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Editor's NoteNick O’Connell
Nick O'Connell T he writing group is a staple of literary life. Whether you’re a dedicated MFA student, a poet trying to compose in prose, or a journalist trying to subvert the inverted pyramid, the writing group serves essential functions: getting your work read and critiqued, providing regular deadlines, and affording the chance to gossip and kibitz over books.
All best, Nicholas O’Connell Publisher/ Editor The Writer’s Workshop Review
Travel, Food and Wine Writing Class in Tuscany -
May 17 - 23 in Montalcino, Italy-
Travel writing, Food writing and Wine writing are some of the most appealing genres of nonfiction, calling on all of an author's skills-dramatic scenes, character sketches, concrete detail, point of view, scene by scene construction-to compose compelling, engaging travel narratives. This writing course will emphasize how to use dramatic outlines in both fictional and nonfictional travel stories. This six-day intensive travel writing class will introduce you to essential techniques of travel, food and wine writing and give you expert, insider advice about how to submit and publish finished travel stories. The course will feature the five best ways of opening a story.
In addition to learning these skills, you'll dine at outstanding restaurants, visit some of the world's best wineries, and explore fascinating historic sights. You'll enjoy exclusive behind-the-scenes tours unavailable to the general public. Best of all, you'll receive up-to-date story ideas from local industry experts that you can turn into finished travel, food and wine stories by the end of the course and submit to newspapers and magazines for publication.
The six-day travel writing class (May 17 - 23) will take place in Montalcino, Italy, one of the most appealing hilltowns in Tuscany, and a center of the region's cultural and epicurian life since ancient times. The cost will be $2,600, which includes accommodations and most meals. (Single supplement, $500 per person) Plane fare, transit to and from Montalcino and some meals extra (see itinerary via link below).
To enroll, please send me a non-refundable deposit of $800 to 201 Newell St., Seattle, WA 98109. Enrollment is limited to 10.
For more information, contact me at nick@thewritersworkshop.net, 206-284-7121, or take a look at my website: http://www.thewritersworkshop.net/travel.htm.
Nicholas O’Connell, M.F.A, Ph.D., is the author of The Storms of Denali (University of Alaska Press, 2012), On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature (U.W. Press, 2003), At the Field’s End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers (U.W. Press, 1998), Contemporary Ecofiction (Charles Scribner’s, 1996) and Beyond Risk: Conversations with Climbers (Mountaineers, 1993). He contributes to Newsweek, Gourmet, Saveur, Outside, GO, National Geographic Adventure, Condé Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sierra, The Wine Spectator, Commonweal, Image, Rock + Ice and many other places. He is the publisher/editor of The Writer’s Workshop Review and the founder of the online and Seattle-based writing program,( http://www.thewritersworkshop.net)
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