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
Odyssey Podcast #166 is an excerpt from a question and answer session with New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner at Odyssey 2021, in which she answered questions about building a writing career and working in the young adult field. A 2009 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, Meagan is the author Read more
Sam W. Pisciotta is an intrepid storyteller hurtling through spacetime on the power of morning coffee and late-night tea. He writes stories for people who want to visit other planets, learn magic from birds, or camp in haunted forests. His M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Colorado trained Read more
A. Katherine Black lives in Minnesota with her family, their cats, and her many teapots and coffee machines. She loves making snow angels and dreaming up stories about creatures with bunches of legs, tentacles, and wings. She’s a member of SFWA and Codex and a 2018 graduate of the Odyssey Read more
Your Personal Odyssey graduate Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer; Ignyte Award winner; Nebula, Locus, Bram Stoker, and BSFA Award finalist; and an immigrant from Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She is a member of HWA and SFWA. Her work can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy & Read more
Odyssey Podcast #165 is an excerpt from a question and answer session with David Corbett for Your Personal Odyssey in 2023 in which he discusses rediscovering what you love about writing, developing useful habits, and generating subtext. David is the author of seven novels, which have been nominated for numerous Read more
Since launching this blog in 2008, the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust has shared numerous posts aimed at helping writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror improve their craft. With so much content over so many years, it’s easy to miss things, so this month we’re highlighting some of the Read more
David Corbett was a 2023 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. David is the author of seven novels, which have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Edgar®. His second novel, Done for a Dime, was a New York Times Notable Book, and Patrick Anderson of the Washington Post described it as “one of Read more