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| A Wolfe at the Door
Odyssey, the summer creative writing workshop for science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors, will feature award winning SF author Gene Wolfe as the special writer-in-residence for its summer '03 session. How on Urth did they manage that?
Wolfe, the recipient of three World Fantasy Awards, two Nebula Awards, the British Fantasy Award, the British Science Fiction Award, and the Deathrealm Award among others, has also taught at Clarion East, Clarion West, and creative writing at Columbia College. The six-week SFF workshop, held on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University from June 10th-July 19th, combines a learning and writing experience with in-depth feedback on students' manuscripts. New to the program this year are the Gandalf Grants, which were created to provide financial assistance to writers wishing to attend the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor and graduate of the program, Odyssey will offer three scholarships to the most promising writers of the class of 2003 in the amounts of $1,250, $500, and $250. Winners will be selected from the incoming class by a board of professional authors. Judges will base their decision on the quality of the short story or novel selection sent with the application; no separate application is required. Scholarship monies will be applied directly to tuition for the 2003 workshop. The workshop is also excited to announce its featured 2003 guest lecturers: action specialist author Roland J. Green, thrice time Lambda Literary Award winner author Melissa Scott, the award winning creative writing teacher and author Bruce Holland Rogers, and literary agent Lori Perkins among others. The lecturers will help guide and inspire the students, as experts in each of their diverse fields. Odyssey was founded in 1995 to provide up-and-coming genre writers the guidance and support necessary to become professionals. In fact, almost half of Odyssey's students have gone on to publish their works. Past lecturers that have taught at Odyssey are such notable authors as Dan Simmons, Terry Brooks, Ben Bova, and Jane Yolen. Jeanne Cavelos, Odyssey's founder and director, is an author and former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, as well as a winner of the World Fantasy Award. "We provide a supportive yet challenging, energizing environment for writers of fantastic fiction," Cavelos said. "Odyssey is for developing writers who want to put aside all their other concerns for six weeks and focus solely on their writing. The class meets for three hours in the morning, five days a week, and students use the afternoons and evenings to write and read each other's work." Tuition for the course is $1, 280 and housing in on-campus townhouses runs $367.50 for the six weeks. Students have the option of receiving college credit. Prospective students must apply by April 15th 2003. To find out more, surf on over to their website at http://www.sff.net/odyssey, or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Odyssey, 20 Levesque Lane, Box G, Mont Vernon, NH 03057, United States.
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Odyssey,
the US summer creative writing workshop for budding science fiction,
fantasy, and horror authors, will now host award winning Gene Wolfe
as the special writer-in-residence at its 2003 summer session. 
He
has been writing science fiction for 46 years and most popular works
include On Blue's Waters, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel
of the Autarch, and The Urth of the New Sun. 
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