Sevengill shark, largest predator in San Francisco Bay, at the Aquarium of the Bay October Meeting: “Using Social Media to Market Your Work” Aquarium of the Bay, Pier 39, Fisherman’s Wharf Thursday evening, October 20, 2011  5 p.m.-8 p.m. Our October 20 meeting is a Thursday evening...

We travel writers and photographers have cause to rejoice that the global travel industry in which we are stakeholders has, yet again, shown an uncommon capacity to regenerate from adversity. Last year, 2010, international tourism rose from the depths of despair that came in the shape of global financial...

Membership Chair Tom Wilmer reports two new members: radio personality Ken Berry of Edible Escapes, KSFO, as an Active Member; and San Francisco resident Laura van Hoff as a Provisional Member. We look forward to meeting both at our upcoming events!

As a service to our members, press releases/news from our Associate Members will be posted on our website (http://www.batw.org/category/news/press-releases/). These will be updated as submitted, so keep on checkin’.  

The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito (a recent BATW host) is holding an open house exclusively for travel media on Friday, September 9, at 10 a.m. The center has graciously extended its RSVP deadline to September 6 for BATW members, so if you’re interested in attending, time is of the essence. Contact...

Jak Wonderly returns to the Rockin H Ranch (site of our fabulous July BATW meeting) on September 10-11 for another of his acclaimed photography workshops. The cost is $295 for 14 hours of instruction and shooting, a portfolio review and a workbook. For more information, please visit http://s2942.at2.pressdns.com/creative-choices-workshop/; e-mail...

BATW member Kathryn Abajian will lead The Heart of Memoir Writing Workshop at Read Booksellers in Danville, on Sunday, September 25th, from
 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Instruction is useful for beginners as well as experienced writers. The class will learn about the narrator’s voice, how to structure...

Edward Hasbrouck’s forthcoming, 5th edition of The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around 
the World is now available for pre-ordering from your local bookstore: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781598808889. It’s also available online: http://hasbrouck.org/PN/  

Lisa Alpine is (justly!) proud to announce that her story, “The Chilean Cliff Carver,” has been selected to appear in Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing 2011, edited by James O’Reilly, Larry Habegger and Sean O’Reilly, with an introduction by Pico Iyer. Her writing partner, Carla...