The Premier Conference in the World for Travel Writers and Photographers!
The Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference has an extraordinary, international reputation among publishers, editors, and writers. Now in its 21st year, this four-day Conference offers an array of writing and photography workshops in the morning, a full afternoon of panels and discussions, and evening faculty presentations. There are optional, working field trips to explore the resources of the Bay Area. The faculty includes publishers, magazine editors, photographers, travel essayists, food writers, restauranteurs, guidebook writers, and more. There are hours of informal interaction between faculty and students during lunch and in discussions that often last late into the evening. |
What People Are Saying
"I attended the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference back in 2001. I
placed second in the photographer's contest. Since then I have released
an adventure book which Book Passage has carried, Bulldust in my
Bra: An American Couple's Working Season in the Outback. I'm about to
release the second children's book in a series of ag educational books.
It is being promoted nationwide."
– Rebecca Long Chaney
"Thank
you so much for putting together such a special conference. It was
educational, enriching and fortifying to my mind and spirit. I hope to
make it again next year."
– Lila Martin
"Coming to the Conference for
the first time this year [2005] I was struck not just by the talent and
passion (which are the norm at writing workshops) but by the
friendliness and lack of pretentiousness (which aren't).
Everyone—students as well as faculty—seemed well-read,
well-travelled, curious, engaged, open. If good Americans go to Paris
when they die, good American travel writers go to Corte Madera."
–Thomas
Swick, Travel Editor, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"Before signing up for the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference, I had never published a travel article. After
soaking up information from the conference faculty, I went home and
applied what I'd learned. Thanks to Book Passage, I've written more than
100 articles and 2 travel memoirs, one of which became a bestseller."
– Elliot Hester,
Syndicated Columnist, Author of Plane Insanity and Adventures
of a Continental Drifter
"Don George, John Flinn,
Larry Habegger, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Lynn Ferrin, Robert Holmes and
other instructors at the Conference taught me skills I used in my stories and photographs which
have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San
Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Denver Post, Montreal Gazette, other
newspapers and three anthologies (including the cover photos of one
book). But even if I had never sold a story, the Conference was great
fun, and I made friendships that will last a lifetime."
– April Orcutt,
Travel Writer |
