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FC2 Reading

Virtual
Saturday, March 26, 2022
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm

 

FC2 has been a leading publisher of experimental writing for over forty years, hosting a continually dynamic and diverse conversation about what constitutes the innovative. FC2 authors include, among many others, Samuel Delany, Leslie Scalapino, Lidia Yuknavitch, Stephen Graham Jones, Diane Williams, Amelia Gray, and Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. This event features readings by authors of their latest releases, followed by a Q&A.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_2022_event_outline_with_Novak_and_Woods_transcripts.pdf
Supplemental Document 2: Steve_Tomasula_AWP_FC2_Reading_with_Pages_2022.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels Ascension, The Book of Portraiture, VAS: An Opera in Flatland, IN&OZ, TOC: A New-Media Novel, and the short story collection: Once Human. He also served as editor of Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E-, and Hybrid Writing.

Marc Anthony Richardson is author of Messiahs and Year of the Rat, winner of an American Book Award. He is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award, a PEN America grant, a Sachs Program grant, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. Currently, he teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kathleen J. Woods has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a Tin House alum and a former Writers Grotto fellow. Her work has appeared in Bitch Media, Western Humanities Review, Apeiron Review, and The Thought Erotic. White Wedding is her first novel.

JoAnna Novak's short story collection, Meaningful Work, won the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published in August. Her third book of poetry, New Life was published in October. Her debut memoir Contradiction Days will be published in 2023.

Vi Khi Nao is the author of Swimming With Dead Stars, A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line, and the play, Waiting for God. She was the winner of 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize and the 2016 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest for A Brief Alphabet of Torture, a collection of short stories.

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