What exactly separates a short story from a novella from a novel, you ask? As with most art forms, the label is somewhat ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

In their spareness, novellas and short novels — I’m counting any story longer than about 80 pages and any novel shorter than about 200 — reward a word-by-word reading.

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.

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.