Writing on the Road

Guatemala

TRAVEL WRITING WORKSHOP IN GUATEMALA
APRIL 12-19, 2007

with award-winning travel journalist Judith Fein
award-winning New Mexican travel editor Pat Reed
and successful travel photographer Paul Ross

WHY WRITING ON THE ROAD?

A colorful “chicken bus” roars down a typical street in Antigua, under the towering Agua volcano.

Writing on the Road is an organization set up to teach travel writing in a real-world setting. Most other travel writing courses invite participants to attend a several-hour or all-day course in a hotel or other similar accommodation. Teachers lecture participants about how to prepare a pitch and structure a story; they also provide information about the business of travel writing. While the information may be good, the technique often doesn’t work. And the reason it doesn’t is simple: This is not the way most people learn best.

Instead, Writing on the Road will take participants who would like to learn travel writing to Guatemala for eight days. In addition to learning what the business is like and how to write those pitches, students will be taught how the best travel journalists travel and how they find or engage in unique situations they can write about. Participants will be encouraged to put these travel techniques to use. They will be sent out to find travel stories. They will write their stories. And they will work carefully with travel writer Judith Fein and travel writer/editor Pat Reed to craft their stories into publishable pieces. Those who would like to learn how to be travel photographers will also have the option of working with photographer/writer Paul Ross.

Fein, Reed and Ross will select the best story written during the eight days, and they will work diligently to find a newspaper, magazine or online site that will publish the piece.

Most travel writing courses are fairly expensive, often costing several hundred dollars a day, not counting accommodations and meals. Writing On the Road provides high value and high quality trips and courses that are affordable.

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