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 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 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 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, 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 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 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