Thanks to both Antoinette May and Laurie McAndish King for sending this information: The fifth annual Gold Rush Writers Conference will be held April 30, May 1 and 2 in picturesque Mokelumne Hill, the Sierra town that time forgot.

Time is running out to register for Kathryn Abajian’s writing workshop — Italy, in Other Words — in the medieval fortified hill town of Santo Stefano di Sessanio in Italy from June 13-19, 2010.  There are only a few spots left (but contact her even if the website says the deadline...

Many thanks to Laurie McAndish King for calling this to our attention: Are your entries ready for the 26th Annual Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition? The deadline is April 1,

[Editor's note: I attended a different National Geographic Traveler photography workshop, and it was excellent.  -- April Orcutt.] National Geographic Traveler is offering a photography seminar called “The Versatile Travel Photographer” with Ralph Lee Hopkins and Bob Krist in San Francisco...

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for the following professional-development information: Barbara Kingsolver will keynote the Fifth Annual San Miguel International Writers’ Conference, February 19 – 23, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for forwarding this professional development and conference information: Travel Classics International 2010 at Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, Quebec June 24-27, 2010

Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City Thanks to Karen Misuraca for sending this information: Travel Classics international 2010 Announced Next year’s Travel Classics International conference for travel writers and magazine editors will be June 24-27, 2010, at Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec...

Christopher Baker reports that he will be on the faculty and the keynote speaker at the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Institute of Travel Writing & Photography in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 15-17, 2010.

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for sending the latest information about Travel Classics West, which has added even more editors to its conference.  The revised list of assigning editors scheduled to make presentations and meet privately with travel writers includes: Aaron Gell, Editor in Chief, Hemispheres Sarah...