{"id":98,"date":"2018-09-25T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odysseyworkshop.org\/newsite\/wordpress\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:48:16","slug":"lecturers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.odysseyworkshop.org\/about-the-workshop\/lecturers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecturers"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Your Personal Odyssey Guest Lecturers” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Actor%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=””]Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop offers a wide array of guest lecture recordings, and new lectures are added each year. Guests choose a topic important to them and present it in the way they feel is most helpful, providing their own unique insights and perspectives. Most lectures last about 2 hours. Some include the guest leading students through a writing exercise.<\/p>\n

The program includes guest lectures by some of the best teachers in the field: award-winning authors P. Dj\u00e9l\u00ec Clark, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jill Tew, Melissa Scott, P. A. Cornell, Tim Waggoner, David Corbett, Eric James Stone, Nisi Shawl, Greg van Eekhout, Barbara Ashford, and award-winning author and editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction<\/em><\/a> Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas; bestselling authors R. F. Kuang, Steven Barnes, Carrie Vaughn, E. C. Ambrose, Brandon Sanderson, Meagan Spooner, Maggie Stiefvater, and Gregory Ashe; award-winning literary agent Arley Sorg; and award-winning editor\/publisher Scott H. Andrews of Beneath Ceaseless Skies<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Your Personal Odyssey also includes recordings of one-hour guest question-and-answer sessions. Most of the lecturers listed above also participated in Q&A sessions. In addition, we have Q&As by bestselling author David Brin and award-winning editors John Joseph Adams of Lightspeed<\/em> and Nightmare<\/em> and Sheila Williams of Asimov’s Science Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Jeff Pert Memorial Lecturer<\/h4>\n

\"Jeff<\/a>The Jeff Pert Memorial Fund seeks to enrich the educational experience of students in Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop by adding a new guest lecture each year. The fund is named in honor of Jeff Pert (pictured on the left with Odyssey writer-in-residence Robert J. Sawyer), Odyssey class of 2006, who was a great support to his classmates and to Odyssey alumni. The Jeff Pert Memorial Lecture is held live online, with an audience of up to fifty Odyssey graduates and applicants, and then added to the video library of Your Personal Odyssey to allow many writers to learn from this special guest.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”Guest Lecturers’ Bios” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Actor%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1769704522879{background-color: #D1D1D1 !important;}”][vc_raw_html]JTNDJTIxLS1MRUNUVVJFUlMlMjBCSU9zJTIwLS0lMjBUaGlzJTIwaXMlMjBhJTIwVGFicyUyMFBybyUyMFRhYi4lMjBHbyUyMHRvJTIwVGFicyUyMFBybyUyMHRvJTIwRURJVC0tJTNFJTBBJTVCVEFCU19QUk8lMjBpZCUzRDE4NzQxJTVE[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”17606″ img_size=”medium” onclick=”custom_link” css=”” link=”https:\/\/odysseyworkshop.org\/resources\/podcasts\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1781993857172{padding-top: 25px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

To listen to past lectures, please visit our Odyssey Podcast<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

2021 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
    \n
  • David Farland<\/span><\/li>\n
  • <\/span>Scott H. Andrews<\/li>\n
  • Gregory Ashe<\/li>\n
  • Melissa Scott<\/li>\n
  • P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark<\/li>\n
  • Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas<\/li>\n
  • Megan Spooner<\/li>\n
  • David Brin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

    2020 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
      \n
    • Brandon Sanderson<\/li>\n
    • Eric CJames Stone<\/li>\n
    • Scott H. Andrews<\/li>\n
    • J. G. Faherty<\/li>\n
    • Sheila Williams<\/li>\n
    • Barbara Ashford<\/li>\n
    • Carrie Vaughn<\/li>\n
    • John Joseph Adams<\/li>\n
    • E. C. Ambrose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

      2019 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
        \n
      • Neil Clarke<\/li>\n
      • Nisi Shawl<\/li>\n
      • Scott H. Andrews<\/li>\n
      • Fran Wilde<\/li>\n
      • Paul Witcover<\/li>\n
      • Joshua Blimes<\/li>\n
      • Sara King<\/li>\n
      • Holly Black<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

        2018 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
          \n
        • Theodora Goss<\/li>\n
        • Nisi Shawl<\/li>\n
        • Scott H. Andrews<\/li>\n
        • E. C. Ambrose<\/li>\n
        • Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n
        • Gary A. Braunbeck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

          2017 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
            \n
          • J. A. White<\/li>\n
          • Gemma Files<\/li>\n
          • David Brin<\/li>\n
          • Michael J. Sullivan<\/li>\n
          • E. C. Ambrose<\/li>\n
          • Alex Jablokov<\/li>\n
          • Mark Gottlieb<\/li>\n
          • Meagan Spooner<\/li>\n
          • Dan Chaon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

            2016 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
              \n
            • Mary Robinette Kowal
              \n2016 Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
            • Patricia Bray<\/li>\n
            • Meagan Spooner<\/li>\n
            • N. K. Jemisin<\/li>\n
            • Deborah DeNicola<\/li>\n
            • Scott H. Andrews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

              2015 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                \n
              • Kij Johnson
                \n2015 Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
              • Brendan DuBois<\/li>\n
              • E. C. Ambrose<\/li>\n
              • Alma Alexander<\/li>\n
              • Alex Hughes<\/li>\n
              • Jennifer Jackson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                2014 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                  \n
                • Melanie Tem
                  \n2014 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                • Steve Rasnic Tem
                  \n2014 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                • Catherynne M. Valente<\/li>\n
                • Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n
                • Alexander Jablokov<\/li>\n
                • Delia Sherman<\/li>\n
                • Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n
                • Gordon Van Gelder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                  2013 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                    \n
                  • Nancy Holder
                    \n2013 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                  • Holly Black<\/li>\n
                  • Patricia Bray<\/li>\n
                  • Adam-Troy Castro<\/li>\n
                  • Jack Ketchum<\/li>\n
                  • Sheila Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                    [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                    2012 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                      \n
                    • Lane Robins
                      \n2012 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                    • Elaine Isaak<\/li>\n
                    • Paul Park<\/li>\n
                    • Craig Shaw Gardner<\/li>\n
                    • Barbara Ashford<\/li>\n
                    • Jennifer Jackson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                      2011 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                        \n
                      • Gary A. Braunbeck
                        \n2011 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                      • Barry B. Longyear<\/li>\n
                      • Elizabeth Bear<\/li>\n
                      • Theodora Goss<\/li>\n
                      • Christopher Golden<\/li>\n
                      • John Joseph Adams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                        [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                        2010 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                          \n
                        • Laura Anne Gilman
                          \n2010 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                        • Alexander Jablokov<\/li>\n
                        • Michael A. Arnzen<\/li>\n
                        • Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n
                        • Gregory Frost<\/li>\n
                        • David G. Hartwell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                          [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                          2009 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                            \n
                          • Carrie Vaughn
                            \n2009 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                          • Patricia Bray<\/li>\n
                          • Jeffrey A. Carver<\/li>\n
                          • Jack Ketchum<\/li>\n
                          • Melissa Scott<\/li>\n
                          • Ginjer Buchanan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                            [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                            2008 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                              \n
                            • \u00a0Nancy Kress
                              \n2008 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                            • Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n
                            • Delia Sherman<\/li>\n
                            • Barry B. Longyear<\/li>\n
                            • James Maxey<\/li>\n
                            • Craig Shaw Gardner<\/li>\n
                            • Jenny Rappaport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                              [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

                              2007 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                \n
                              • Nina Kiriki Hoffman
                                \n2007 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                              • Michael A. Burstein<\/li>\n
                              • Rodman Philbrick<\/li>\n
                              • Michael A. Arnzen<\/li>\n
                              • Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n
                              • George Scithers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                2006 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                  \n
                                • Robert J. Sawyer
                                  \n2006 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                • Melissa Scott<\/li>\n
                                • Jeff VanderMeer<\/li>\n
                                • Laurie J. Marks<\/li>\n
                                • Christopher Golden<\/li>\n
                                • Shawna McCarthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                  [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                  2005 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                    \n
                                  • Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem
                                    \n2005 Special Writers-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                  • Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n
                                  • Allen M. Steele<\/li>\n
                                  • P. D. Cacek<\/li>\n
                                  • James Morrow<\/li>\n
                                  • John Clute<\/li>\n
                                  • Sheila Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                    [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                    2004 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                      \n
                                    • George R. R. Martin
                                      \n2004 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                    • Catherine Asaro<\/li>\n
                                    • Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n
                                    • Delia Sherman<\/li>\n
                                    • Bob Mayer<\/li>\n
                                    • Barry B. Longyear<\/li>\n
                                    • Gardner Dozois<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                      [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                      2003 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                        \n
                                      • Gene Wolfe
                                        \n2003 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                      • Roland J. Green<\/li>\n
                                      • Melissa Scott<\/li>\n
                                      • Bruce Holland Rogers<\/li>\n
                                      • Lori Perkins<\/li>\n
                                      • John Crowley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                        [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                        2002 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                          \n
                                        • Charles de Lint
                                          \n2002 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                        • James Patrick Kelly<\/li>\n
                                        • Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n
                                        • R. A. Salvatore<\/li>\n
                                        • Thomas F. Monteleone<\/li>\n
                                        • Matthew Bialer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                          [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                          2001 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                            \n
                                          • Terry Brooks
                                            \n2001 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                          • Allen M. Steele<\/li>\n
                                          • Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n
                                          • F. Paul Wilson<\/li>\n
                                          • Delia Sherman<\/li>\n
                                          • Craig Shaw Gardner<\/li>\n
                                          • Donald Maass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                            [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                            2000 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                              \n
                                            • Dan Simmons
                                              \n2000 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                            • Ellen Datlow<\/li>\n
                                            • Melissa Scott<\/li>\n
                                            • Charles L. Grant<\/li>\n
                                            • Barry B. Longyear<\/li>\n
                                            • Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                              [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                              1999 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                                \n
                                              • Ben Bova
                                                \n1999 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                              • Jeffrey A. Carver<\/li>\n
                                              • Terry Bisson<\/li>\n
                                              • Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n
                                              • R. Patrick Gates<\/li>\n
                                              • Scott Edelman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                                [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                                1998 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                                  \n
                                                • Harlan Ellison
                                                  \n1998 Special Writer-in-Residence<\/li>\n
                                                • Patricia A. McKillip<\/li>\n
                                                • John Crowley<\/li>\n
                                                • James Morrow<\/li>\n
                                                • Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n
                                                • Delia Sherman<\/li>\n
                                                • Warren Lapine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                                  [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                                  1997 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                                    \n
                                                  • Melissa Scott<\/li>\n
                                                  • Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n
                                                  • Delia Sherman<\/li>\n
                                                  • Michael McDowell<\/li>\n
                                                  • Esther Friesner<\/li>\n
                                                  • Elizabeth Hand<\/li>\n
                                                  • Warren Lapine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                                    [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

                                                    1996 Guest Lecturers:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
                                                      \n
                                                    • Hal Clement<\/li>\n
                                                    • Craig Shaw Gardner<\/li>\n
                                                    • Ellen Kushner<\/li>\n
                                                    • Delia Sherman<\/li>\n
                                                    • Jane Yolen<\/li>\n
                                                    • Elizabeth Hand L<\/li>\n
                                                    • Leigh Grossman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                                      [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                                                      [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Your Personal Odyssey Guest Lecturers” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Actor%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=””]Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop offers a wide array of guest lecture recordings, and new lectures are added each year. Guests choose a topic important to them and present it in the way they feel is most helpful, providing their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":274,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-page-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t