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The Yellowbrick Writing Road Avione Lee was born and raised in Texas, as indicated by her excessive use of the word y’all. She is a graduate of the summer 2022 Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop, a Madeleine Milburn Fellow, and a Pitch Wars alum. Her debut novel, about a boy Read more…
My Odyssey Experience Katherine McMullen Yañez is a graduate of the 2021 Odyssey Writing Workshop. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. Her work has been featured in Parhelion Literary Magazine, Aurora Online, and in the short story anthology from KY Press, Read more…
My Odyssey Experience F. P. Rahe is a 2020 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. She is an alumna of the 2019 Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and has been recognized at the national level by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. When not reading or writing, she enjoys making omelets, Read more…
The Reader Comes First Vikram Ramakrishnan is a Tamil-American writer and computer programmer. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied physics, mathematics, and computer science. He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, where he won the Walter & Kattie Metcalf Singing Spider Scholarship. Read more…
How to Get the Most Out of Odyssey Born and raised on the Isle of Illusion, Marc Emerson was disappointed he couldn’t study psychohistory or attend Miskatonic University. He earned a mundane degree and managed to retain his sanity while studying the Necronomicon under golden minarets. He writes fantasy, horror Read more…
The Breakdown of Being “Too” Marie Croke is a Fantasy and Science-Fiction writer who won first place in the Writers of the Future Contest with the story “Of Woven Wood.” She has since gone on to have stories published in places such as Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, and DreamForge Magazine. She lives Read more…
Into the Deep End Malcolm Carvalho is a graduate of the 2021 Odyssey Writing Workshop. He writes science fiction and poetry. His work has been featured in several literary journals and magazines, including 365 Tomorrows, Kitaab, Bengaluru Review, and Muse India. Most recently, his poetry has been featured in the Read more…
Is Odyssey the Right Workshop for You? Libby Barringer is a 2020 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. She writes fantasy and science fiction, and she lives in the New York Hudson Valley with her husband and their excellent cat. She earned her PhD in political science in 2016 from Read more…
Seeing Myself Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer of speculative fiction and the founder and editor-in-chief of khōréō. She is also an alumna of the Odyssey Writers Workshop. You can find her on Twitter at @_aleksandrahill I decided to apply to Odyssey because I’d been writing and improving, but I Read more…
My Odyssey Experience Prior to hearing about Odyssey, I’d never considered applying to a writing workshop. I felt the things that I wrote and liked to read fell between the cracks, and that I’d be comfortable at neither a workshop focused on genre fiction nor one biased toward the realistic Read more…