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Subject: [mythsoc] Odyssey Writing Workshop
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Publicity Release
November 2012
**ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOP
ANNOUNCES ITS 18th SUMMER SESSION**
About Odyssey
Since its founding in 1996, Odyssey has become
one of the most respected workshops in the fantasy, science fiction, and
horror writing community. Odyssey is for developing writers whose work is
approaching publication quality and for published writers who want to
improve their work. The six-week workshop combines advanced lectures,
exercises, extensive writing, and 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, Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Hand, Jeff
VanderMeer, Donald Maass, Sheila Williams, Shawna McCarthy, Carrie Vaughn,
and Dan Simmons. Fifty-eight percent of Odyssey graduates go on to
professional publication.
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 peaceful setting and state-of-the-art facilities
for Odyssey students. College credit is available upon request.
Jeanne Cavelos, Odyssey's director and primary instructor, is a
best-selling author and a former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell
Publishing, where she won the World Fantasy Award for her work. As an
editor, Cavelos gained a reputation for discovering and nurturing new
writers. She provides students with detailed, concrete, constructive
critiques of their work. Cavelos said, "I've worked with many
different writers, and I know that each writer thinks and works
differently. We limit attendance at Odyssey to sixteen, so I can become
deeply familiar with the work of each student and provide assessments of
strengths and weaknesses. I work individually with each student, helping
each to find the best writing process for him, suggesting specific tools to
target weaknesses, and charting progress over the six weeks." Her
critiques average over 1,200 words, and her handwritten line edits on
manuscripts are extensive.
Odyssey class time is split between workshopping sessions and
lectures. An advanced, comprehensive curriculum covers the elements of
fiction writing in depth. While feedback reveals the weaknesses in
students' manuscripts, lectures teach the tools and techniques
necessary to strengthen them.
The workshop runs from June 10 to July 19, 2013. Class meets for four
hours in the morning, five days a week. Students spend about eight hours
more per day writing and critiquing each other's work. Prospective
students, aged eighteen and up, apply from all over the world. The early
action application deadline is JANUARY 31, and the regular admission
deadline is APRIL 8. Tuition is $1,920, and housing is $790 for a double
room in a campus apartment and $1,580 for a single room.
This year, Odyssey graduate Sara King is sponsoring the Parasite
Publications Character Awards to provide financial assistance to three
character-based writers wishing to attend. The Parasite Publications
Character Awards, three scholarships in the amounts of $1,920 (full
tuition), $500, and $300, will be awarded to the three members of the
incoming class who are deemed extraordinarily strong character writers,
creating powerful, emotional characters that grab the reader and don't
let go.
Meet Our 2013 Writer-in-Residence
Odyssey's 2013
writer-in-residence, Nancy Holder, is an award-winning, New York
Times bestselling author of adult, young adult, middle grade, and early
reader work, both fiction and nonfiction. She has sold approximately 80
novels and 200 short stories, comic books, and essays in various
genres. She has taught creative writing classes at the University of
California at San Diego, the Maui Writers Retreat and Conference, and other
conferences and colleges, and has been on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA
in Creative Writing for seven years.
Other Guest Lecturers
Lecturers for the 2013 workshop include
some of the best teachers in the field: award-winning authors Holly Black,
Patricia Bray, Adam-Troy Castro, and Jack Ketchum; and the two-time Hugo
Award-winning editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine,
Sheila Williams.
Odyssey Graduates
Graduates of the Odyssey Writing Workshop
have been published in the top fiction magazines and by the top book
publishers in the field. Their stories have appeared in The Magazine of
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy,
Weird Tales, Lightspeed, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine
Show, and Clarkesworld. Some of the recent novels published by
Odyssey graduates are Kitty Steals the Show by Carrie Vaughn,
published by Tor Books; Lies & Omens: A Shadows Inquiries
Novel by Lyn Benedict, published by Ace Books; Spellcrossed by
Barbara Ashford, published by DAW; Silver by Rhiannon Held,
published by Tor Books; and Clean: A Mindspace Investigations
Novel by Alex Hughes, published by Roc Books.
Comments from the Class of 2012
"I learned more in six
weeks at Odyssey than I did in three years in an MFA program." –
Jessie Robie
"Jeanne is the most thorough and hard-working
instructor I've ever met. Odyssey has changed me as a writer. I
can't imagine a finer education or experience." – James Khan
"I was afraid Odyssey would change my writing and take away what
made it mine and unique, but I was so wrong. At Odyssey, I developed a
sense of control over those gut feelings I used to have—when I sensed
something was off but just could not figure out what it was. . . . Odyssey
is like a writer paradise. You might not want to change when you get here,
but you will. Later, you won't want to leave, but when you do, you
leave with a purpose." – Jessica May Lin
Other Odyssey Resources and Services
The Odyssey Web
site, www.odysseyworkshop.org, offers many resources for
writers, including online classes, a critique service, free podcasts,
writing and publishing tips, and a monthly blog. Those interested in
applying to the workshop should visit the Web site, phone (603) 673-6234,
or e-mail jcavelos@sff.net.
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From: <Joan.Marie.Verba@sff.net>
Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:42 PM
Subject: [mythsoc] Odyssey Writing Workshop
To: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com
Publicity Release
November 2012
**ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOP
ANNOUNCES ITS 18th SUMMER SESSION**
About Odyssey
Since its founding in 1996, Odyssey has become
one of the most respected workshops in the fantasy, science fiction, and
horror writing community. Odyssey is for developing writers whose work is
approaching publication quality and for published writers who want to
improve their work. The six-week workshop combines advanced lectures,
exercises, extensive writing, and 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, Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Hand, Jeff
VanderMeer, Donald Maass, Sheila Williams, Shawna McCarthy, Carrie Vaughn,
and Dan Simmons. Fifty-eight percent of Odyssey graduates go on to
professional publication.
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 peaceful setting and state-of-the-art facilities
for Odyssey students. College credit is available upon request.
Jeanne Cavelos, Odyssey's director and primary instructor, is a
best-selling author and a former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell
Publishing, where she won the World Fantasy Award for her work. As an
editor, Cavelos gained a reputation for discovering and nurturing new
writers. She provides students with detailed, concrete, constructive
critiques of their work. Cavelos said, "I've worked with many
different writers, and I know that each writer thinks and works
differently. We limit attendance at Odyssey to sixteen, so I can become
deeply familiar with the work of each student and provide assessments of
strengths and weaknesses. I work individually with each student, helping
each to find the best writing process for him, suggesting specific tools to
target weaknesses, and charting progress over the six weeks." Her
critiques average over 1,200 words, and her handwritten line edits on
manuscripts are extensive.
Odyssey class time is split between workshopping sessions and
lectures. An advanced, comprehensive curriculum covers the elements of
fiction writing in depth. While feedback reveals the weaknesses in
students' manuscripts, lectures teach the tools and techniques
necessary to strengthen them.
The workshop runs from June 10 to July 19, 2013. Class meets for four
hours in the morning, five days a week. Students spend about eight hours
more per day writing and critiquing each other's work. Prospective
students, aged eighteen and up, apply from all over the world. The early
action application deadline is JANUARY 31, and the regular admission
deadline is APRIL 8. Tuition is $1,920, and housing is $790 for a double
room in a campus apartment and $1,580 for a single room.
This year, Odyssey graduate Sara King is sponsoring the Parasite
Publications Character Awards to provide financial assistance to three
character-based writers wishing to attend. The Parasite Publications
Character Awards, three scholarships in the amounts of $1,920 (full
tuition), $500, and $300, will be awarded to the three members of the
incoming class who are deemed extraordinarily strong character writers,
creating powerful, emotional characters that grab the reader and don't
let go.
Meet Our 2013 Writer-in-Residence
Odyssey's 2013
writer-in-residence, Nancy Holder, is an award-winning, New York
Times bestselling author of adult, young adult, middle grade, and early
reader work, both fiction and nonfiction. She has sold approximately 80
novels and 200 short stories, comic books, and essays in various
genres. She has taught creative writing classes at the University of
California at San Diego, the Maui Writers Retreat and Conference, and other
conferences and colleges, and has been on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA
in Creative Writing for seven years.
Other Guest Lecturers
Lecturers for the 2013 workshop include
some of the best teachers in the field: award-winning authors Holly Black,
Patricia Bray, Adam-Troy Castro, and Jack Ketchum; and the two-time Hugo
Award-winning editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine,
Sheila Williams.
Odyssey Graduates
Graduates of the Odyssey Writing Workshop
have been published in the top fiction magazines and by the top book
publishers in the field. Their stories have appeared in The Magazine of
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy,
Weird Tales, Lightspeed, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine
Show, and Clarkesworld. Some of the recent novels published by
Odyssey graduates are Kitty Steals the Show by Carrie Vaughn,
published by Tor Books; Lies & Omens: A Shadows Inquiries
Novel by Lyn Benedict, published by Ace Books; Spellcrossed by
Barbara Ashford, published by DAW; Silver by Rhiannon Held,
published by Tor Books; and Clean: A Mindspace Investigations
Novel by Alex Hughes, published by Roc Books.
Comments from the Class of 2012
"I learned more in six
weeks at Odyssey than I did in three years in an MFA program." –
Jessie Robie
"Jeanne is the most thorough and hard-working
instructor I've ever met. Odyssey has changed me as a writer. I
can't imagine a finer education or experience." – James Khan
"I was afraid Odyssey would change my writing and take away what
made it mine and unique, but I was so wrong. At Odyssey, I developed a
sense of control over those gut feelings I used to have—when I sensed
something was off but just could not figure out what it was. . . . Odyssey
is like a writer paradise. You might not want to change when you get here,
but you will. Later, you won't want to leave, but when you do, you
leave with a purpose." – Jessica May Lin
Other Odyssey Resources and Services
The Odyssey Web
site, www.odysseyworkshop.org, offers many resources for
writers, including online classes, a critique service, free podcasts,
writing and publishing tips, and a monthly blog. Those interested in
applying to the workshop should visit the Web site, phone (603) 673-6234,
or e-mail jcavelos@sff.net.
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