Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #114: Elizabeth Hand on Secret Knowledge & Secret Wounds (Part 1)
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Elizabeth Hand gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2018 on Secret Knowledge and Secret Wounds.
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop
Interview: Guest Lecturer Neil Clarke
Award-winning editor and publisher Neil Clarke will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. He is best known as the editor and publisher of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine. Launched in October 2006, the online magazine has been a finalist for the Hugo Award Read more
Graduate Posts Odyssey Online
“The Revision Machete” by Derrick Boden
Derrick Boden’s fiction has appeared in numerous online and print venues including Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, and Compelling Science Fiction. To date, he has participated in four Odyssey online workshops and is always looking forward to the next. He is a writer, a software developer, a father, and Read more
Graduate Posts Guest Lecturer & Instructor Posts Odyssey Online
Graduate & Odyssey Online Instructor Barbara Ashford: “Don’t Lose Sight of the Big Picture”
Barbara Ashford is the award-winning author of six novels published by DAW Books. She is also a developmental editor and teacher. Her online course “Getting the Big Picture: The Key to Revising your Novel” will be offered in January-February 2019 through the Odyssey Writing Workshop, application deadline December 4. When Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #113: E.C. Ambrose on Setting and Research
An excerpt from the question and answer session E.C. Ambrose held at Odyssey in the summer of 2018, in which she covers setting and research.
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop
Interview: Guest Lecturer Fran Wilde
Award-winning author Fran Wilde will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. Her novels and short stories have been finalists for three Nebula awards, two Hugo Awards, and a World Fantasy Award. They include her Andre Norton- and Compton Crook-winning debut novel, Updraft (Tor, 2015); its sequels, Cloudbound (2016) and Horizon (2017); the Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #112: Nisi Shawl on Writing Process, Avoiding Didacticism & Writing the Other (Part 2)
Part two of an excerpt from the question and answer session Nisi Shawl held with Odyssey in the summer of 2018 on her writing process, avoiding didacticism, and writing the other.
Announcements Odyssey Online
2019 Odyssey Online Classes
ODYSSEY ONLINE OFFERS LIVE, INTENSIVE, INTERACTIVE CLASSES THAT MAKE A MAJOR DIFFERENCE FOR WRITERS “The class definitely blew away my expectations! It was fascinating, rigorous, and I had to work hard to keep up, which was exactly what I wanted. I would recommend Odyssey Online to anyone serious about improving their Read more
Graduate Posts Odyssey Writing Workshop
Graduate Essay: “How to Decide When to Apply to Odyssey” by Julian K. Jarboe
Julian K. Jarboe is a writer and sound designer from Massachusetts. They are a 2018 Graduate of Odyssey and a Fellow at the Writers’ Room of Boston. Their other work can be found in Strange Horizons, The Fairy Tale Review, and the LAMBDA Award-winning Best Transgender Speculative Fiction series. They can Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #111: Nisi Shawl on Studying Plot, Clarity, and Ambiguity (Part 1)
Part one of an excerpt from the question and answer session Nisi Shawl held with Odyssey in the summer of 2018 about studying plot, clarity, and ambiguity.