Twelve novels, two short story collections, a non-fiction book, and one of a two-volume project on Becoming a Writer stand as an honorable reflection of this author´s career. Gail Godwin, a three-time National Book Award nominee, has been writing

being the literary fiction site 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.

One of my favorite forms of literary fiction is the novella. Starting at approximately 19,000 words (and running as long 40,000 words) it gives the literary fiction reader a little more meat than a short story but requires less commitment than a full blown novel.

First Book claims there is a literary crisis in the United States. One of the main reasons for this is the lack of variety of literary resources available for young readers and the lack of funding to do anything about it. Since 1992

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It´s time to let go of James Frey. Yes, he did a bad thing. "Bad Frey, Bad!" It will leave a mark on the literary scene for years to come (or will it?). I´m not going to rehash the facts of his untruths

If you didn´t know Jane Austen wrote a sequel to Emma, that´s because she didn´t. This sequel was written by Rachel Billington. The story opens a year after Emma´s marriage to Mr. Knightley with the couple still living at Hartfield with Mr. Woodhouse.

Her first novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence garnered the Writer´s Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, the City of Toronto Book Award and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. With two novels published and an anthology she compiled and edited, it´s obvious

This early morning writer and daytime University Professor from New York has been writing for more than thirty years. The single mother of one has published seven novels; her latest Anna-in-Between.

Austin, Texas is the home of this full time writer who has been writing for "as long as I can remember". Her husband, two "terrific" children and a Korean exchange student are a delightful distraction from her writing.