contemporary writers
Today's literary voices
Contemporary writers are authors working in the present era, typically those whose careers overlap with the reader's lifetime.
The term shifts with each generation—writers contemporary to readers in 1950 differ from those contemporary now.
She studies contemporary writers rather than Victorian novelists.
In publishing and academia, contemporary often implies authors active from roughly the mid-20th century onward.
- digital publishingDistributing content electronically
- social media presenceActivity on networking platforms
- fictionImagined narrative work
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- flash fictionUltra-short story genre
creative nonfiction · climate change · identity · stream of consciousness · poetry · fragmented narrative · postmodernism · blogs · magical realism · technology · minimalism · indigenous voices · memoir · speculative fiction · climate fiction · intertextuality · self-publishing · literary fiction
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- writersauthor, novelist, poet, journalist, essayist
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- Spanish LiteratureDon Quixote, Don Quijote, Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, El Cid
- Chinese LiteratureAmy Tan, Pearl S. Buck, Pearl Buck, Confucius, Sun Tzu
contemporary writersthe classics
Foundational works of literature
classical literature · Homer · Virgil · old masters · Western canon
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