Luke Goebel is the 2012 winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Prize. His collection FOURTEEN STORIES: None of Them are Yours will be published by FC2 in 2014. Goebel recently interviewed Susan Steinberg (The End Of Free Love, FC2) (Hydroplane, FC2) about her new collection of Stories, Spectacle, (Graywolf Press). You can read the interview at HTMLGIANT.
Of her characters, Steinberg says:
I guess they risk being ridiculed, objectified, humiliated, unprotected, seen as “confessional,” seen as too girly, seen as stupid, seen as too provocative, seen as unimaginative. Same things the female author risks.
I didn’t answer the second part, I just realized. What is risky for a woman to say?
I don’t think it’s as much about subject matter, as it is about style. I think it’s risky to be direct.
Hearty congratulations to Michelle Richmond and Luke Goebel, winners of the 2012 Doctorow and Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prizes.
Our next reading period opens August 15th, 2013. Matt Roberson will judge the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. And we are pleased to announce that Sam Lipsyte will judge the 2013 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Doctorow and Sukenick prizes!
Michelle Richmond has won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for her collection The Hero of Queens Boulevard and Other Stories. A special thanks to this year’s judge, Rikki Ducornet. The Doctorow prize includes publication by FC2 and $15,000.
Luke Goebel has won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest for his collection Fourteen Stories None of Them are Yours. Goebel’s prize-winning manuscript was selected by Jeffrey DeShell. The Sukenick prize includes publication by FC2 and $1,500.
The 2013 prizes will open for submissions on August 15th. For more information please visit www.fc2.org.
Please pass the word: the submission period for FC2’s Sukenick and Doctorow Book Prizes will end November 1st. Submit your manuscript through our online submissions manager.
The Ronald Sukenick American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize is open to any writer in English who has not previously published with the Fiction Collective 2. Novelist Jeffrey DeShell is judging this year. The winner receives $1,000 and publication.
The Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize is open to any writer in English with at least three books of fiction published. Rikki Ducornet will judge this year. The winner receives $15,000 and publication.
Visit FC2.org for complete guidelines and additional submission information.
FC2 is pleased to announce that the reading periods for the annual Sukenick and Doctorow book prizes will begin August 15, 2012 and extend through November 1, 2012.
The FC2 Ronald Sukenick American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize was started in 2006 as a way to find emerging authors whose aesthetic visions harmonize with the innovative aesthetic vision of FC2. The prize is open to any U.S. writer in English who has not previously published with FC2. The winner receives publication and $1,000. The 2011 winner of the Sukenick Prize is Sarah Blackman’s Motherbox. Novelist and FC2 Board Member Jeffrey DeShell will serve as judge for the upcoming 2012 contest.
The FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize was started in 2008 to bring established innovative writers to FC2. The prize is open to any U.S. writer in English with at least three books of fiction published. The winner receives publication and $15,000. The 2011 winner of the Doctorow Prize is Mac Wellman’s Linda Perdido. Writer and artist Rikki Ducornet will serve as judge for the upcoming 2012 contest.
Submissions to both the Sukenick and Doctorow prizes can be made to FC2’s electronic submissions manager starting August 15, 2012. For additional information and submission instructions, please go to http://www.fc2.org/prizes.html.
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.
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 .
Fiction Collective Two is pleased to announce Joanna Ruocco has won the second annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith-A Diptych. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $15,000. The judge was Ben Marcus.
Fiction Collective Two is also pleased to announce Patrick J. Lawler has won this year’s FC2 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize for Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $1000. The judge was Kate Bernheimer.
The 2011 contests will be open for submissions August 15 through November 1. Check the FC2 website for judges and details.
Announcing the 2010 Catherine Doctorow and Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prizes!
The FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Contest is open to any U.S. writer in English with at least three books of fiction published. Ben Macrus will judge.
The Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest is open to any U.S. writer in English who has not previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Kate Bernheimer will judge.
Please see the FC2 website (www.fc2.org) for full contest rules and information.
Contest entries will be accepted beginning 15 August. All entries must be postmarked no later than 1 November 2010. The winners will be announced in May 2011.
Fiction Collective Two is pleased to announce Tricia Bauer has won the first annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for her novel Father Flashes. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $15,000. Special mention goes to Melanie Rae Thon for her manuscript The Voice of the River. The judge was Carole Maso.
Fiction Collective Two is also pleased to announce Sara Greenslit has won this year’s FC2 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest for her novel As If a Bird Flew by Me. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $1000. Special mention goes to Kathleen M. McLaughlin for her manuscript Burn and to Erin M. Kautza for her manuscript Expiration Dates of Various Creatures. The judge was Susan Steinberg.