Saturday April 28th, 10 am-4 pm    San Francisco
$95 members/$110 others
Testimonials for Lisa

Do you love to travel? Keep a travel journal? Why not take the next step and turn your daily scribbles into salable articles? You can do this by learning two things: 1) how to improve your storytelling abilities, and 2) how to market your work.

“I’ll lead you through the steps of writing a travel story and then targeting and querying your markets (short story anthologies, newspapers, magazines and ezines),” says instructor Lisa Alpine.

“We’ll also discuss ways to generate other travel-related sources of income, such as writing press releases and doing guidebook research. Whether you’re writing about your neighborhood or rafting down the Zambezi, you can develop specialty travel angles that open up publishing avenues beyond the Sunday Travel Section—and still pay well. So come launch your career as a travel writer!”

Lisa Alpine: Curiosity about what is beyond the curve of the horizon has fueled Lisa Alpine’s voyaging since she left home at 18 to live in Paris. She has owned an import company (Dream Weaver Imports in San Francisco), published a newspaper (The Fax in Marin County, CA), written a travel column for 12 years for the Pacific Sun, and taught dance and writing workshops around the world for two decades. Lisa is the author of Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled Hearts (Best Women’s Adventure Memoir in the BAIPA 2011 Book Awards). Her travel essays appear in numerous anthologies, including Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing 2011, BATW’s Travel Stories From Around the Globe 2012,  I Should Have Stayed Home, Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why, and Lonely Planet’s Tales From Nowhere. She  is often a guest speaker at numerous travel writer conferences, and is a member of the  Bay Area Travel Writers.