What exactly separates a short story from a novella from a novel, you ask? As with most art forms, the label is somewhat malleable. When it comes down to it, though, it’s all about word count.

The nature of the term novella suggests something experimental, playful perhaps, travelling away from the narrative mores of a "novel"; the term short novel, in contrast, braces the reader for the ...

This is the domain of the novella, ... (10,000 words) and the short novel (60,000 words). This is the 50,000-Word Abyss, and anything that falls within it is generally considered untouchable.

Novella Award organisers have defined a novel as being a piece of fiction between 20,000 and 40,000 words. ... a “short novel” which contains, according to a Vintage publicist, ...

Strangely, the short story never arouses suspicion of short-changing, probably because the form is so fundamentally different from the novel. I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose ...

The contemporary American novella, like Peace, is almost always passed off as a novel or "short novel" because the novella is the great shame of the publishing world.

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Short novels are even sneaking into works of long, complex fiction: In Lucy Ives’s labyrinthine Life Is Everywhere, the protagonist’s eerie novella, a riff on Hamlet, pops up hundreds of pages in.

We typically put fiction into one of two categories: It’s either a short story, or it’s a novel. But there is another variation that lands somewhere in between the two. Yes, the novella. What ...