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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Though they don’t forget to refer to Urdu short stories while talking about masterpieces of Urdu fiction, they have rarely assigned them the same status as novels.

Novella is on the short side but in fine form. DESCRIBED by Ian McEwen as the perfect form of prose fiction, the novella is undergoing a renaissance.

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.

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.

The writer defines the novella as being a work of 25,000 words. He is the author of several short-form books and two of his short novels have been shortlisted for the Booker prize. The 166-page On ...