The Odyssey Writing Workshop’s 2010 edition will be its fifteenth. It will run from 7 June to 16 July 2010 at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. The workshop was founded, and is still directed, by former editor and now writer Jeanne Cavelos. This year’s writer-in-residence will be Laura Anne Gilman. Guest lecturers, who are present for one week each, will include Michael A. Arnzen, Gregory Frost, Elizabeth Hand, Alexander Jablokov, and editor David G. Hartwell.
“I give the same unflinchlingly honest, concrete, detailed feedback to students that I provided as a senior editor,” Cavelos said. During the six-week course, she also gives typewritten critiques, handwritten line edits, and detailed assessments of students’ strengths and weaknesses in private meetings.
Class time at the workshop is split between workshopping sessions and lectures, for four hours in the morning five days a week. Students spend another eight hours a day writing and critiquing each other’s work.
Early admission application deadline is 30 January 2010 (regular admission deadline is 8 April 2010). Tuition for the six weeks is $1900, and housing is $775 for a double room ($1550 for a single). For more information and application requirements, see www.sff.net/odyssey.