Travel writing for publication

Whether you're writing for yourself or aiming for publication, this weekend will help you enhance your travel writing skills. Combining discussion on the above topics with practical exercises and feedback on your own work, you should finish the weekend with a real sense that you're equipped to take your travel writing to the next level.

Course programme

Friday 30 October 2015

Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other course members in the bar which opens at 18:15. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.

19:00 Dinner
20:30 Introducing your project
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Saturday 31 October 2015

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Knowing your audience
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Developing your sense of place
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free
16:00 Tea
16:30 Creating convincing characters
18:00 Free
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Class feedback on your writing
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Sunday 1 November 2015

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Editing and polishing your work
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Individual feedback
12:30 Free
12:45 Lunch

The course will disperse after lunch