Literary Impact
Since its founding in 1974, the press (the Fiction Collective, FC2, and the FC2 imprint Black Ice Books) has published more than 200 books. They have been mentioned in the "top books" of The Nation, Publishers Weekly, The Village Voice, and The New York Times Book Review. FC2 authors Clarence Major, Gerald Vizenor and Diane Glancy were included in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (fifth edition). Curtis White, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Gerald Vizenor, Mark Leyner and Samuel R. Delany were also included in Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. In 2002, the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored founder Ronald Sukenick with the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, stating "he has been an explorer, a courageous adventurer, and an absolutely necessary component of American literature."
The press and its authors have also been the subjects of essays in such journals as Critique, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, the Chicago Review, Poets & Writers, Contemporary Literature, TriQuarterly, Rain Taxi, American Book Review, Extrapolation, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. FC2 authors have received awards and nominations from PEN West, the Oregon Book Award, the Independent Publisher Award for Multicultural Fiction, the American Book Awards, the Western Book Award, the N.E.A., the Guggenheim Foundation, and the BEA Firecracker Award.
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