Turning Your Trips into Tales: The Art of Travel Writing

Submitted by Editor on Sat, 10/06/2012 - 9:58pm
Event Date: 
October 11, 2012 - 6:00pm

Turning Your Trips into Tales: The Art of Travel Writing. Join award-winning author Suzanne Roberts for a one-night travel writing workshop. In this workshop, the basics of writing travel and adventure essays, including crafting your work for an audience, basic revision strategies, and publishing opportunities are discussed. $40/class size is limited, go here to sign up. The event is Oct. 11 and runs from 6 to 9 p.m.

Suzanne Roberts is the author of Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), as well as four collections of poetry, including Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel (2011). Named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic’s Traveler, Suzanne holds a doctorate in Literature and the Environment and teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College and for the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Sierra Nevada College. For more information, please visit her website at www.suzanneroberts.org.