Hosted in English | 2 Hours

About the workshop

Travel writing requires you to have a curious eye, an adventurous spirit and a journalist’s flair for writing. This is an advanced level course that will allow you to understand how to up your travel writing game and take it to a professional level. The workshop also includes helpful tips to pitch your stories to editors and publications so you can actually make this your career. Here’s the syllabus for the course: 

• Getting started:
  – Stepping stones
  – Unlearning to learn

• Writing professionally:
  – Why pick travel writing 
  – How to find your own writing voice
  – Developing your story ideas
  – How to identify a niche that interests you
  – Writing right, then editing right

• Let’s do a short writing exercise

• Making a career with travel writing 
  – Assessing the marketability of your ideas
  – Pitching right, aka, making your writing stand out to a magazine editor
  – Making money with travel writing – the long and short of it   

About the host

Shikha Tripathi is a writer based in Uttarakhand, specialising in adventure travel, and with an added interest in culture, sustainability, and ecology. Born and brought up in the Himalayas, she is a certified mountaineer who has participated in multiple outdoor expeditions and written about them. Her travel stories appear in a wide variety of publications and across digital platforms, from National Geographic Traveller to Travel + Leisure, and more.

Shikha has also authored an award-winning children's book on Northeast India's first female Everester, Tine Mena, for a literacy NGO. Most recently, she penned a series of Lonely Planet guidebooks on Nepal. 

You can find her on Instagram as shikhatripathi.travel

What you should carry along

A pen and paper