SATW
Institute for
Travel Writing &
Photography
Want to learn
how to be a travel writer-photographer?
The Institute's
intensive one-weekend travel writing course is
the way to jump-start a career or to accelerate one,
and to make valuable
professional contacts.
The 14th annual SATW Institute
for Travel Writing and Photography will
take place from January 9-11, 2009,
in Orlando, Florida, presented by the Society
of American Travel Writers in
cooperation with the Orlando
Downtown Development Board and
the Orlando/Orange
County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The one-weekend institute
(Friday-Sunday) is for writers,
travel writers, photographers and
experienced travelers who
want to learn travel writing and photography
for articles and guidebooks or who already
are travel writers and photographers and
who want to improve their performance.
This course teaches how
to prepare article and photo queries and
book proposals,
how to negotiate contracts,
how to work with editors,
how to organize your time,
how to self-publish your
own work, and how to develop all Internet
opportunities.
The aim of the institute
is to prepare authors and photographers
to make
a good living writing
quality travel articles and guidebooks
that serve the public well. The
institute also serves active travelers who
want to travel more authoritatively and
keep better journals, and travel
photographers,
amateur and professional, who want to take
better photos and earn more money from
them.
Here
are some graduates' comments.
(Please do not confuse the SATW
Institute with travel
writing courses, books or programs that
tout
"luxury
travel for free," or "get paid
to travel the world." There is no
quick or easy way to professional standing
as a travel
writer. However, the SATW Institute is
an intensive
real-world professional travel writing
training session that
can help you start or improve your career, and ultimately
achieve professional status.)
Institute Program & Schedule
Institute Faculty
