Georgia Hesse on “To Market To Market”: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:00 a.m. at the Westin St. Francis Hotel BATW Monthly Meeting Georgia Hesse, founding editor of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner-Chronicle Travel Section, shares her strategies from A to Z, for selling your articles in today’s...

New year, new website, more adventures for all of us and for our wonderful organization, BATW, coming up. What an elegant and delicious holiday party a record number of BATW members enjoyed – many thanks to the generosity and hospitality of Associate Member, Bard Nordby, Tourisme Quebec, and his colleagues,...

Hello, Fellow Travel Writers – I’m delighted to join the BATW Board and excited to be BATW’s new Website Editor.  We plan to make the website an even more useful tool for members for showcasing stories and photographs, finding resources and ideas, discovering markets and workshops, and ever-improving...

It’s hard to believe, but we have most of 2009’s programs scheduled and confirmed. Diane LeBow, John Montgomery and the rest of you have been out there promoting us, and it has paid off. In keeping with our board’s guidelines, we have a great line up that includes professional development,...

Rick Smolan to Share the Secrets of Funding Your Own Book Projects: If you’ve ever dreamed of producing a book of your own photography or wondered how to raise sponsorship for a photo project please join photographer Rick Smolan on Tuesday January 13th at Left Space Studios to learn more about...

If you’re a provisional member or an active writer who wants to polish your writing skills, you may find this of interest: Don George, former travel editor of the San Francisco Examiner and former global travel editor for Lonely Planet, is teaching an eight-week Intensive Travel Writing workshop...

The Practical Nomad Discussion of “World Travel In Troubled Economic Times”: Jump-start your next international journey with this talk by Edward Hasbrouck, “The Practical Nomad”. Back in San Francisco after a 13-month, six-continent, 80,000-mile trip around the world and the release...

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for sending information about the 12th annual Northern Lights Awards for Excellence in Travel Journalism and Photography, which is open to magazines, newspapers, independent writers and photographers and Internet reporters in North America. Submit your best tourism-oriented stories...

Bob Ecker and our fine panel of professionals are still judging the entries in our 2008 High School Travel-Writing Contest, and winners will be announced at the February program meeting on Sat., Feb. 21st at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza in San Francisco.

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for telling us that Travel Classics Europe 2009 is scheduled for June 11-14 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Registration begins December 15.  This semi-annual conference brings together 35 qualified writers and a dozen or more of the top magazine editors