Rebecca Shelley

Getting the Vision onto the Paper Rebecca Shelley is the author of Red Dragon Codex and Brass Dragon Codex under the pen name R. D. Henham. Find out more about Rebecca Shelley here: www.rebeccashelley.com I’ve always been a writer, all my life, but not a very effective one until I attended Odyssey.  At Odyssey I learned Read more

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Jason S. Ridler

To Experiment is to Grow: One Value of Odyssey Part of this essay first appeared in “‘Danger, Norm Partridge!’: An Alternative View on the Value of Workshops for the Young Fantasist,” published by the Internet Review of Science Fiction (April 2007) Want to know more about Jay Ridler?   I had been writing for Read more

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Sherry Peters

The Odyssey Experience This article originally appeared in WordWrap, the quarterly magazine of the Manitoba Writer’s Guild. Sherry Peters is a graduate of Odyssey 2005. Find out more about her here: www.sherrypeters.com. Attending the Odyssey Writing Workshop for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Writers was simultaneous heaven and hell. Heaven because I Read more

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Peter Simonson

Moments of Odyssey About a year ago, Peter Simonson committed himself to developing his writing.  Getting accepted to Odyssey was a first accomplishment.  Now he is working on a few different short stories and hoping to start submitting his work early next year.  He enjoys writing fantasy and science fiction that plays Read more

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Rhiannon Held

Learning to Learn Rhiannon Held is a graduate of Odyssey 2006. You can find out more about her here: www.rhiannonheld.com. I have vivid memories of the first year of my undergrad college experience, when I was struggling to pick a major and figure out what kind of career that would allow Read more

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Gerald Warfield

Odyssey Writers Workshop Gerald Warfield is a graduate of Odyssey 2010. You can find out more about Gerald here: http://www.geraldwarfield.com When I was accepted into the Odyssey Writers Workshop, I expected that I would be in for the most meaningful experience, to date, in my quest to become a fiction writer. I Read more

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Erin Hoffman

Odyssey: What You Don’t Know (Will Set You Free) Erin Hoffman is a graduate of Odyssey 2005. Find out more here: http://www.erinhoffman.com The nature of learning is such that what you don’t know is what’s most dangerous to you. Your nemesis is not something as familiar or easy as that thing you Read more

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Zoe Zygmunt

How I spent my summer vacation or how Odyssey changed my life Zoe Zygmunt is a graduate of Odyssey 2010.   The Odyssey Fantasy Writer’s Workshop has all the ingredients of a best seller. A great idea (from the big brain of Jeanne Cavelos), an epic and lush setting (St. Anselm), Read more

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Martin Larsson

They Kept on to Their Journey’s End, Or Random Thoughts from an Odfellow There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Explaining the mechanics of the Odyssey workshop is easy.  Asses in seats before nine o’clock.  Two, two and a half hours of lectures from Read more

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Meagan Spooner

Overcoming Fear Meagan Spooner is a graduate of Odyssey 2009.  She is the author of Skylark and Shadowlark, the first two books in a young adult fantasy trilogy available from Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Books. She is also the co-author of These Broken Stars, the first in the young adult science fiction Read more

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