Types of writing
Listed alphabetically by style or genre under the separate headings of fiction and non-fiction.

Fiction:

Style


• Creative non-fiction
• Drama
• Short Story
• Epic
  • Art Epic
  • Literary Epic
  • Folk Epic
• Novel
• Poetry

  Genre
  

• Detective
• Fantasy
• Gothic
• Horror
• Mystery
• Romance
• Satire
• Science-fiction
• Spy
• Utopian
• Western

Non-fiction:

Style


• Essay or Thesis
• Journalism
• Technical

  Genre
  

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Critique
• Diary
• True Crime