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.

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

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.

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 ...

To be eligible, the work must be a novel, novella or short story collection written by a Georgia author and professionally published in the two years prior to the award.

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.

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 ...