Make a quantum leap in your writing this summer! The Odyssey Writing Workshop for fantasy, science fiction, and horror writers will run from June 10 to July 19 in Manchester, NH. Participate in the program that has led 58% of graduates to professional publication, with their work appearing in top Read more
An excerpt from the lecture Craig Shaw Gardner gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2012 on How to Make Fantastic Characters Alive and Believable.
Sheila Williams will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. She is the two-time Hugo-Award-winning editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. She started at Asimov’s in June 1982 and served as the executive editor of Analog from 1998 until 2004. She is also the co-founder of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Read more
For seventeen years, Odyssey has pursued its mission to help developing writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror improve their work by holding its annual six-week, in-person workshop in Manchester, New Hampshire. Three years ago, Odyssey expanded its mission, taking the teaching techniques that are so effective at the workshop and adapting them Read more
Nancy Holder will be the writer-in-residence at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. She is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of adult, young adult, middle grade, and early reader work, both fiction and nonfiction. She has sold approximately 80 novels and 200 short stories, comic books, and essays in Read more
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Barbara Ashford gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2012 on “Tension Headaches” and character complexity.
Alex has written since early childhood, and loves great stories in any form including science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Over the years, Alex has lived in many neighborhoods of the sprawling metro Atlanta area. Decatur, the neighborhood on which Clean is centered, was Alex’s college home. On any given week Read more
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Barbara Ashford gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2012 on “Tension Headaches” and character complexity.
Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day, while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, an astronaut. She graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a degree in playwriting, and has spent several years since then living in Australia. She’s traveled Read more
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Barry B. Longyear gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2011 on Building a Professional Imagination.