This document defines 21st century literature and identifies various modern literary genres used by contemporary writers. It begins by explaining that 21st century literature includes new works from the last decade that deal with current themes/issues and reflect technological culture. Some genres discussed are comic books, graphic novels, manga, doodle fiction, chick lit, flash fiction, science fiction, blogs, and hyper poetry. The document concludes by asking readers to choose and create an example of one of these 21st century literary genres.