Evènman Vityèl
Gratis
Wednesdays, February 12 – March 11 (5 weeks)
7 – 9 p.m. | MDC Wolfson Campus, Downtown Miami
During this course, students work on travel stories with the intent of eventually publishing them. Discover the seven key elements – a personal voice, a point of view, imagination, insight, humor, people, dialogue – and how best to incorporate them into your stories. Learn about the importance of finding a theme – something that ties your disparate and seemingly random experiences of a place together – and creating a narrative arc and, if possible, a sense of suspense (so readers will keep reading). As examples of how it’s done, we will read excerpts from the instructor’s and other travel writers’ works. Toward the end of the course, we will talk about the markets – both print and online – for travel stories, and practice how to write an efficient and appealing query letter.
Thomas Swick is the author of a travel memoir, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland; a collection of travel stories, A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler; and, most recently, The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them. From 1989 to 2008, Swick was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. His work has appeared in The American Scholar, The North American Review, The Oxford American, The Wilson Quarterly, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, The Morning News, Roads & Kingdoms and six editions of Pi bon tèks vwayaj Ameriken yo.
Fwa Liv Miami ap ofri de (2) bous etid konplè pou etidyan MDC ki enterese patisipe nan atelye ekriti kreyatif ki mansyone pi wo a. Kandida yo dwe etidyan ki enskri kounye a (a plen tan oswa a tan pasyèl) nan Miami Dade College, k ap pouswiv yon diplòm, e ki demontre yon bezwen finansye.
Please send an email to Lissette Mendez, Miami Book Fair programs director at [email protected] Anvan kòmansman atelye ou ta renmen patisipe ladan l. Mesaj la dwe gen ladan enfòmasyon kontak ou, tit atelye ou ta renmen pran an, yon deklarasyon kout sou bezwen finansye ou, orè klas MDC ou, ak yon echantiyon ekriti. Moun k ap ekri pou premye fwa ki pa gen yon echantiyon ekriti ta dwe soumèt yon deklarasyon ki esplike enterè yo nan atelye a.