Odyssey Writing Workshop 2008
08/12/2007 . Source: Jessica Martin 
The 2006 workshop for budding science fiction writers will be held from June 9th to July 18th at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. This year, Odyssey is hosting 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. 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.
The program is held every summer on Saint Anselm College's campus in Manchester, NH (USA).
Jeanne Cavelos, Odyssey's director, is a best-selling former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, where she won a World Fantasy Award for her work.
"I give the same unflinchingly honest, concrete, detailed feedback to students that I provided to professional authors," Cavelos told SFcrowsnest. "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 classes."
This year, Odyssey is hosting 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. Kress is the Fiction columnist for Writer's Digest Magazine and has taught at workshops across the country.
The Odyssey Writing Workshop is also pleased to welcome its 2008 guest lecturers: authors Barry B. Longyear, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, and James Maxey; author Craig Shaw Gardner; and Jenny Rappaport, literary agent with the L. Perkins Agency.
The Odyssey website at http://www.odysseyworkshop.org offers free podcasts, writing and publishing tips, a class syllabus, and more information about how to apply.
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