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
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Gary A. Braunbeck gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2011 on Establishing and Maintaining Emotional Realism in Your Fiction.
Jennifer Jackson will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. She is Vice President of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, which she joined in 1993. Growing up reading science fiction and fantasy led naturally to a concentration in that genre, which she continues to champion. After pioneering Read more
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Gary A. Braunbeck gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2011 on Establishing and Maintaining Emotional Realism in Your Fiction.
Paul Park will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. He has written a dozen novels in a variety of genres. His most recent work includes a steampunk story in an upcoming anthology, an apocalyptic science-fiction Icelandic Edda, and a Forgotten Realms novel called The Rose of Read more
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Elizabeth Bear gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2011 on Narrative Structure and Types of Plot.
Jeanne Dillard Kalogridis will be the writer-in-residence at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. Jeanne is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty books, including historical novels (The Inquisitor’s Wife, The Devil’s Queen, The Borgia Bride and others), dark fantasy (The Diaries of the Family Dracul trilogy), and novelizations Read more
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Elizabeth Bear gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2011 on Narrative Structure and Types of Plot.
Jeanne Cavelos is the director of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. She was a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she worked for eight years, editing the fantasy/science fiction program, the Abyss horror line, and other fiction and nonfiction. Jeanne is also the bestselling author of seven books and numerous Read more
An excerpt from the lecture Sheila Williams gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2005 on the Short Fiction Market.