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Genre Jargon: How the SFF and Literary Worlds Speak about Themselves and Each Other

First entry in a series on the different genre and literary ecosystems.

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Lincoln Michel
Mar 22, 2021
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Literary Kong versus Genrezilla

I always tell my writing students that today is an exciting time to be an author interested in both genre and literary fiction. That the barrier between the two is dissolving, that readers care little about labels, that even the Pulitzers and National Book Awards have genre works among the finalists, and that authors like …

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