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1. informaluncountableliterary fiction

   I was once described on Twitter as a “litfic writer” who was “Quite Put Out” by a genre writer's mindless repetition of the above tropes[…]

   2019 October 28, Carmen Maria Machado, John Joseph Adams, editors, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page xviii

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   True. But as many genre writers who otherwise learn well in classes have found out, if they want to learn writing, it's hard to do it in a group that sneers at anything not litfic.

   2002 December 20, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, “Seton Hill University”, in rec.arts.sf.composition

   It's a fascinating distinction, and one that also has the neat effect of moving the debate on from the contentious territory of the SF/litfic turfwar into that of value-neutral literary theory.

   2014 July 18, Thomas Christie, Notional Identities: Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 202