APPLICATIONS OPENEarly Action Deadline 2/20 Have you ever wished that you could attend your own private writing workshop that would teach you exactly what you need to know, at the right pace for you, and respond to your questions, problems, and needs in extensive one-on-one sessions? That’s what Your Personal Read more
Apply by January 18, 2026 Odyssey’s Winter Online Classes are here! Build new skills and make your writing stronger and more memorable. We’ve got three courses to choose from. Attend live, online class sessions for intensive instruction and an interactive experience. Assignments provide deep practice in trying out the new Read more
APPLICATIONS OPENEarly Action Deadline 2/15 Have you ever wished that you could attend your own private writing workshop that would teach you exactly what you need to know, at the right pace for you, and respond to your questions, problems, and needs in extensive one-on-one sessions? That’s what Your Personal 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
APPLICATIONS OPENEarly Action Deadline 2/16 Have you ever wished that you could attend your own private writing workshop that would teach you exactly what you need to know, at the right pace for you, and respond to your questions, problems, and needs in extensive one-on-one sessions? That’s what Your Personal Odyssey Writing Read more
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
Make major progress on your fiction writing with an Odyssey Online class! Receive individual attention and in-depth feedback with an Odyssey Online class! Live, Intensive, Interactive. Bestselling, award-winning instructors. Only 3 classes per year. Only 14 students per class. Application deadline 11/21. Don’t miss out! The Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Read more
“I am so thrilled I was able to take an Odyssey Online Class, I can already see the improvement in my writing. The lectures and class discussion were wonderful. I learned so much in a short amount of time. The feedback I received from my classmates was invaluable and the critiques from the instructor have already improved my novel beyond expectations. I cannot recommend this class enough!”
—Hayley Wild
For 26 years, Odyssey has been holding its world-renowned workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, with 59% of graduates going on to professional publication. Among Odyssey graduates are award winners, Amazon bestsellers, and New York Times bestsellers.
(more…)George R. R. Martin, New York Times bestselling author, created the Miskatonic Scholarship to support a promising new writer of Lovecraftian cosmic horror attending the Odyssey Writing Workshop each year. Martin discovered the work of H. P. Lovecraft when he was a boy and found that no other writer could give him “chills to equal those provided by the cosmic horrors that Lovecraft evoked.” With the scholarship, Martin hopes to encourage and inspire a new generation of writers to explore the genre of cosmic horror. To one outstanding writer, Martin is offering the opportunity to study at the Odyssey Writing Workshop, one of the top programs in the world for writers of the fantastic.
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“I’ve taken other online writing classes before and gained a few useful insights here and there, but this class does more than just lecture—it gives you tools and forces you to practice using those tools. Then it shows you how to incorporate those tools into writing an actual story. I felt welcomed and supported in every stage of the class and am thrilled at how my writing network has expanded from this class. I was astounded at the amount and quality of the critiques I received from the instructor and my classmates on assignments I turned in. I learned so much from them! And I was just as astounded at the amount and quality of critique I was giving to other students—I’d been giving critiques for years, but this class taught me how to look at the big picture.” —Caitlin Jacobs
The Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust has announced its Winter 2021 online classes: One Brick at a Time: Crafting Compelling Scenes, taught by award-winning novelist Barbara Ashford; Emotional Truth: Making Character Emotions Real, Powerful, and Immediate to Readers, taught by award-winning editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews; and Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, taught by New York Times bestselling author Patricia C. Wrede.
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