The event will take place Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Bama Theatre on Greensboro Avenue. The reading and its following reception are open to the public.
A reincarnation of the original Fiction Collective, which began in 1974 at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, FC2’s Tuscaloosa reading will include UA English professors Michael Martone and Kellie Wells and three former UA creative writing graduate students Sarah Blackman, Michael Mejia and Jessica Richardson.
Martone’s experience with Fiction Collective began in the late 1990s when he submitted the manuscript to his book, “The Blue Guide to Indiana,” for publication, making him a part of the editorial board.
“You help publish each other and build a community of sorts,” Martone said.
Richardson, said she has had a longstanding admiration for the organization.
“They have published some of my favorite writers that exist and have long been a home for mold-breaking, playmaking, unconventional tricksters of serious fiction,” Richardson said.
While it includes writers from all across the country, FC2’s current physical press is in Tuscaloosa, at the UA Press.
Martone said the organization acts as a community, where writers edit, publicize, publish and distribute each other’s work.
