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Where:
Seminar:
Bahen Centre for InformationTechnology
University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street.
Cheers with Peers: O'Grady's Tap and Grill, 171 College Street
Time: 7
p.m. Register
7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Seminar including Q&A
Followed by 'Cheers with Peers' networking social
*NOTE: 'Cheers with Peers' is 'pay your own way'
Seminar Cost:
FREE for PWAC Members/Students
Only $15 for Non-members
REGISTER ONLINE
with PayPal
For more information email s.aschaiek@pwactoronto.org
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PWAC Toronto Chapter presents
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Our November 2009 monthly evening seminar
series designed especially for writers!
New Horizons: Taking the Travel Writer's Road presented in partnership with
Ryerson University's G. Raymond Chang School
of Continuing Education
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
followed by our popular 'Cheers with Peers' networking social!
Experienced panelists will share their insights on what it really takes
to succeed as a travel writer, how to develop a specialty, and how to
leverage social media and networking opportunities to boost your
business. As well, they'll reveal some of their most interesting and
funny stories from the field, and will share their top dos and don'ts
for effective travel writing.
Mariellen Ward
is a Toronto-based freelance writer and editor with a BA in
journalism. Travelling in India is her passion. Over the course of three trips
totalling 11 months, she has been to 12 states, five ashrams and one Ayurvedic
resort; she has studied yoga, fallen in love, lived with an Indian family in
Delhi and volunteered to work with Tibetan refugee children in Dharamsala. She
has travelled across India by autorickshaw, cycle rickshaw, car, taxi, train,
elephant, camel and motorcycle, and loved every minute, except the one where
she saw the giant spider in her bathroom. Mariellen studies yoga and Hindi in
India and Canada and writes a blog about "all things India" (but
mostly travel) at Breathedreamgo.com. Mariellen has published articles in The
Toronto Star and in magazines such as Dreamscapes, Acura Style and Aeroplan's
Arrival, and on many Internet sites and blogs, including Transitions Abroad,
The Matador Network, Trazzler, Examiner.com: Sustainable Travel,
Solotravelerblog, and Journeywoman "10 tips for women traveling in India
and She packs for India".
As a new travel writer,
Mariellen will be speaking about how to break into this line of work,
and how to use social media to boost your career prospects in this area.
Michelle Sponagle
has been a globetrotting journalist for more than a decade. She has
written travel features for some of Canada's top publications,
including Flare, Chatelaine, Reader's Digest, The Toronto Star and
CanWest News Service. She has sampled hotel beds in more than 50
countries, from Kenya to Kamloops, from Boston to Bali. In the line of
duty, she has tracked elephants in the Masai Mara, fished for piranha
in the Amazon and partied in Dawson City under the midnight sun.
Michelle's
presentation will encompass the following theme: Tales from the travel
trenches: The good, the bad and the ugly of being a globetrotting
journalist. It will be a bit of a reality check for people who think
that travel writing is an easy gig. She'll share some of her stories
from the 100+ media trips she's been on-drunk PR people, obnoxious
journalists who pout about not liking their hotel rooms, copious tours
of hotel meeting rooms, and 4 a.m. wake-up calls to catch flights.
Mike Keenan
is a freelance writer, photographer, newspaper and magazine columnist,
award-winning poet and editor. He publishes and editswhattravelwriterssay.com, a monthly newsletter that features travel
tips, destination reviews and industry news. For the last 10 years,
Mike has written a weekly seniors' column for the St. Catharines
Standard called The Politics of Place, which focuses on international
venues and contemporary issues; and travel pieces for the St.
Catharines Standard, Niagara Falls Review, and Welland Tribune. Mike
also writes a monthly travel column for the Retired Teachers of
Ontario, and has contributed travel stories to publications such as
Niagara Life, Anchor, Canadian Traveller, and The Globe and Mail. Mike
is past president of the Canadian Authors Association, Niagara chapter;
he has taught a writing course at Chautauqua Institution in New York;
and, is currently co-chair of the Ontario Chapter of the Travel Media
Association of Canada. Mike will focus on the importance of
networking to being a successful travel writer, including through
organizations such as the Travel Media Association of Canada and will
talk about the travel writers' website he publishes and edits,
www.whattravelwriterssay.com.
Alex Bozikovic
is an editor with The Globe and Mail's travel section, where he edits
trend and destination features and writes The Goods, a weekly roundup
of travel news. He has also written travel features about a four-star
Dutch hotel that's staffed by students, the gentrification of New
York's skid row, and an elevated railroad line that's been turned into
a park. A National Magazine Award winner, he writes about architecture,
cities and travel for magazines in Canada, the U.S. and Europe including Dwell and Departures.
Alex
will discuss travel writing from the perspective of an editor,
including the top qualities he seeks in travel writers, what makes for
a good travel writing query, and how travel writers can succeed at
writing for major publications such as The Globe and Mail.
Time: Registration 7 p.m. Seminar 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Where: Room 1220, Bahen Centre for Information Technology at University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street
Cost: FREE for PWAC members/students, $15 for non-members
Post-seminar Cheers with Peers networking at O'Grady's Tap & Grill, 171 College St.
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