essayists

noun

plural of essayist
as in novelists

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  1. storytellers
  2. playwrights
  3. fabulists
  4. screenwriters
Noun
  • Koosha in a director’s statement argued storytellers should not feel threatened by AI tools.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
  • Both films came from digital-native storytellers in their 20s who arrived with sizable online followings already attached.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of storytellers
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  • Since the first Interview episodes, Jones and Hannah Moscovitch, both playwrights, have imbued the series with a kind of meta-argument for the power of art in times of tremendous turmoil.
    — Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026
  • Off-off-Broadway houses, often non-union with minimal budgets, are where many new playwrights get their start because the financial commitment is lowest.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
Definition of playwrights
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  • The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
  • More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.
    — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026
Definition of fabulists
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  • The second edition of Pitch Talent, organized with the screenwriting labs IsLABentura Canarias, CIMA Impulsa and DAMA Ayuda, will showcase emerging screenwriters and creatives selected by each lab, joined by Mallorcan screenwriter-director Ferrán Bex.
    — Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 11 May 2026
Definition of screenwriters
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