Join Us for Free Travel Writing Lessons on Writing Essays and Mastering AP Style
In the two years since we began running regular one-hour travel writing classes, we’ve covered more than 80 topics, including:
- how to land free trips
- how to get paid really, really well for your writing
- how to get on magazine editors’ good sides
- how to navigate every step of the process to land travel content marketing work, including phone calls and proposals
- how to keep your hourly rate down so your bank account goes up
- how to get work done on the road
- how to write, step-by-step, 15 different types of travel articles
- how to land guidebook and other traditional publishing deals
You can grab access to all of our past webinars (and a ton of other resources you can’t find anywhere else) with a subscription to our Dream Buffet or grab them one-by-one when you need them in our On-Demand Webinar Library for a set with the video, audio, transcript, and slides.
But we also air a free replay of one of our travel writing classes each and every weekday.
Each weekday at 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET (and 9am AEDT Tues-Sat), we show one webinar from our archives, rotating through all of them over the course of four months.
Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:
Monday, June 7, 5pm EST: The Art of the Essay and How to Find Them Everywhere
While some of you are at the point in your writing career of tentatively dipping your toes into the shallow end of the features pool, others of you have drunk the storytelling Koolaid and are looking for what is next.
Where do you go when you’re bored of writing features? What is next?
When you’ve amassed a considerable amount of knowledge about the areas you’ve covered along with writing experience, it’s time to consider the wide world of essays. There is an astonishing number of outlets to place them in, the pay is there, and, most importantly, you have the satisfaction of writing exactly what you want to write.
We’ll cover the landscape as well as how to start diving into writing magazine-style essays.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, June 7.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, June 8, 5pm EST: Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together As-Told-To Feature
For this week’s live webinar, join us as we take a look at As-Told-To Features with examples from markets that you’d love to add to your clip file.
A staple of major magazines, these pieces offer a surprising way to tell the stories of fascinating sources you meet in your travels.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, June 8.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, June 9, 5pm EST: Mastering AP Style: The Grammar Style of Choice for Publications
Showing an editor (in both your pitch and your article submission) that you already understand what she’s looking for is one of the best ways to forge a long-term relationship with an editor. But that goes behind simply familiarizing yourself with the publication.
Understanding and using AP style, the preferred grammar and style format for print and many online publications, can quickly broadcast to an editor that you have solid journalist experience (even if you actually don’t!).
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, June 9.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, June 10, 5pm EST: Mastering Style at a Sentence by Sentence Level
Continuing the groundwork we laid in last week’s call on AP style, we move into writing essentials on a structural level, beginning with sentence structure. I’ll unpack common issues I (and other editors) are increasingly seeing today and how to avoid them in your writing.
If you’ve been primarily writing on your own blog or for clients that don’t have in-house editors, this will bring your writing to the next level so that when you pitch editors, rather than an eyebrow raise and delete, your pitches elicit a sense of professional camaraderie due to your polished prose.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, June 10.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, June 11, 5pm EST: How to Break Your Trips into the Maximum Number of Article Pitches
Does one trip equate to just one story? Certainly not if you’re looking to make a living as a travel writer. In fact, it’s much more normal for full-time writers deriving their entire income from travel writing to place 10-12 articles from one trip–right when they first return.
In this webinar, we discuss the basic tenets of free travel as a travel writer, from ethics to minimum barrier to entry to the different types of trips and their various pros and cons.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, June 11.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Don’t be late! All the free replays start right on time, and the system isn’t able to accept late attendees.
You can read all about our free webinar replays and get answers to any questions you have on our comprehensive FAQ page, or grab any webinars you have missed in our On-Demand Webinar Library.