It would be remiss of me not to mention short stories as an extremely relevant and vital literary fiction form. This is not to say that all short stories are literary fiction because short stories carry their own genres like books do.
tobias wolff
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
This national award for best work by an American author was founded in 1980 by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. This foundation and award is associated with PEN, an international organization devoted to the rights and freedoms of writers worldwide. It was