Narrative Writing Workshop

Workshop: Narrative Writing Workshop

Overview: This weekly group meets online via Skype for the purpose of building narrative writing skills in the context of travel writing. Through readings and assignments, students will develop their narrative writing skills. All readings will be available online or will be sent to participants via PDF, so no additional purchases will be necessary. The course is offered in six week cycles.

Course size: This course is limited to 4 participants.

Prerequisites: None, but it is strongly recommended that participants have read all of our travel writing resources.

Facilitators: Heather Carreiro. Julie Schwietert. Kate Sedgwick.

Upcoming dates: Please email Julie at julie@matadornetwork.com for upcoming dates.

Cost: $240 US

About the Instructors

Heather Carreiro

Heather Carreiro is a secondary English and ESL teacher who has lived in Morocco and Pakistan. She enjoys jamming on the bass, haggling over saris in dusty markets, and cross-country jumping on horseback. Currently, she’s a grad student attempting to wrap her tongue around Middle English, analyze Salman Rushdie novels, and eat enough to make her Portuguese mother-in-law happy. Learn more on her blog at ExpatHeather.com.

Julie Schwietert Collazo

Julie is managing editor of the Matador Network and the lead faculty at MatadorU. She’s the contributing author to Fodor’s Puerto Rico (Random House 2010) and Fodor’s Caribbean (Random House 2011), as well as The Voluntary Traveler (Dog’s Eye View 2009). She has written city guides for Sherman’s Travel, AOL Travel, Gayot and USA Today, and her writing and photography have appeared in a variety of print publications, including the in-flight magazines of Martinair and Singapore Airlines, as well as general and special interest magazines, among them, Latina Magazine and DISCOVER Magazine. Most recently, she produced an iPhone app, the “San Juan Insider.”

Kate Sedgwick

Kate’s latest adventure took her to Copiapó, Chile, where she hitchhiked with a clown and sneaked past a press barrier in order to document the mine rescue. Her first edits were press releases and artist statements for Pyro Gallery in Louisville, KY. After becoming a Buenos Aires expat, she was hired as a contributing editor to Matador Nights where she has distilled volumes of text and published across the Network. A photographer, writer, and English teacher, she’s also a volunteer photography instructor with Ojo de Pez.

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