There are many genres used by authors all the time. Such as poetry, nonfiction, plays,novels, and much more. Nonfiction novels can be biographies, memoirs and even short stories written or based on true events. Poetry is used as a way of expression that can be fiction or nonfiction. The many writing styles help authors best to express and share the stories they create. They might do this by writing short stories, comics, flash fictions and my other means to story telling.