Learn Travel Writing in Sunny Key West

With our own Bob Fisher as guide, discover how to shape and market your writing, whether it be for a travel memoir or a book, short articles or material for an app, in the Key West Travel Writing Workshop this winter. After 20 years on its own, the workshop this year will be a part of the Key West Food & Wine Festival, and will be held at the fascinating old Historic Armory headquarters of The Studios of Key West.

Bob has presented the Travel Writing Workshop in Key West since 1991, when it was part of the Key West Literary Seminar. A past president of the Society of American Travel Writers, he is former editor-in-chief of the Fodor Guides and is currently a columnist and contributing editor for www.frommers.com. On the food and wine front, he is a past editor of the English-language guides in the Gault-Millau series, and is a former judge of the James Beard Journalism Awards.

The dates are Wednesday and Thursday, January 26 and 27, 2011, and the price is $300, to include the classes, individual tutoring, lunch both days, and a seat (value of $30) at the Key West Food & Wine Festival's Wine Tasting Seminar on Friday, January 28. (Members of The Studios pay just $275.) The class will be limited to 16 students. If students wish to participate in the optional writing exercises, they should bring a laptop or similar equipment to Key West.

To register or for more information, contact The Studios at Key West at their website, www.tskw.org, by phone at tel. 305/296-0458, or by snail mail at 600 White Street, Key West FL 33040. For more information on the curriculum, visit Bob's websites, www.bobharu.com or www.travelwritingworkshop.org.