**ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS ANNOUNCES INTENSIVE, LIVE, ONLINE CLASSES FOR WINTER 2015** This winter, the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust is offering three live online courses with the same high quality and rigorous approach as its acclaimed, in-person Odyssey workshop: Showing versus Telling in Fantastic Fiction, One Brick at a Time: Read more
Every month or two, the Odyssey Writing Workshop releases new podcasts created from excerpts from lectures given by guest writers, editors, and agents at the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Each one is ten to fifteen minutes long. Our two newest podcasts feature authors and guest lecturers Alexander Jablokov (Brain Thief), from Read more
An excerpt from the lecture Alex Jablokov gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2014 on how character functions within plot.
Arley Sorg is a graduate of the 2014 Odyssey Writing Workshop. He grew up in England, Hawaii, and Colorado. He hangs out at SF/ Bay Area cafes. He often writes about identity and society, using the context of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and all the cool stuff that blurs and Read more
An excerpt from the lecture Holly Black gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2013 on creating a magic system.
Ellen Denham, a 2006 Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate, is a multidisciplinary performing artist and writer completing a doctorate in music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include stories in Daily Science Fiction, the Sky Warrior Books anthology Gears and Levers 3, and most recently the Lightspeed special Read more
Author Rhiannon Held graduated from Odyssey in 2006. She is the author of the urban fantasy Silver (Silver, Tarnished and Reflected) series from Tor. She lives in Seattle, where she works as an archaeologist for an environmental compliance firm. Working in both archaeology and writing, she’s “lucky” enough to have two sexy careers that don’t Read more
An excerpt from the lecture Sheila Williams gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2013 on examples of how short story openings can appeal to an editor.
Author Jerry White is a 1996 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. He teaches writing, math and science to middle grade students in New Jersey, where he lives with his wife, three sons, and a hamster named Ophelia that doesn’t like him very much. Jerry also works for a production Read more
Award-winning authors Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem will be the writers-in-residence at this year’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. Melanie Tem’s work has received the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards and a nomination for the Shirley Jackson Award. She has published numerous short stories, eleven Read more