Hello,
If you write science fiction, fantasy, or horror, you might be
interested in the Odyssey Writing Workshop. The 2008 workshop will be
held from June 9 to July18 at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New
Hamp****re. Odyssey is a great op****tunity to improve your writing and
meet editors and authors. More information can be found in the press
release below, or on the workshop website www.odysseyworkshop.org.
The director, Jeanne Cavelos, is always happy to answer questions and
discuss the workshop. You can email her at jcavelos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
to see you there.
Cheers,
Susan Sielinski
Odyssey Administrator
susansielinski@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Release
February 2008
ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOP
ANNOUNCES SUMMER 2008 SESSION
About Odyssey
Since its inception in 1996, Odyssey has earned a place as one of the
most respected workshops in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror
writing community. Fifty-two percent of Odyssey graduates go on to
professional publication. The six-week workshop combines an intensive
learning and writing experience with in-depth feedback on student
manuscripts. Top authors, editors, and agents have served as guest
lecturers, including George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Jane Yolen,
Terry Brooks, Robert J. Sawyer, Ben Bova, Ellen Datlow, Elizabeth
Hand, Jeff VanderMeer, Donald Maass, Sheila Williams, Shawna McCarthy,
and Dan Simmons.
The program is held every summer on Saint Anselm College's beautiful
campus in Manchester, NH. Saint Anselm is one of the finest liberal
arts colleges in the country, dedicated to excellence in education,
and its campus provides a unique, lovely setting and state-of-the art
facilities for Odyssey students.
Jeanne Cavelos, Odyssey's director, founder, and primary instructor,
is a best-selling author and a former senior editor at Bantam
Doubleday Dell Publi****ng, where she won a World Fantasy Award for her
work. Being a writer/editor makes Cavelos uniquely suited to provide
students with constructive and professional critiques of their work.
She guides students through the six weeks, gaining in-depth knowledge
of their work, providing detailed *****sments of their strengths and
weaknesses, and helping them target their weaknesses one by one. "I
give the same unflinchingly honest, concrete, detailed feedback to
students that I provided to professional authors," Cavelos said.
"Along with that, Odyssey offers an advanced, comprehensive curriculum
through in-depth lectures, providing the tools and techniques students
need to improve. Receiving feedback on your work and learning your
weaknesses doesn't help unless you also have the tools to strengthen
those areas. I'm constantly told by graduates that they learned more
at Odyssey than they learned in years of workshopping and creative
writing cl*****."
The workshop runs from June 9th to July 18th, 2008. Class meets for
four hours in the morning, five days a week. Students spend about
eight hours more a day writing and critiquing each other's work.
Prospective students, aged eighteen and up, apply from all over the
world. The early admission application deadline is JANUARY 31st, and
the regular admission deadline is APRIL 10th. Tuition is $1800, and
housing is $700 for a double room and $1400 for a single.
Meet Our 2008 Writer-in-Residence
This year, Odyssey is excited to host Nancy Kress as the writer-in-
residence. Author of twenty-three books, including science fiction,
fantasy, thrillers, short story collections, young adult novels, and
three excellent books on writing fiction, she has won three Nebulas
and a Hugo for her short fiction and the John W. Campbell Award for
her novel Probability Space. Ms. Kress is the Fiction columnist for
Writer's Digest Magazine and has taught at workshops across the
country.
Other Guest Lecturers
The Odyssey Writing Workshop is also pleased to welcome its 2008 guest
lecturers: award-winning authors Barry B. Longyear, Ellen Kushner,
Delia Sherman, and James Maxey; best-selling author Craig Shaw
Gardner; and Jenny Rappa****t, literary agent with the L. Perkins
Agency.
Odyssey Graduates
If you're reading science fiction, fantasy, and horror, you're reading
the work of Odyssey graduates. If you've read recent issues of some
of the top fiction magazines in the field--Realms of Fantasy,
Asimov's, Analog, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine--you've read stories
by Odyssey graduates Theodora Goss, David Barr Kirtley, Carrie Vaughn,
Sarah Totton, Carl Frederick, Andrea Kail, and Natalia Lincoln.
If you've been to the bookstore lately, you've seen books by Odyssey
graduates, including Maledicte by Lane Robins, published by Del Rey;
Bloodstone by Barbara Campbell, published by DAW; Bitterwood by James
Maxey, published by Solaris Books, The Eunuch's Heir by Elaine Isaak,
published by the Eos imprint of HarperCollins; and Kitty Takes a
Holiday by Carrie Vaughn, published by Warner.
Andrea Kail, a graduate from the class of '04 and winner of this
year's Writers of the Future contest, has this to say about her
experience at Odyssey: "Before I came to Odyssey, I was stumbling
around in the dark, writing by instinct and making a lot of bad
choices. But the Odyssey experience and Jeanne have given me the
tools I need to follow my good instincts, ignore the bad ones, and
make the choices that lead to good stories." Other graduates have
written about their experiences at Odyssey, and these descriptions can
be found on the website at http://www.sff.net/odyssey/gradexs.html.
Other Odyssey Resources and Services
The Odyssey website www.odysseyworkshop.org offers free podcasts,
writing and publi****ng tips, a class syllabus, and more information
about how to apply. An overview of the Odyssey Critique Service is
also available on the website at http://www.sff.net/odyssey/crit.html.
This service provides authors with professional-level feedback on
their writing, done with the thoroughness and depth for which Odyssey
is known.
Those interested in applying to the workshop should visit the website,
phone/fax (603) 673-6234, or e-mail jcavelos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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