PEN/Faulkner 2025: Small Rain wins the award
The PEN/Faulkner Award honors outstanding American fiction chosen by a peer jury of writers. It’s a bellwether for contemporary storytelling shaped by voice, urgency, and craft.
In 2025, the award went to:
- Fiction — Small Rain by Garth Greenwell.
Greenwell’s novel is an elegant, psychologically exact portrait of …