PERRYSBURG — Gathering Volumes will welcome Jennifer Pullen, associate professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University.
She has also 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 and has won multiple awards for her teaching.
Pullen will be at Gathering Volumes in Perrysburg on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. to discuss and sign copies of Fantasy Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, and following the talk, she will lead a short fantasy creative writing workshop for teens.
The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, Fantasy Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. It 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. Finally students are guided 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. 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.
Check out the event at Gathering Volumes’ website (www.gatheringvolumes.com), their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/gatheringvolumes/events) or in store (196 E. South Boundary Perrysburg).
