Short, Lyric and Nonfiction Forms

Genres shorter than the novel or built outside narrative fiction altogether: short fiction's compressed prose narrative, lyric poetry's first-person verse, pastoral's idealized rural subject, and nonfiction prose's factual rather than invented content. Belongs here: a genre defined by brevity, lyric voice or nonfiction status. Does not belong here: a long-form prose fiction genre, tracked under the novel group above.