The Odyssey Writing Workshop’s 2011 edition will be its sixteenth. It will run from 6 June to 15 July 2011 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 Gary A. Braunbeck. Guest lecturers, who are present for one week each, will include Elizabeth Bear, Barry B. Longyear, Theodora Goss, Christopher Golden, and editor John Joseph Adams.
“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 31 January 2011 (regular admission deadline is 8 April 2011). 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 odysseyworkshop.org.