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FACULTY & DATES:

July 3-9 - Linda Watanabe McFerrin - poet, travel writer, novelist and teacher
July 10-16 - Joanna Biggar - teacher, writer and traveler
July 17-23 - Joanna Biggar - teacher, writer and traveler
July 24-30 - Larry Habegger - travel writer and executive editor of Travelers' Tales

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Each participant may submit a 2,000 - 4,000 word essay or short story about some aspect of travel in France, along the canal, or associated experience for consideration in PASSAGE DU MIDI, an anthology scheduled for publication by Adventure Books in December, 2005.

COST:

USD $2200 includes shared accommodations on motor yacht Lurley, breakfast and lunch, local excursions. Reduced rate of USD $2100 for members of Left Coast Writers (http://leftcoastwriters.com). Early registration before April 1: $100 deduction.

CONTACT:

Barbara Euser, Adventure Books
Tel: 415-454-7171
Fax: 415-454-1205
Email: bjeuser@hotmail.com

[Photographs of Carcasonne copyright 2005 April Orcutt]

SOUTHERN FRANCE / CANAL DU MIDI WORKSHOP 2005 INSTRUCTORS:

LINDA WATANABE MCFERRIN, poet, travel writer, novelist and teacher, is a contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and online publications including the San Francisco Examiner, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Modern Bride, Travelers' Tales, Salon.com, and Women.com. She is the author of two poetry collections and the editor of the 4th edition of Best Places Northern California. A winner of the Nimrod International Journal Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, her work has also appeared in Wild Places and American Fiction. Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber was published by Coffee House Press and named Best Book for the Teen-Age by the New York Public Library. Her collection of award-winning short stories, The Hand of Buddha, was published in 2000. She is also co-editor of a prize-winning travel anthology and the recently released Hot Flashes: Sexy Little Stories & Poems. Linda has served as a judge for the San Francisco Literary Awards and the Kiriyama Prize. She holds an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing. When she is not on the road, she directs art, consults on communications and product development and teaches Creative Writing. (http://lindawatanabemcferrin.com)

JOANNA BIGGAR is a teacher, writer and traveler whose special places of the heart include the California coast and the South of France. She has degrees in Chinese and French and, as a professional writer for twenty years, has written poetry, fiction, personal essays, features, news and travel articles for hundreds of publications including the Washington Post Magazine, Psychology Today, The International Herald Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal. Her book Travels and Other Poems was published in 1996, and she and photographer Ann Hawthorne are currently working on a collaborative book of their adventures on the road in America entitled Roadkill. She has taught journalism, creative writing, personal essay and travel writing at The Writers' Center in Bethesda, Maryland since 1984 and "Spirit of Place" at the Writers' Center of Marin in San Rafael, California.

LARRY HABEGGER, Executive Editor of Travelers' Tales, began publishing his writing about adventure and offbeat travel in 1980. His travel stories have appeared in magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, including Outside, Travel & Leisure, and the Los Angeles Times. In the early 1980s he co-authored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O'Reilly, his old friend from Dartmouth and former disc jockey partner. Since 1985 their safety and security column, "World Travel Watch," has been syndicated in major newspapers in five countries. In 1993 Habegger and O'Reilly founded the publishing company Travelers' Tales with James's brother Tim. Larry and James have worked on more than fifty titles, winning many awards for excellence, including the Lowell Thomas Award for best travel book of the year. For many years, Larry has been an active member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) and the Bay Area Travel Writers. Habegger has visited almost fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the frozen arctic to equatorial rain forest, the high Himalayas to the Dead Sea. He travels whenever possible, feeling that exposure to the greater world and its diverse cultures is the best way to understand yourself. (http://travelerstales.com and http://larryhabegger.com )