Fantasy Fiction

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.

Table of Contents
Section 1: An Introduction to Fantasy Writing
Introduction
Chapter 1: Fantasy and Its Evolution
Chapter 2: Fantasy Genres (a mostly comprehensive review)
Chapter 3: Fantasy Fiction, Publishing, and Creative Writing in the Academy
Section 2: The Craft of Fantasy Writing
Chapter 4: Character and Dialogue
Chapter 5: Point of View
Chapter 6: Structure and Plot
Chapter 7: Worldbuilding Part 1
Chapter 8: Worldbuilding Part 2
Chapter 9: Worldbuilding Part 3
Chapter 10: Style and Revision
Discussion Questions and Writing Activities
Section 3: Genres and Styles of Fantasy Writing
Chapter 11: Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, and Sword and Sorcery Fantasy
Chapter 12: Historical Fantasy
Chapter 13: Weird Fiction, Lovecraftian Fantasy, Gothic Fantasy,
and Cosmic Horror
Chapter 14: Contemporary and Urban Fantasy
Chapter 15: Fabulism and Magical Realism
Chapter 16: Mythic, Fairy Tale, Folkloric, and Fairy Fantasy
Chapter 17: Hybrid Fantasy
Conclusion

Anthology
Cooney—Martyr’s Gem
Donaldson—The Albatrosses
Goss—England Under the White Witch
Jones—The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles
Le Guin—The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Liu—Good Hunting
Miéville—The Condition of New Death
Murray—La Llorona
Roanhorse—Harvest
Samatar—Meet Me in Iram
Singh—A Handful of Rice
Ulmer—Red
Valentine— From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire)
Notes and References