Your Personal Odyssey Guest Lecturers

John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and is the editor of more than thirty anthologies, such as Wastelands and A People’s Future of the United States.
John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been a finalist twelve times) and an eight-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award. He has been called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, and his books have been lauded as some of the best anthologies of all time.
John is also editor (and publisher) of the Hugo Award-winning magazine Lightspeed and is publisher of its sister-magazines Nightmare and Fantasy. Prior to taking on that role, John worked for nine years in the editorial department of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
In addition to his short fiction work, he’s a producer for WIRED’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, and for five years he was the editor of the John Joseph Adams Books novel imprint for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
John has written reviews for Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Locus Magazine, Amazing Stories, Audible.com, Strange Horizons, and Intergalactic Medicine Show. His other nonfiction writing has appeared in venues such as io9, Syfy Wire, Tor.com, and Wired.com. He also served as a judge for the 2015 National Book Award.
Lately, he’s been working as an editor on various TTRPG projects for Kobold Press and Monte Cook Games and as a contributing game designer on books such as Kobold Press’s Tome of Heroes. Learn more at johnjosephadams.com.
Elaine Isaak
E. C. Ambrose writes knowledge-inspired adventure fiction including the five-volume Dark Apostle series about medieval surgery, The Singer's Legacy fantasy series as by Elaine Isaak, and the Bone Guard international thrillers as by E. Chris Ambrose. The Dark Apostle started with Elisha Barber (DAW, 2013), described in a starred Library Journal review as, "beautifully told, painfully elegant." Her latest release is The Maya Bust (Bone Guard 4) and her historical fantasy novel, Drakemaster, about a clockwork doomsday device in medieval China, launches with Guardbridge Books in April 2022. Her superhero game, Raptor: Justice Takes Flight, is forthcoming from Choice of Games.
Her short stories have appeared in Fireside, Warrior Women and Horror for the Throne, among many others, and she has edited several volumes of New Hampshire Pulp Fiction.  In addition to fiction, she has written how-to articles for The Writer magazine, nonfiction at Clarkesworld, and authored the Lady Blade fantasy writing column at AlienSkin magazine for three years. Her speaking engagements have included local chapters of Romance Writers of America as well as other writing groups, the World Science Fiction and World Fantasy Conventions.
Elaine attended the Rhode Island School of Design for three years, and studied speculative fiction at the Odyssey Writing Workshop, where she is pleased to return as an instructor. A former animal mascot designer and adventure guide, Elaine lives in New Hampshire with her family where she felts, dyes and weaves as she devises her plots.
Elaine's research interests include the history of technology and medicine, Mongolian history and culture, medieval history, in particular medieval medicine and the history of England. Her research and travel has taken her to Germany, England, France, India, Nepal, China and Mongolia as well as many United States destinations. In order to write the best books she can, Elaine learned how to hunt with a falcon, clear a building of possible assailants, and pull traction on a broken limb. She is eager to see where writing will take her next. Visit www.RocinanteBooks.com to find out more about Elaine's many guises.  
 
Scott H. Andrews
Scott H. Andrews lives in Virginia with his wife, two cats, twelve guitars, a dozen overflowing bookcases, and hundreds of beer bottles from all over the world. He writes, teaches college chemistry, and is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the nine-time Hugo Award finalist and World Fantasy Award-winning online fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
Scott is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop; his literary short fiction has won a $1000 prize from the Briar Cliff Review, and his genre short fiction has appeared in Space & TimeCrossed Genres, and Ann VanderMeer's Weird Tales.
Scott has taught writing at the Odyssey Workshop, Writefest, and online for Odyssey Online Classes, Clarion West, and Cat Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers. He has lectured on short fiction, secondary-world fantasy, editing, magazine publishing, audio podcasting, and beer on dozens of convention panels at multiple Worldcons, World Fantasy conventions, and regional conventions in the Northeast and Midwest. He is an eight-time finalist and 2019 winner of the World Fantasy Award, and he celebrates International Stout Day at least once a year.
Gregory Ashe Gregory Ashe is a bestselling author and longtime Midwesterner. He has lived in Chicago, Bloomington (IN), and Saint Louis, his current home. He primarily writes contemporary mysteries, with forays into romance, fantasy, and horror. Predominantly, his stories feature LGBTQ protagonists. When not reading and writing, he is an educator. For more information, visit his website: www.gregoryashe.com.
Barbara AshfordBarbara Ashford has been praised by reviewers and readers alike for her compelling characters and her “emotional, heartfelt” storytelling. Her background as a professional actress, lyricist, and librettist has helped her delve deeply into character and explore the complexities of human nature on the stage as well as on the page. Her musical adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd has been optioned for Broadway
Barbara’s first published series was the dark fantasy trilogy Trickster's Game (written as Barbara Campbell). Published by DAW Books, Trickster's Game was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Society's 2010 Fantasy Award for adult literature.
She drew on her musical theatre roots for her second novel series, the award-winning Spellcast and its sequel Spellcrossed, set in a magical summer stock theatre. DAW Books released the two novels in an omnibus edition: Spells at the Crossroads.

A graduate of the Odyssey workshop, Barbara has taught eight online courses for Odyssey and has served on the staff of the Odyssey Critique Service for more than a decade. You can visit her dual selves at barbara-campbell.com and barbara-ashford.com.
David Brin David Brin is a scientist, inventor, and New York Times bestselling author. With books translated into 25 languages, he has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. A film directed by Kevin Costner was based on David's novel The Postman.  David's science-fictional Uplift Saga explores genetic engineering of higher animals, like dolphins, to speak. His near-future novels Earth and Existence explore possible consequences of onrushing technologies on people's lives. As a scientist/futurist, David is seen frequently on television shows such as The ArchiTechsUniverse, and Life After People (most popular show ever on the History Channel)--with many appearances on PBS, BBC and NPR. An inventor with many patents, he is in-demand to speak about future trends, keynoting for IBM, Google, Procter & Gamble, SAP, Microsoft, Qualcomm, the Mauldin Group, and Casey Research, all the way to think tanks, Homeland Security, and the CIA. With degrees from Caltech and the University of California-San Diego, Dr. Brin serves on advisory panels ranging from astronomy, NASA innovative concepts, nanotech, and SETI to national defense and technological ethics. His nonfiction book The Transparent Society explores the dangers of secrecy and loss of privacy in our modern world. It garnered the prestigious Freedom of Speech Prize from the American Library Association. His next nonfiction work (May 2021) is Vivid Tomorrows: Science Fiction and Hollywood.
P. Djèlí Clark Phenderson Djèlí Clark is the award-winning and Hugo-, Nebula-, Sturgeon-, and World Fantasy-nominated author of the novellas The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots, Hidden Youth and Clockwork Cairo. He is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons. Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, he spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. When not writing speculative fiction, P. Djèlí Clark works as an academic historian whose research spans comparative slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World. He melds this interest in history and the social world with speculative fiction, and has written articles on issues ranging from racism and H.P. Lovecraft to critiques of George Schuyler’s Black Empire, and has been a panelist and lecturer at conventions, workshops and other genre events. At current time, he resides in a small Edwardian castle in New England with his wife, infant daughters, and pet dragon (who suspiciously resembles a Boston Terrier). When so inclined he rambles on issues of speculative fiction, politics, and diversity at his aptly named blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.
Brandon SandersonBrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. By junior high he had lost interest in the novels suggested to him, and he never cracked a book if he could help it. Then an eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Reeder, gave him Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly.
Brandon was finishing his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. In 2005 Brandon held his first published novel, Elantris, in his hands. Tor also published six books in Brandon’s Mistborn series, along with Warbreaker and then The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, and Oathbringer, the first three in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive. Five books in his middle-grade Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series were released by Starscape. Brandon was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series; the final book, A Memory of Light, was released in 2013. That year also marked the releases of YA novels The Rithmatist from Tor and Steelheart from Delacorte—the first book of the Reckoners trilogy, which concluded in 2016 with Calamity—who also published his most recent work Skyward in late 2018.
Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He also hosts the Hugo Award-winning writing advice podcast Writing Excuses with Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells.
Melissa Scott Melissa Scott was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at Harvard College.  She earned her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in the comparative history program with a dissertation titled “The Victory of the Ancients:  Tactics, Technology, and the Use of Classical Precedent.”  She also sold her first novel, The Game Beyond, and quickly became a part-time graduate student and an—almost—full-time writer. Over the next thirty years, she published more than thirty original novels and a handful of short stories, most with queer themes and characters, as well as authorized tie-in work for Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Wars Rebels, and Rooster Teeth’s anime series gen:LOCK. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1986, and won Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, Point of Dreams, (with long-time partner and collaborator, the late Lisa A. Barnett), and Death By Silver, written with Amy Griswold.  She has also been shortlisted for the Tiptree Award.  She won Spectrum Awards for Death by Silver, Fairs’ Point, Shadow Man and for the short story “The Rocky Side of the Sky.” Lately, she has collaborated with Jo Graham on the Order of the Air, a series of occult adventure novels set in the 1930s (Lost Things, Steel Blues, Silver Bullet, Wind Raker, and Oath Bound) and with Amy Griswold on a pair of gay Victorian fantasies with murder, Death by Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club. She has also continued the acclaimed Points series, fantasy mysteries set in the imaginary city of Astreiant, most recently with Point of Sighs. Her latest short story, “Sirens,” appeared in the collection Retellings of the Inland Seas, and her text-based game for Choice of Games, A Player’s Heart, came out in 2019. Her most recent solo novel, Finders, was published at the end of 2018, and she is currently at work on the next book in the sequence, Fallen.
Nisi Shawl
Nisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist and Tiptree Honor novel Everfair, an alternate history in which the Congo overthrows King Leopold II’s genocidal regime, and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning short story collection Filter House. In 2005 she co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, now considered the standard text on diverse character representation in the imaginative genres, and the basis of her years of online and in-person classes of the same name. She is a founder of the inclusivity-focused Carl Brandon Society and has served on the Clarion West Writers Workshop’s board of directors for twenty years.
Shawl’s dozens of acclaimed stories have appeared in Analog and Asimov’s Magazines, among other publications; her “Everfair-adjacent” story “Vulcanization” was selected as one of twenty offered in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017. Recently she edited New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, published in Spring 2019 by Solaris. In the past she has edited and co-edited many more anthologies such as Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany and Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler, both finalists for the Locus Award. Currently, she is writing Kinning, an Everfair sequel.
Meagan Spooner

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Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day, while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, an astronaut. She graduated from Odyssey in 2009 and currently lives and writes in Asheville, North Carolina, but takes every opportunity she can find to travel the world--there's a bit of every trip in the stories she writes.
 
She is the bestselling author of eleven novels, including the Skylark Trilogy, the Starbound Trilogy, the fairytale and legend retellings Hunted and Sherwood, and most recently, The Other Side of the Sky.
Eric James Stone
Eric James Stone is a past Nebula Award winner and Hugo Award Nominee. Over fifty of his short stories have appeared in venues such as Year's Best SF, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and even the scientific journal Nature. His debut novel, the science fiction thriller Unforgettable, published by Baen Books, has been optioned by Hollywood multiple times.
One of Eric’s earliest memories is of seeing an Apollo moon-shot launch on television. That might explain his fascination with space travel. His father’s collection of old science fiction ensured that Eric grew up on a full diet of Asimov, Heinlein and Clarke.
Eric's life has been filled with a variety of experiences. As the son of an immigrant from Argentina, he grew up bilingual and spent most of his childhood living in Latin America. He also lived for five years in England and became trilingual while serving a two-year mission for his church in Italy.
While getting his political science degree at Brigham Young University, Eric took creative writing classes. He wrote several short stories, and even submitted one for publication, but after it was rejected he gave up on creative writing for a decade. He is still kicking himself for having done so.
During those years Eric graduated from Baylor Law School, worked on a congressional campaign, and took a job in Washington, DC, with one of those special interest groups politicians always complain that other politicians are influenced by. He quit the political scene in 1999 to work as a web developer in Utah.
In 2002 he started writing fiction again, and in 2003 he attended Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp to hone his writing skills. His first publication came in 2004, when he was a published finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest, which he credits with jump-starting his writing career. In 2007 Eric got laid off from his day job just in time to go to the Odyssey Writing Workshop, where he learned even more about writing.
Eric also spent five years as an assistant editor for the online magazine Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.
Eric lives in Utah, where he works a day job as a systems administrator and web programmer. He is married to Darci Stone, who is also an award-winning author, in addition to being a high school physics teacher, a developer of educational software, and an awesome mother to their children.
Sheree Renée Thomas Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning editor and the author of three collections, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, May 2020), Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press, 2016) and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems (Aqueduct Press, 2011). She is the editor of the groundbreaking anthologies, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000) and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2004), which earned the 2001 and 2005 World Fantasy Awards for Year's Best Anthology, making her the first Black author to win the award since its inception in 1975. Sheree is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949. She also edited for Random House and for magazines like ApexStrange Horizons, and is the Associate Editor of the historic literary journal, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. As a fiction writer and poet, her work has been supported with fellowships and residencies from Smith College as the Lucille Geier-Lakes Writer-in-Residence, the Cave Canem Foundation, Bread Loaf Environmental, the Millay Colony of Arts, VCCA, the Wallace Foundation, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, ArtsMemphis, and others. Widely anthologized, her work also appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy and The New York Times. Sheree was honored as a 2020 World Fantasy Award Finalist for her contributions to the genre and will serve as a Special Guest and a co-host of the 2021 Hugo Awards Ceremony with Malka Older at Discon III in Washington, DC. Visit .
Carrie Vaughn's work includes the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel Bannerless, a post-apocalyptic murder mystery; the New York Times Bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series; over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her most recent novel is Questland, about a high-tech LARP that goes horribly wrong. She's a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her at www.carrievaughn.com.
Sheila Williams is the multiple Hugo-Award winning editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. She is also the winner of the 2017 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for distinguished contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community.
Sheila started at Asimov’s in June 1982 as the editorial assistant. Over the years, she was promoted to a number of different editorial positions at the magazine and she also served as the executive editor of Analog from 1998 until 2004. With Rick Wilber, she is also the co-founder of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy. This annual award has been bestowed on the best short story by an undergraduate student at the International Conference on the Fantastic since 1994. She has served as an instructor at Odyssey, Clarion, Clarion West, and other writing workshops. In addition, She coordinates the Asimov’s website (www.asimovs.com).
In addition, Sheila is the editor or co-editor of twenty-six anthologies. Her newest anthologies are the forthcoming Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine: A Decade of Hugo & Nebula Award Winning Stories, 2005–2015, from Prime Books and the 2020 volume of the Twelve Tomorrow series from MIT Press.
Sheila received her bachelor's degree from Elmira College in Elmira, New York, and her MA in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.  During her junior year she studied at the London School of Economics. Sheila is the mother of two daughters. She lives in New York City with her husband, David Bruce.

Jeanne Cavelos - Director and Primary Instructor

The creation of the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization devoted to helping developing writers of fantastic fiction improve their work, has been a dream of Jeanne’s which she has worked to make a reality.

Jeanne is a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher. She began her professional life as an astrophysicist and mathematician, teaching astronomy at Michigan State University and Cornell University, and working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

But soon her love of science fiction led her to earn her MFA in creative writing. She moved into a career in publishing, becoming a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she created and launched the Abyss imprint of innovative horror and the Cutting Edge imprint of noir literary fiction. She also ran the science fiction/fantasy publishing program. In addition, she edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction. She worked with such authors as William F. Nolan, Joan Vinge, Robert Anton Wilson, Dennis Etchison, Tanith Lee, Kathe Koja, Poppy Z. Brite, J. M. Dillard, David Wingrove, Barry Gifford, Patrick McCabe, and Peter Dickinson. In her eight years in New York publishing, she edited numerous award-winning and best-selling authors and gained a reputation for discovering and nurturing new writers. Jeanne won the World Fantasy Award for her editing.

Jeanne left New York to find a balance that would allow her to do her own writing and work in a more in-depth way with writers.

Jeanne has had seven books published by major publishers. Her last novel to hit the stores was Invoking Darkness, the third volume in her best-selling trilogy The Passing of the Techno-Mages (Del Rey), set in the Babylon 5 universe. The Sci-Fi Channel called the trilogy “A revelation for Babylon 5 fans. . . . Not ‘television episodic’ in look and feel. They are truly novels in their own right.” Her book The Science of Star Wars (St. Martin’s) was chosen by the New York Public Library for its recommended reading list. The Science of The X-Files (Berkley) was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Jeanne is currently writing a near-future science thriller about genetic manipulation, titled Fatal Spiral.

Jeanne has published short fiction and nonfiction in many magazines and anthologies. She has also ghostwritten several bestselling books.

The Many Faces of Van Helsing (Berkley), an anthology edited by Jeanne, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. The editors at Barnes and Noble called it “brilliant. . . . Arguably the strongest collection of supernatural stories to be released in years.”

Since she loves working with developing writers, Jeanne created and serves as primary instructor at Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop, an innovative program that combines advanced lectures, expert feedback, and deep mentoring, and provides a personalized, one-on-one online experience responsive to each writer’s needs. In 2010, Jeanne launched Odyssey Online Classes to help writers all over the world improve their skills in specific, targeted areas. Jeanne oversees the courses offered and teaches every few years. In 2015, Jeanne was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for her work as Odyssey director and instructor.

She is also an English lecturer at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches fiction writing.

Jeanne has spoken widely on writing, publishing, science, and science fiction at venues as varied as the Smithsonian Institute, the Air Force Revolutionary Technologies Division, the Intel International Science Fair, the American Chemical Society, Dartmouth College, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the Science Channel, Turner Entertainment, the Art Bell radio program, and many radio shows, bookstores, and conventions. More information is on her site, www.jeannecavelos.com.

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To listen to past lectures, please visit our Odyssey Podcast.

2021 Guest Lecturers:

  • David Farland
  • Scott H. Andrews
  • Gregory Ashe
  • Melissa Scott
  • P. Djèlí Clark
  • Sheree Renée Thomas
  • Megan Spooner
  • David Brin

2020 Guest Lecturers:

  • Brandon Sanderson
  • Eric CJames Stone
  • Scott H. Andrews
  • J. G. Faherty
  • Sheila Williams
  • Barbara Ashford
  • Carrie Vaughn
  • John Joseph Adams
  • E. C. Ambrose

2019 Guest Lecturers:

  • Neil Clarke
  • Nisi Shawl
  • Scott H. Andrews
  • Fran Wilde
  • Paul Witcover
  • Joshua Blimes
  • Sara King
  • Holly Black

2018 Guest Lecturers:

  • Theodora Goss
  • Nisi Shawl
  • Scott H. Andrews
  • E. C. Ambrose
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • Gary A. Braunbeck

2017 Guest Lecturers:

  • J. A. White
  • Gemma Files
  • David Brin
  • Michael J. Sullivan
  • E. C. Ambrose
  • Alex Jablokov
  • Mark Gottlieb
  • Meagan Spooner
  • Dan Chaon

2016 Guest Lecturers:

  • Mary Robinette Kowal
    2016 Writer-in-Residence
  • Patricia Bray
  • Meagan Spooner
  • N. K. Jemisin
  • Deborah DeNicola
  • Scott H. Andrews

2015 Guest Lecturers:

  • Kij Johnson
    2015 Writer-in-Residence
  • Brendan DuBois
  • E. C. Ambrose
  • Alma Alexander
  • Alex Hughes
  • Jennifer Jackson

2014 Guest Lecturers:

  • Melanie Tem
    2014 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Steve Rasnic Tem
    2014 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Catherynne M. Valente
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • Alexander Jablokov
  • Delia Sherman
  • Ellen Kushner
  • Gordon Van Gelder

2013 Guest Lecturers:

  • Nancy Holder
    2013 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Holly Black
  • Patricia Bray
  • Adam-Troy Castro
  • Jack Ketchum
  • Sheila Williams

2012 Guest Lecturers:

  • Lane Robins
    2012 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Elaine Isaak
  • Paul Park
  • Craig Shaw Gardner
  • Barbara Ashford
  • Jennifer Jackson

2011 Guest Lecturers:

  • Gary A. Braunbeck
    2011 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Barry B. Longyear
  • Elizabeth Bear
  • Theodora Goss
  • Christopher Golden
  • John Joseph Adams

2010 Guest Lecturers:

  • Laura Anne Gilman
    2010 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Alexander Jablokov
  • Michael A. Arnzen
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • Gregory Frost
  • David G. Hartwell

2009 Guest Lecturers:

  • Carrie Vaughn
    2009 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Patricia Bray
  • Jeffrey A. Carver
  • Jack Ketchum
  • Melissa Scott
  • Ginjer Buchanan

2008 Guest Lecturers:

  •  Nancy Kress
    2008 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Ellen Kushner
  • Delia Sherman
  • Barry B. Longyear
  • James Maxey
  • Craig Shaw Gardner
  • Jenny Rappaport

2007 Guest Lecturers:

  • Nina Kiriki Hoffman
    2007 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Michael A. Burstein
  • Rodman Philbrick
  • Michael A. Arnzen
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • John Clute
  • George Scithers

2006 Guest Lecturers:

  • Robert J. Sawyer
    2006 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Melissa Scott
  • Jeff VanderMeer
  • Laurie J. Marks
  • Christopher Golden
  • Shawna McCarthy

2005 Guest Lecturers:

  • Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem
    2005 Special Writers-in-Residence
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • Allen M. Steele
  • P. D. Cacek
  • James Morrow
  • John Clute
  • Sheila Williams

2004 Guest Lecturers:

  • George R. R. Martin
    2004 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Catherine Asaro
  • Ellen Kushner
  • Delia Sherman
  • Bob Mayer
  • Barry B. Longyear
  • Gardner Dozois

2003 Guest Lecturers:

  • Gene Wolfe
    2003 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Roland J. Green
  • Melissa Scott
  • Bruce Holland Rogers
  • Lori Perkins
  • John Crowley

2002 Guest Lecturers:

  • Charles de Lint
    2002 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • James Patrick Kelly
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • R. A. Salvatore
  • Thomas F. Monteleone
  • Matthew Bialer

2001 Guest Lecturers:

  • Terry Brooks
    2001 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Allen M. Steele
  • Ellen Kushner
  • F. Paul Wilson
  • Delia Sherman
  • Craig Shaw Gardner
  • Donald Maass

2000 Guest Lecturers:

  • Dan Simmons
    2000 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Ellen Datlow
  • Melissa Scott
  • Charles L. Grant
  • Barry B. Longyear
  • Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

1999 Guest Lecturers:

  • Ben Bova
    1999 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Jeffrey A. Carver
  • Terry Bisson
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • R. Patrick Gates
  • Scott Edelman

1998 Guest Lecturers:

  • Harlan Ellison
    1998 Special Writer-in-Residence
  • Patricia A. McKillip
  • John Crowley
  • James Morrow
  • Ellen Kushner
  • Delia Sherman
  • Warren Lapine

1997 Guest Lecturers:

  • Melissa Scott
  • Ellen Kushner
  • Delia Sherman
  • Michael McDowell
  • Esther Friesner
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • Warren Lapine

1996 Guest Lecturers:

  • Hal Clement
  • Craig Shaw Gardner
  • Ellen Kushner
  • Delia Sherman
  • Jane Yolen
  • Elizabeth Hand L
  • Leigh Grossman