New York City

NEW YORK CITY, New York, United States

Workshop: Ways of Seeing

Overview: This four-hour workshop will help students develop their skills of observation and description. Workshop participants will be immersed in three distinct settings and will be given specific prompts for observing the people and settings around them. After sharing their observations, students will receive feedback about how they can both deepen and expand their ways of seeing, and will learn specific techniques for using these observations in their writing.

Course size: This course is limited to 4 participants.

Prerequisites: None

Facilitators: Julie Schwietert Collazo or Kristin Conard

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

Cost: $160 US

NEW YORK CITY, New York, United States

Workshop: Food and Travel Writing

Overview: Food is a central part of most travel experiences. In this four-hour workshop, participants will learn how to pay more attention to what they eat while they’re traveling, as well as how to write about food in a compelling, memorable way.

Course size: This course is limited to 4 participants.

Prerequisites: None

Facilitators: Julie Schwietert Collazo or Kristin Conard.

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

Cost: $160 US

About the Instructors

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’s produced an iPhone app, the “San Juan Insider.”

Kristin Conard

Kristin graduated with honors Master’s in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Sussex where the focus of her dissertation was a combination creative and research piece on Travel and American Identity. She has taught research writing, creative writing, and business writing at a handful of universities. She is a Matador contributing editor, and she helps run the Nights channel. Having written for publications like SilverKris, WestJet’s up!, New Mexico Magazine, and Brighton’s Latest 7, she is working on a collection of essays and short stories.

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