Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #61: Barbara Ashford on Tension Headaches (Part 1)
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Barbara Ashford gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2012 on “Tension Headaches” and character complexity.
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop
Interview: Meagan Spooner
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
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #60: Barry B. Longyear on Imagination Building (Part 2)
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Barry B. Longyear gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2011 on Building a Professional Imagination.
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop
Interview: Jason Heller
Jason Heller is an author, editor, and journalist whose nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including Clarkesworld (where he’s currently the nonfiction editor), The A.V. Club (where he served as Denver City Editor and is currently a regular contributor), Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, Alternative Press, and Tor.com. His writing on Read more
Blog Posts Odyssey Writing Workshop
Graduate’s Corner: When Is It Time to Move On? by James Maxey
James Maxey attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 1998. He’s gone on to publish stories in a score of magazines and anthologies, and eight novels to date. His currently available novels are the superhero tales Nobody Gets the Girl and Burn Baby Burn, and two fantasy series, the Dragon Age Read more
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop TNEO
Interview: Rhiannon Held
Rhiannon Held is a graduate of the 2006 Odyssey Writing Workshop. She lives in Seattle, where she works as a professional archaeologist. Unfortunately, given that it’s real rather than fictional archaeology, fedoras, bullwhips, aliens, and dinosaurs are in short supply. Most of her work is done on the computer, using Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #59: Barry B. Longyear on Imagination Building (Part 1)
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Barry B. Longyear gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2011 on Building a Professional Imagination.
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop
Interview: Barbara Ashford
Barbara Ashford will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. She abandoned a career in educational administration to pursue a life in the theatre, working as an actress in summer stock and dinner theatre and later, as a lyricist and librettist. She’s written everything from cantatas to Read more
Podcasts
Odyssey Podcast #58: John Joseph Adams on the Short Fiction Market
An excerpt from the lecture John Joseph Adams gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2011 on the Short Fiction Market.
Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop
Interview: Craig Shaw Gardner
Craig Shaw Gardner will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. He sold his first short story in 1977, and began writing full time in 1987. He has published over thirty novels ranging from his first, A Malady of Magics, to the Changeling War fantasy trilogy, written Read more