Notes from the Odyssey Workshop A Blue Ear Books Special series of articles by James Hall, graduate of Odyssey 2001, reprinted from Blueear.com What is Genre Fiction? My first visit to Manchester, New Hampshire, home of the Odyssey Workshop, reveals an old city recreating itself anew. Driving through this city Read more
Sculpting with Words: My Odyssey Experience Elaine Isaak writes knowledge-inspired adventure fiction including The Dark Apostle series about medieval surgery (as E.C. Ambrose), The Singer’s Legacy fantasy series (as Elaine Isaak), and the Bone Guard international thrillers (as E. Chris Ambrose). Find out more at RocinanteBooks.com The Odyssey workshop, and Read more
Odyssey: A Never-Ending Experience I’d written a novel. I’d gotten an agent. I thought I was set. Unfortunately, every editor who read that first novel passed on it. “Too much fantasy to sell as a romance.” “Too much romance to sell as a fantasy.” And the blunt “Not for us” Read more
Odyssey: A Step on the Journey I majored in Creative Writing in college, primarily to get credit for something I spent my time doing anyway: writing stories. But the college workshop experience wasn’t helpful for me as a genre writer. I wasn’t writing what I wanted to write, and so Read more
Getting the Vision onto the Paper Rebecca Shelley is the author of Red Dragon Codex and Brass Dragon Codex under the pen name R. D. Henham. Find out more about Rebecca Shelley here: www.rebeccashelley.com I’ve always been a writer, all my life, but not a very effective one until I attended Odyssey. At Odyssey I learned Read more
To Experiment is to Grow: One Value of Odyssey Part of this essay first appeared in “‘Danger, Norm Partridge!’: An Alternative View on the Value of Workshops for the Young Fantasist,” published by the Internet Review of Science Fiction (April 2007) Want to know more about Jay Ridler? I had been writing for Read more
The Odyssey Experience This article originally appeared in WordWrap, the quarterly magazine of the Manitoba Writer’s Guild. Sherry Peters is a graduate of Odyssey 2005. Find out more about her here: www.sherrypeters.com. Attending the Odyssey Writing Workshop for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Writers was simultaneous heaven and hell. Heaven because I Read more
Moments of Odyssey About a year ago, Peter Simonson committed himself to developing his writing. Getting accepted to Odyssey was a first accomplishment. Now he is working on a few different short stories and hoping to start submitting his work early next year. He enjoys writing fantasy and science fiction that plays Read more
Learning to Learn Rhiannon Held is a graduate of Odyssey 2006. You can find out more about her here: www.rhiannonheld.com. I have vivid memories of the first year of my undergrad college experience, when I was struggling to pick a major and figure out what kind of career that would allow Read more
Odyssey Writers Workshop Gerald Warfield is a graduate of Odyssey 2010. You can find out more about Gerald here: http://www.geraldwarfield.com When I was accepted into the Odyssey Writers Workshop, I expected that I would be in for the most meaningful experience, to date, in my quest to become a fiction writer. I Read more