Find Your Niche, Build Your Platform and Establish Your Brand March 20 at 10 a.m. Books Inc. at Opera Plaza in San Francisco Marketing is essential for any writer in this day and age; but even more so for travel writers. Even if you don’t have a book or product to sell, you can still use branding...

photo for "Running Fence" at the Smithsonian photo for "Running Fence" at the Smithsonian (photos © Morton Beebe) Congratulations are certainly in order for Morton Beebe whose photographs will be included in the Smithsonian exhibit Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running...

Laurie McAndish King sends this note about her upcoming event: It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Come and celebrate with me on Monday, February 8. I’ll be reading from my wildly popular (in my dreams) book of rhymes: An Erotic Alphabet. Friends will read from the book I co-edited, Hot Flashes:...

Human Rights, Media and the International Criminal Court When: Monday, February 1, 2010, 12:00 p.m. Where: North Gate Hall Library at the University of California, Berkeley

American Society of Media Photographers (Northern California) event: ReBooting Your Business Brain: 21st-Century Marketing Tips – for Photographers Who Weren’t Born Yesterday

Dave Eggers and the McSweeney’s road show come to Berkeley. When: Thursday, February 11, 8:00 p.m. Where: Sibley Auditorium at the University of California, Berkeley Dave Eggers and his rogue group of writers and editors come to campus to discuss the San Francisco Panorama, a massive print newspaper...

Thanks go to Karen Misuraca for this information: Symposium for Professional Wine Writers at Meadowood Napa Valley: Trade valuable information on how to succeed in today’s writing market with prominent editors, writers and bloggers.

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for this information: It’s that time of year to submit your best tourism-oriented stories and photos published on Canada in 2009. The 13th annual Northern Lights Awards for Excellence in Travel Journalism and Photography is open to magazines, newspapers, independent writers,...

accordian player in Argentina (photos © Camille Cusumano) Here’s a great excuse to head to Argentina: new member (who many of you have known for years) Camille Cusumano is teaching three “Travel Writing 101” workshops in Buenos Aires on: February 11-12, 2010, March 9-10, 2010, and ...

Santo Stefano di Sessanio in Italy (photo © Kathryn Abajian) New BATW member Kathryn Abajian will teach a week-long travel writing workshop in Santo Stefano di Sessanio in the Abruzzo region of Italy on June 13-19, 2010.  Santo Stefano di Sessanio, which is a fortified medieval hill town and a World...