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Graduate & Odyssey Online Instructor: “Problem-solving Your Story” by Gregory Ashe

Odyssey graduate and bestselling author Gregory Ashe will be teaching the Odyssey Online class Writer’s Toolkit: Taking Your Story from Idea to Manuscript this winter (application deadline: December 5, 2023). You can find more information on Odyssey Online’s 2024 class offerings at https://www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-online/upcoming-classes/ Gregory is a longtime Midwesterner. He has lived Read more

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 27, 2026

Graduate Essay: “Acting Techniques for Writing Subtext” by Barbara A. Barnett

Barbara A. Barnett is a writer, musician, occasional orchestra librarian, coffee addict, wine lover, and all-around geek. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, GigaNotoSaurus, Weird Horror Magazine, and Flash Fiction Online. A 2007 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, Barbara Read more

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 18, 2026

Podcasts

Odyssey Podcast #161: Tim Waggoner

Odyssey Podcast #161 Odyssey Podcast #161 is an excerpt from a lecture by Tim Waggoner for Your Personal Odyssey in 2023 on managing pace in novels. Tim has published over fifty novels and seven collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, Read more

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 27, 2026

Announcements Odyssey Online

2024 Odyssey Online Classes

Application deadline 12/05 Only 3 classes per year. Only 14 students per class. Bestselling, award-winning instructors. Live, Intensive, Interactive. Odyssey has been a pioneer in holding live online classes since 2010. Live class meetings allow a virtual classroom experience, with students participating in discussions, asking questions, and learning from an instructor Read more

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 27, 2026

Podcasts

Odyssey Podcast #160: E. C. Ambrose

Odyssey Podcast #160 Odyssey Podcast #160 is an excerpt from a lecture by E. C. Ambrose for Your Personal Odyssey in 2023 on the intersection of setting and character. E. C. Ambrose 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 Read more

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 15, 2026

Interviews Your Personal Odyssey

Interview: Graduate V. Voya Tse

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

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 14, 2026

Interviews Your Personal Odyssey

Interview: Graduate Nicole Magoon

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

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 15, 2026

Podcasts

Odyssey Podcast #159: Steven Barnes

Odyssey Podcast #159 Odyssey Podcast #159 is an excerpt from a question and answer session with Steven Barnes for Your Personal Odyssey in 2023 in which he discusses speaking your truth and dealing with writer’s block. Steven is a NAACP Image Award winner and New York Times bestselling novelist who Read more

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 14, 2026

Interviews Odyssey Writing Workshop

Interview: Graduate Donna Glee Williams

2011 Odyssey graduate Donna Glee Williams was born in Mexico, the daughter of a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas large-animal veterinarian. She graduated from Tulane University, then earned an MFA and PhD from Louisiana State University, but it was really her years of wayfaring across twenty countries and four continents that Read more

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 14, 2026

Podcasts

Odyssey Podcast #158: Steven Barnes

Odyssey Podcast #158 Odyssey Podcast #158 is an excerpt from a lecture by Steven Barnes for Your Personal Odyssey in 2023 on creating the Hero’s Journey both for your characters and for yourself as a writer, the steps involved, and the change that results. Steven is a NAACP Image Award Read more

By Odyssey Editor, 3 years ago May 14, 2026