BATW has formed a partnership, this year, with the Bay Area Travel & Adventure Show, which runs Feb. 18 and 19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The Travel & Adventure Show is the nation’s largest active and adventure travel show, showcasing worldwide destinations and vacation packages....

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...

If you’re interested in attending the popular Book Passage Travel & Food Writing & Photography Conference held in Corte Madera, act now! Event dates are August 11-14. Featured are Tim Cahill, Don George, Robert Holmes, Shelley Lindgren and more!

February BATW Meeting: BATW Student Travel Awards & Speaker Laura Fraser February 19, 2011 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Location: Books, Inc. 601 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco The final results for the BATW 2011 Student Travel Writing Contest are in. We are proud to announce the winners: 1st place...

For those of you who missed — or who really enjoyed — the January meeting about creating apps, Suzie Rodriguez and Laurie McAndish King will be teaching ”App Happy,” a class packed with information designed to help travel writers and others understand how to develop and market...

New member Laura Deutsch sends this information about a writing retreat she will teach in Tuscany this fall: Join Laura Deutsch for a week of writing and traveling in Tuscany and Umbria. Our writing will be inspired by medieval hill towns, Renaissance art, peaceful landscapes and lively markets. Includes...

Lisa Alpine has two very different travel-writing workshops coming up: Saturday, February 5, 2011 (10 am-4 pm) Travel Writing: Mapping Out the Route to Your Dream Profession Fee: $110 The Writing Salon · Berkeley, CA April 13-22, 2011 Capturing the Adventure in Africa: Writing Travel Vignettes...

January 15th BATW Meeting: “What About Creating an App?” Kim Grant from Sutro Media will talk about Apps El Rancho Hotel & the Terrace Grill in Millbrae 10 a.m. Members and prospective members only (Please RSVP by Jan. 11. RSVP directions below) At the monthly BATW meeting on Jan....

Here’s a practical event from ASPM. – - – - – - – - – - The American Society of Media Photographers (ASPM) is holding an event about “A Photographer’s Guide to Model Releases” on Tues., Nov. 9, 2010 "A Photographer's Guide to Model Releases"...