This event is presented as part of the 2023 Travel Writers & Photographers Conference and is free for conference attendees. Learn more about attending the conference yourself here.

Join legendary travel writer Pico Iyer as he shares stories, encounters, craft tips, and inspiration from a life on the road. He will be joined in conversation by Don George, fellow travel writer and magic-seeker, and Chair of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference.

Pico Iyer is the acclaimed and bestselling author of more than a dozen books, translated into twenty-three languages. His journalism has appeared in Time, the New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, and more than 250 other periodicals worldwide. His TED talks have been viewed over eleven million times. He divides his time between Japan and a Benedictine hermitage in California.

Don George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet's Guide to Travel Writing and the editor of ten anthologies, including A Moveable Feast, The Kindness of Strangers, Better Than Fiction, and An Innocent Abroad. George is Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler, where he writes feature articles and the monthly Trip Lit column. He is also Editor of BBC Travel's literary travel column, Chance Encounters.

Pico Iyer photo courtesy of the author. Don George photo courtesy of the author.