Come Along for the Ride: Travel Writing at Its Best

Learn how to layer descriptive details and actions to deepen travel writing.
About this Event

In the personal essay, a flexible and adaptable form, we modulate the tone of our voice to draw our reader close or to let the reader step back. In this course, we will practice using a range of tones in a writer’s voice to explore using the personal essay for travel writing.

Remember that travel writing can document your experiences anywhere you have sojourned: Constantinople, Kathmandu, or Costco.

This class will allow us to explore the expectations of the personal essay and to develop an understanding of how to expand our range of topics using it. We will use a specific and time-proven protocol to respond to the writing of our classmates.

Mary Cecelia Bowman, a fourth generation native Arizonan, is a retired high school English and history teacher who has published poems in The Christian Science Monitor and the Crimson Crane, and human-interest stories in The Arizona Daily Star. She received an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles and is a current student in the MFA program at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. You’ll find her travelling and teaching in Italy unless she’s in Arizona.

This class will include:

· Lecture

· Discussion

· Workshop

· Handouts

· Homework and feedback