Book Passage Travel, Food & Photography Conference 2010
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.05.10 | 1:07 PM ET
Travel writers and aspiring travel writers, take note: The four-day Book Passage Travel, Food & Photography Conference kicks off a week from today in Corte Madera, California, just a short drive from San Francisco.
It’s a great chance to learn the tricks of the trades from some of the best in the business, including legendary adventure writer Tim Cahill.
I’ll be teaching a class on digital travel writing and blogging with Jen Leo. We’ll cover audio slideshow production, writing travel essays, how to create and maintain a compelling travel blog, and travel-writing ethics in the digital age. Among other highlights on the schedule, World Hum contributor David Farley will teach a class on writing personal travel essays, and columnist Jeff Pflueger will be among those teaching travel photography.
The conference is always one of the highlights of the year for me. As conference chair Don George has said, it’s kind of like summer camp for travel writers.
Beyond that, “The conference’s track record is pretty amazing,” Don said in a recent interview. “Every year at least a few graduates start getting published in newspapers, magazines and web sites as a direct result of lessons learned and contacts made at the conference; in fact, a number of this year’s ‘faculty’ members started out as ‘students’ at the conference.”
We’ve published a number of alumni on World Hum.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
GypsyGirl 08.06.10 | 3:10 AM ET
Look forward to seeing you again this year Jim!
sandeep 09.24.10 | 2:22 AM ET
My studio in New Delhi is very well equipped with the high - tech set-up, designers, expert stylist and staff to hold still photo-shoots any time of the week.