News about YPO, as well as posts and interviews featuring YPO graduates, instructors, and guest lecturers
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
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
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
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
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
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
APPLICATIONS OPENEarly Action Deadline 2/16 Have you ever wished that you could attend your own private writing workshop that would teach you exactly what you need to know, at the right pace for you, and respond to your questions, problems, and needs in extensive one-on-one sessions? That’s what Your Personal Odyssey Writing Read more
E. C. Ambrose was a 2023 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. She writes knowledge-inspired adventure fiction including the five-volume Dark Apostle series about medieval surgery, The Singer’s Legacy fantasy series as Elaine Isaak, and the Bone Guard international thrillers as E. Chris Ambrose. The Dark Apostle started Read more
V. Voya Tse was raised in the mountains of Western Canada, but now resides in the Indian Himalayas. She works alongside two orphanages and co-founded a Fair Trade company, Fazl, which provides ethical wages to hundreds of women in need and helps support the children she loves. She is a Read more
Nicole Magoon is a 2022 graduate of the Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. She lives in London, by way of innumerable US cities. She has one husband, three children, and four superpowers, including [REDACTED BY GOVERNMENT]. By day she works on “corporate strategy,” which is def vaguely villainous, and by Read more