Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #124: Fran Wilde on Worldbuilding
An excerpt from the lecture Fran Wilde gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2019 on worldbuilding.
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop
Interview: Guest Lecturer JG Faherty
JG Faherty will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Workshop. A life-long resident of New York’s haunted Hudson Valley, JG is the author of seven novels, ten novellas, and more than seventy-five short stories, and he’s been a finalist for both the Bram Stoker Award (The Cure, Ghosts of Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #123: Scott H. Andrews on Creating Stories with Spark
An excerpt from the Odyssey Online course Standing Out: Creating Stories with That Crucial Spark, taught by Scott H. Andrews.
Graduate Posts Guest Lecturer & Instructor Posts Odyssey Online
Graduate & Odyssey Online Instructor: “Make Your Big Moments Sing!” by Barbara Ashford
Award-winning novelist and librettist Barbara Ashford will be teaching the Odyssey Online class “The Heart of the Matter: Bringing Emotional Resonance to Your Storytelling” this winter (application deadline: December 7, 2019). Barbara has been praised by reviewers and readers alike for her compelling characters and her “emotional, heartfelt” storytelling. Her Read more
Director's Corner
Director’s Corner: Uncovering the Mysteries of Flow in the Opening of Stephen King’s 11/22/63
Jeanne Cavelos is the director of the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust. She was a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she worked for eight years, editing the fantasy/science fiction program, the Abyss horror line, and other fiction and nonfiction. Jeanne is also the bestselling author of seven books Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #122: Sara King on Tension
An excerpt from a lecture by Sara King at Odyssey 2019 on tension.
Graduate Posts Odyssey Writing Workshop
Graduate Essay: Linden A. Lewis, “How to Create a Novel from a Short Story”
Linden A. Lewis is a queer writer and world wanderer currently living in Madrid with three American cats who have little kitty passports. Tall and tattooed, Linden exists only because they’ve stopped burning witches. Linden graduated the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2016, and their first novel, The First Sister, will Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #121: Paul Witcover on Description (Part 2)
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Paul Witcover gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2019 on description.
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop
Interview: Graduate Erin Roberts
Odyssey graduate Erin Roberts is a speculative fiction writer who tells stories across formats: her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4,The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2019, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, The Dark, and THEN AGAIN: Vintage Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #120: Paul Witcover on Description (Part 1)
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Paul Witcover gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2019 on description.