Expert Panel Session: The Art Of Travel Writing

Sunday 7 February

Theatre 2
Time: 2.00pm
Title: Expert Panel Session: The Art Of Travel Writing
Hosted By: Lyn Hughes, Wanderlust Magazine
Featuring: 
Polly Evans, Bradt Travel Guides
Jonathan Lorie, Travellers Tales
Matthew Teller, Rough Guides

About the Session:
If you’re a budding writer or wannabe travel journalist then don’t miss this session which gives you the lowdown on how to turn your two favourite hobbies of writing and travelling into a potential money-spinner. Our expert travel journos and editors give you an insight into what to write, how to write and what ultimately will sell.

About the Speakers

Polly Evan’s journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the Independent on Sunday, the Sunday Times, Wanderlust, Condé Nast Traveller, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, BBC Wildlife, High Life and Food & Wine. In 2006, she won the Independent on Sunday/Bradt Travel Guides travel-writing competition.  She has written several travel books and is the author of Bradt’s forthcoming guide to the Yukon.

Matthew Teller is a freelance travel journalist, specializing in independent travel. He has been a Rough Guide author for more than ten years and writes regularly for the national newspapers as well as magazines in the UK and worldwide.

Jonathan Lorie is the director of Travellers’ Tales, the UK’s leading training agency for travel writers and photographers. He founded the agency after seven years as editor of Traveller magazine, during which time he commissioned and edited most of today’s greatest explorers, travel writers and photographers. He has worked as a journalist and editor for 24 years, after graduating in English from Cambridge University. He has been a judge of the prestigious Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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