The Art of Travel Writing

SATURDAY 6 FEBRUARY

Theatre 1
Time: 1.00pm

EXPERT PANEL SESSION: The Art of Travel Writing
Hosted By: Lyn Hughes, Wanderlust Magazine
Featuring:
Jonathan Lorie, Travellers Tales
Matthew Teller, Rough Guides
David Orkin, Bradt Travel 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:

In 1992 Lyn Hughes and her late husband, Paul Morrison, were bored on a flight to South America and so schemed out their ideal travel magazine on the back of a sickbag. The idea stuck and, returning to the UK a few months later, they launched Wanderlust magazine from their spare bedroom. The magazine gradually grew through word of mouth, and went on to be one of the UK’s leading travel magazines, with numerous awards under its belt. Later this year it will celebrate its 15th anniversary
and 100th issue. Despite the pressures of running a business, Lyn is still a writer and photographer in her own right, and her top interest is still travel. In October 2006 The Times lauded Lyn as one of the “50 Most Influential People in Travel.”

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.

David Orkin is the author of Bradt’s Nova Scotia guide.  He is a freelance travel writer whose work appears regularly in leading UK publications such as The Independent, Wanderlust and Condé Nast Traveller. He has travelled extensively since the mid 1970s and first visited Nova Scotia in 2004.

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