Arley Sorg was a 2024 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Arley is an associate agent at kt literary. He is a two-time World Fantasy Award Finalist and a three-time Locus Award Finalist for his work as co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. Arley is also a SFWA Solstice Award Recipient, a Space Cowboy Award Recipient, Read more
Odyssey Podcast #170 is an excerpt from a question and answer session with Rebecca F. Kuang for Your Personal Odyssey in 2024 in which she answers questions on character description. Rebecca is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Read more
Paul Park was a 2024 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Paul is the author of A Princess of Roumania and numerous other novels. He published his first novel in the 1980s and swiftly attracted notice as one of the finest authors on the “humanist” wing of American SF. His powerful, Read more
Odyssey Podcast #169 is an excerpt from a lecture by Rebecca F. Kuang for Your Personal Odyssey in 2024 on common pitfalls in character description. Rebecca is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis Read more
Chana Kohl works in Jerusalem in clinical trials and research, writing speculative fiction in her spare time. Her stories have appeared in Analog SF, Luna Station Quarterly, and Stupefying Stories. She was winner of the 2022 Analog SF Emerging Black Voices Award and will be a participant in the 2024 Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop Read more
Odyssey Podcast #168 is an excerpt from a question and answer session with Jessie Mihalik for Your Personal Odyssey in 2024 in which she answers questions on worldbuilding, exposition, romance, and sticking with a project. Jessie has a degree in Computer Science and a love of all things geeky. A Read more
Rebecca F. Kuang was a 2024 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Rebecca is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Read more
Odyssey Podcast #167 is an excerpt from a lecture by Odyssey Director Jeanne Cavelos for Your Personal Odyssey in 2024 on a complex character arc that combines growth and transformation. Before creating the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust, Jeanne was a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she worked Read more
Apply by November 22, 2024 It’s Odyssey Online Class season! Build new skills and make your writing stronger and more memorable. We’ve got three classes to choose from. Attend live, online class sessions for intensive instruction and an interactive experience. Assignments will provide you deep practice in trying out the Read more
Jessie Mihalik was a 2024 Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop guest. Jessie has a degree in Computer Science and a love of all things geeky. A software engineer by trade, Jessie now writes full time from her home in Central Texas. She’s the author of three romantic space opera trilogies and Read more