新的文学环境和传播机制使得新世纪以来的中国作家队伍的构成发生了前所未有的变化。大体看来,新世纪的作家构成主要有四个部分,他们是:传统型作家;网络作家;80后、90后青春作家;自由撰稿人式的草根作家或称为“非职业作家”。虽然文学环境产生了极大变化,但传统意义上的几代作家仍然坚守着自己的阵地,他们无论从创作到出版发表,都沿着传统文学的路子前行并不断创新,有所开拓。前不久,人民文学出版社评出去年“当代长篇 The new literary environment and communication mechanism have made unprecedented changes in the composition of Chinese writers since the new century. Generally speaking, there are mainly four parts in the composition of writers in the new century. They are: traditional writers; online writers; post-1980s and post-90s young writers; freelance writer-type grassroots authors or ”non-professional writers“ ”. Although great changes have taken place in the literary environment, in the traditional sense, several generations of writers still stick to their own positions. Both of them have made innovations and pioneered along the path of traditional literature from creation to publication. Not long ago, People’s Literature Publishing House last year "long history