Eating & Drinking & Writing for Cash

with Rachel Werner

Genres: Nonfiction

Online

Introductory

4 Sessions

Start Date: April 24, 2022
End Date: May 22, 2022
Day of Week: Sunday
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm PT
Capacity: 15 seats
Member Price: $216.00
General Price: $240.00

Introductory | In this “crash course” in researching and writing travel content, students will explore communicating a sense of place using humor, personal narrative, listicles, and social commentary. Participants will have a Q&A with travel media professionals about how to connect with regional travel bureaus as a writer and will practice pitching content to a variety of publications.

Rachel Werner

Rachel Werner

she/her

Rachel Werner is a teaching artist for Hugo House, The Loft Literary Center, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop in addition to being the founder of The Little Book Project WI. Her literary writing and craft essays have been featured by Off Menu Press, Digging Through The Fat, and Voyage YA Literary Journal. A selection of Rachel's recipes is included in Wisconsin Cocktails (UW-Press, 2020), and her poetry in the anthology Hope Is The Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic (The Wisconsin Historical Society, 2021). She also regularly contributes content to TheKitchn, The Spruce Eats, and Fabulous Wisconsin. Her latest book, Glow and Grow: A Brown Girl's Positive Body Guide (Free Spirit Publishing), is forthcoming in fall 2024.

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