured in FC2’s interview series Fiction Correctives. Be sure to read the interview here. In it, Gray talks of spending all her imaginary dollars on FC2 and Dalkey Archive books, the literary cannon that strains its own boundaries, and the monumental force of Vanessa Place’s La Medusa (FC2). It’s a fantastic interview.

The first installment of Fiction Correctives, FC2’s newest blog endeavor, is available for your enjoyment. Each installment of Fiction Correctives poses five questions to an FC2 author. These interviews celebrate FC2’s mission and backlist, and expand the conversation about cutting-edge fiction. Read the first interview with Michael Martone here!

Tricia Bauer has a story in new anthology Blue Christmas: Holiday Stories For The Rest Of Us. The anthology also features stories by Steve Almond, Ben Greenman, and Ann Hood, among others. Be sure to check out Bauer’s recent novel Father Flashes (FC2).

And Susan Steinberg, author of The End Of Free Love (FC2) and Hydroplane (FC2) has new fiction in Pleiades Vol. 31 No. 1.

This year’s &Now Conference–Tomorrowland Forever!–will take place October 13th-15th at UCSD.

&NOW is a festival of fiction, poetry, and staged play readings; literary rituals, performance pieces (digital, sound, and otherwise), electronic and multimedia projects; and intergenre literary work of all kinds, including criti-fictional presentations and creatively critical papers.

FC2 will hold a Flash Fiction Reading on Thursday, October 13th at 5:00 PM in the DeCerteau Room of the Literature Building. Participating readers include Lucy Corin, Jeffrey DeShell, Amelia Gray, Noy Holland, Matt Kirkpatrick, Lance Olsen, Joanna Ruocco, and Elisabeth Sheffield.

Go to the &Now webpage for more information, a full conference program, and a UCSD campus map.

Fiction Collective Two will accept submissions for both the Ronald Sukenick/ABR Innovative Fiction Prize and the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize through November 1st.

For more information visit FC2.org.

And click here for a conversation on HTMLGIANT about small press book contests. Lance Olsen talks about the Sukenick and Doctorow Prizes, along with editors from Les Figues , Starcherone , and Noemi .

FC2 authors Debra Di Blasi, Lance Olsen, and Rob Stephenson will be reading at Unnameable Books this Sunday, October 9th.

7:30 p.m./Unnameable Books/600 Vanderbilt Ave/Brooklyn, NY

Dzanc’s rEprint Series publishes contemporary literature in electronic forms. The series focuses on works that have recently gone out of print and great books in print that have yet to be converted to an e-form.

Titles by FC2 authors Brian Kiteley, Noy Holland, Michael Martone, and Stephen Graham Jones are forthcoming.  Dzanc’s rEprint series will publish no less than 15 titles by one of the founding members of the Fiction Collective, Jonathan Baumbach!

Storyville features award-winning stories by contemporary authors. This week’s story is “Xmas, Jamaica Plain” by Melanie Rae Thon. Melanie Rae Thon’s novel The Voice of the River is one of FC2’s new 2011 fall titles.

The Mom Egg publishes and promotes women writers. Be sure to check out their short review of Margo Berdeshevsky’s recent FC2 title Beautiful Soon Enough (winner of the 2009 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize).

Sara Greenslit’s novel, As If A Bird Flew By Me, is the 2009 Ronald Sukenick Prize winner and one of FC2’s new fall titles. Recently reviewed at Shelf Awareness, As If A Bird Flew By Me is described as “a beautiful, haunting dream” and “a sparkling mesh of lyricism and imagery.” Be sure to read an except of Greenslit’s novel at Gone Lawn: A Webjournal of New and Progressive Literature.