Do you have questions about subject matter, tone, moral stance, and all the decisions a Catholic fiction writer might make while crafting fiction?
Join professor, author and freelance editor William Gonch as he explores these topics and others with three fiction authors and editors at different stages of their fiction careers.
The three guest author-panelists are fiction writers Dorian Speed, Brigid Pasulka, and Karen Ullo.
Dr. William Gonch is an assistant professor and director of literature at Ave Maria University, where he teaches creative writing as well as courses in American and European literature. In addition, Dr. Gonch works as a freelance fiction manuscript consultant.
Dorian Speed is a writer, educator, and speaker. For the past 20 years, she has taught middle and high school students in a variety of settings. She currently teaches at Bluebonnet Home Scholars Collaborative in Sugar Land and graduated from the University of St. Thomas with her MFA in Creative Writing. Dorian spoke at the inaugural Walker Percy Conference at Loyola University in New Orleans and at the annual Center for Ethics and Culture conference at the University of Notre Dame. She contributed a chapter on the Scottish writer Muriel Spark to the collection Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know, newly released by Word on Fire Votive.
Brigid Pasulka's debut novel A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) won the 2010 PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and the Polish American Historical Society Creative Arts Award. It was translated into six languages, including Polish. Her second novel, The Sun and Other Stars (Simon & Schuster, 2014) was a Chicago Tribune Editor's Choice and an Indie Next Pick. Pasulka’s short stories have been published in various literary journals.
Karen Ullo is the award-winning author of Jennifer the Damned, Cinder Allia, and To Crown with Liberty. She's the editorial director of Chrism Press and served for more than three years as managing editor of the Catholic literary journal Dappled Things. She holds a MFA in screenwriting from the University of Southern California and has been featured as a speaker at venues across the country including The Louisiana Book Festival, The Catholic Writers Guild Conferences, and Doxacon in Washington, D.C. Her website is karenullo.com.
Recordings will be available for classes missed.
This class will include
· Q&A
· Discussion
· Moderator
