Wendy Dye

My Odyssey Experience Prior to hearing about Odyssey, I’d never considered applying to a writing workshop. I felt the things that I wrote and liked to read fell between the cracks, and that I’d be comfortable at neither a workshop focused on genre fiction nor one biased toward the realistic Read more

Twenty Students Gather for 1998 Odyssey into Writing Until Odyssey, I’d read many books about writing fiction, and thought I understood the fundamentals, but now I have an infinitely better grasp of the practice of these fundamentals and much more confidence that I can apply them methodically and intelligently to Read more

Odyssey Designed as a literary boot-camp, Odyssey is a six-week long intensive writing program taught by an incredibly talented writer and former editor, Jeanne Cavelos in New Hampshire. Odyssey draws talent from all around the United States and abroad, as guest lecturers and a “writer-in-residence” help make the writing conference Read more

Clarion vs. Odyssey This essay was originally published in Speculations, March 2000, issue #32. Morgan graduated from Clarion West 1993 and Odyssey 1998. His short story “Flashed Shadows” (Aboriginal SF, Fall 1996, issue #52) won second place in the Best Soft SF Contest for 1996. He currently works on cutting edge Read more

A Watershed Experience When I arrived at Odyssey in 1998, I was in a rut. I knew my writing wasn’t all it could be, but I had no clue how to improve. In the final week of the workshop, Jeanne said one thing to me that changed my writing forever: Read more

A Watershed Experience For me, Odyssey was more than just worthwhile; it was a watershed experience. Calibration was its first function for me. Before I went, I’m embarrassed to say, I thought I was a good writer needing only a little polish. Well, I wasn’t. I did have strengths: ideas, Read more