FSG Originals

Happy publication day to Fernando A. Flores’s VALLEYESQUE! Swinging between satire and surrealism, grief and joy, is a boundary- and border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice. "These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A. Flores’s deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives." —Kelly Link, author of
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux is proud to announce the foundation of the FSG Writer’s Fellowship. ​​This year-long program is designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing: funding, editorial guidance, and advice on how to forge a writing career. The fellowship celebrates the spirit of the FSG list and its commitment to invention, curiosity, and extending the limits of literature. Mitzi Angel, president and publisher of FSG, says, “I’m delighted to announce the FSG writer’s fellowship, a program in keeping with our longtime commitment to thrilling new voices. I look forward to welcoming the fellow to the FSG community and providing them with a unique opportunity for artistic growth.”

The judges for the 2022 FSG Writer’s Fellowship are Sheila Heti, Katie Kitamura, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Interested individuals can apply starting April 1, 2022 and the deadline to apply is April 15. More information about the fellowship can be found at https://fsgfellowship.com/. The winner will be announced in August and the Fellowship will begin in September.

🛸 COVER REVEAL INCOMING 💥 An anthology of near future science fiction from VICE’s acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, TERRAFORM—in print for the very first time! TERRAFORM stories are marked by their convincing engagement with the world that we just might live in . . . Divided here into three categories—WATCH/WORLDS/BURN—these stories take on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse. From editors Claire L. Evans and Brian Merchant, this collection is landing in bookstores on August 16, 2022! https://www.mcdbooks.com/news/terraform-reveal