Short story or Novella?

by ELSIE BYRON
3rd January 2017

I have ideas for a couple of stories but they wouldn't be 300 plus pages only about 150-250 pages. Would these be classed as short stories or novella's? Also to where would I submit either ?

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Hi Elsie. I think 150 - 200 pages would probably be a novella or even a novel, but it depends on your word count. A novella is typically between 20,000 to 50,000 words. And as far as I can tell anything over that would be classed as a novel.

As for where you'd submit it, I would imagine you'd take a similar route to having a novel published? Whether that be self published or the more traditional route. I assume there are agents our there who accept novellas too.

Hope this is helpful

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