Description
The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. The first section will acquaint readers with the vast canon of existing fantasy fiction and outline the many sub-genres encompassed within it before examining the important relationship between fantasy and creative writing, the academy and publishing. A craft guide follows which equips students with the key concepts of storytelling as they are impacted by writing through a fantastical lens. These include: - Character and dialogue - Point of view - Plot and structure - Worldbuilding settings, ideologies and cultures - Style and revision The third section guides students through the spectrum of styles as they are classified in fantasy fiction from Epic and high fantasy, through Lovecraftian and Weird fiction, to magical realism and hybrid fantasy. An accompanying anthology will provide students with a greater awareness of the range of possibilities open to them as fantasy writers and will feature such writers as Ursula Le Guin, China Mieville, Theodora Goss, Emrys Donaldson, Ken Liu, C.S.E. Cooney, Vandana Singh, Sofia Samatar, Rebecca Roanhorse, Jessie Ulmer, Yxta Maya Murray, and Rachael K. Jones. With writing exercises, prompts, additional online resources and cues for further reading throughout, this is an essential resource for anyone wanting to write fantastical fiction.
An all-in-one guide to fantasy fiction writing looking at the genre's history, its key concepts of storytelling and featuring an anthology covering the vast canon of sub-genres within fantasy fiction.
About the Author
Jennifer Pullen is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio Northern University, USA. During her decade of teaching, she has also taught at Eastern Washington University and Ohio University. She has worked on the editorial team of journals including The New Ohio Review (NOR), and Willow Springs, where she was the Assistant Fiction Editor. Her research interests include fantasy fiction, fairy tales and mythology, gender studies, science fiction, 19th century literature, environmental writing, and creative writing pedagogy. She is a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies organization. Her chapbook of fabulist fiction A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue, feminist retellings of Greek myths, won the Omnidawn fabulist fiction award, selected by Lily Hoang. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals and anthologies including, but not limited to: Off the Coast, Cleaver, Phantom Drift Limited, Clockhouse, Behind the Mask, Lunch Ticket, and F(r)iction. She has won multiple awards for her teaching.
Reviews
A thorough take on the Fantasy genre by someone who clearly loves the genre, and a welcome addition to an academic field that deserves more scholarship. * Nicole Peeler, Director of the Writing Popular Fiction Program, Seton Hill University, USA *
Jennifer Pullen's Fantasy Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is the book students and teachers of not only Fantasy fiction but also fiction writ large have been waiting for. Capacious, generous, and wise, it deftly embraces history, inhabits our current cultural moment, and enables the future. An instant classic. * Stephanie Vanderslice, Professor of Creative Writing and Co-Director Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop, University of Central Arkansas, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350166929
Author Dr Jennifer Pullen
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
An all-in-one guide to fantasy fiction writing looking at the genre's history, its key concepts of storytelling and featuring an anthology covering the vast canon of sub-genres within fantasy fiction.
About the Author
Jennifer Pullen is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio Northern University, USA. During her decade of teaching, she has also taught at Eastern Washington University and Ohio University. She has worked on the editorial team of journals including The New Ohio Review (NOR), and Willow Springs, where she was the Assistant Fiction Editor. Her research interests include fantasy fiction, fairy tales and mythology, gender studies, science fiction, 19th century literature, environmental writing, and creative writing pedagogy. She is a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies organization. Her chapbook of fabulist fiction A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue, feminist retellings of Greek myths, won the Omnidawn fabulist fiction award, selected by Lily Hoang. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals and anthologies including, but not limited to: Off the Coast, Cleaver, Phantom Drift Limited, Clockhouse, Behind the Mask, Lunch Ticket, and F(r)iction. She has won multiple awards for her teaching.
Reviews
A thorough take on the Fantasy genre by someone who clearly loves the genre, and a welcome addition to an academic field that deserves more scholarship. * Nicole Peeler, Director of the Writing Popular Fiction Program, Seton Hill University, USA *
Jennifer Pullen's Fantasy Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is the book students and teachers of not only Fantasy fiction but also fiction writ large have been waiting for. Capacious, generous, and wise, it deftly embraces history, inhabits our current cultural moment, and enables the future. An instant classic. * Stephanie Vanderslice, Professor of Creative Writing and Co-Director Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop, University of Central Arkansas, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350166929
Author Dr Jennifer Pullen
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
