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Turning your Trips into Tales: The Art of Travel Writing
Travel Writing Workshop with Award Winning Author Suzanne Roberts
Tuesday, October 18th
4 – 5:45 p.m.
Main Library
145 Washington Ave / 87501
Have you ever wondered how to become a travel writer? If so, this generative workshop will help you write about your journeys and adventures, past and future. We’ll discuss different kinds of travel writing opportunities, as well as how to craft an effective travel piece. Topics covered will include keeping a journal; research and audience; concrete detail and sense in setting; the use of effective dialogue and narrative voice; and the development of action and arc. This is a hands-on workshop, so have a paper and pen ready.
About Author Suzanne Roberts
Suzanne Roberts is a travel writer, memoirist, and poet. Her books include the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award-winning Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Bison Books, 2012), the award-winning memoir in travel essays Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), a collection of lyrical essays, Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), and four collections of poetry.
Her work has been listed as “Notable” in Best American Essays and published in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, CNN, Longreads, ZYZZYVA, ISLE, 1966, River Teeth, Terrain, National Geographic Traveler, The Normal School, and Litro, as well as anthologized in The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Tahoe Blues, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly, Poems Dead and Undead, and in two editions of Best Women’s Travel Writing
Suzanne was named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic Traveler Magazine, and Bad Tourist was awarded a gold medal for Travel Essays from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, a bronze medal for Best Travel Book from the North American Travel Journalists Association, was a finalist in the Story Circle’s “Gilda Awards” for Women’s Humor, a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards in Travel, and a finalist in the Foreword Indie Awards in Travel.
Suzanne is a dual American-British citizen and holds degrees in biology and English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno. Suzanne lives in South Lake Tahoe, California and served as the El Dorado County Poet Laureate (2018-2020). She teaches for the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Sierra Nevada University.
This program is sponsored by Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library
2022 Santa Fe Reads
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
El proyecto NEA Big Read es una iniciativa del National Endowment for the Arts (el Fondo Nacional para las Artes de Estados Unidos) en cooperación con Arts Midwest.
