The Inlander’s 101-Word Fiction Contest returns (after previous appearances in 2004 and 2009) with three times the power of your average tweet (maybe four — we don’t limit ourselves to a ...

The list comes from Jeff Prucher, a freelance writer and editor of the OED’s science fiction project. He put out a Hugo-winning book Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary Of Science Fiction ...

It does seem all but inarguably true about science fiction, though, that the genre radiates neologisms (new words) and neosemes (new concepts made of old words) like an overloading warp core emits ...

I care. Samuel Taylor Coleridge said fiction was the willing suspension of disbelief. But what if it's not willing? What if you believed every word? If you thought you were reading a true story ...

Write and then post your very own six-word science fiction mini-epics below, and then all there’s left to do is to start reading and star all your very favorites. I’ll be highlighting the best ...

The rules: Set down 1,000 words a day for 14 days. Fiction or nonfiction, poetry or dialogue, inspired or uninspired, for a future book or simply for the sake of writing. Recommended Videos “I ...

The word fiction is described as literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the fiction genre ...

Today, we might think of the dividing line as the one between fact and fiction. Stories are fanciful tales woven at bedtime, the plots of melodramatic soap operas. That word can even be used to ...

creating an expansive world with few words that the reader can fall into and roll around in. Boise Weekly honors such thrifty writers in our annual Fiction 101 contest. Not only is it a short ...