Travel Writing
Course Dates: further dates to be announced
Tutor: Fred De Vries
Cost: R1, 650

Please send an email to register your interest in this course.

Do you travel frequently for business or pleasure and would like to start travel writing on a freelance basis? Are you involved in producing your company’s travel newsletter, website, ezine or travel brochures? Are you about to embark on an extended trip and would like to earn some hard cash while you see the sights? Why not learn how to tap into this extensive and enjoyable freelance market.

Led by experienced travel journalist Fred De Vries, Travel Writing will be run over three consecutive Saturday mornings and will cover the following topics:

  • practical approaches to producing great feature copy
  • integrating your background research
  • pitching your ideas to travel editors
  • getting maximum copy from each trip
  • sourcing or taking eye-catching images to complement your copy

This is a practical course, incorporating weekly exercises designed to reinforce each module and give those attending the confidence to produce well-crafted, media-friendly travel copy. Learn how to avoid the clichés of travel writing while still including the highlights, how to edit your own copy effectively and how to pitch your finished work nationally and internationally.

Fred De Vries

The writer and journalist Fred De Vries has been based in Johannesburg since 2003. He has an MBA from the University of Utrecht and completed a post-graduate course in journalism at the University of Rotterdam and a masters course in advanced writing at Wits University. He is an adjunct lecturer at Wits, was the recipient of a Writing Fellowship from the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and was a judge for the 2004 EU Literary Award. His music and travel book, Club Risiko, was published in 2006 and was nominated for the prestigious Belgian/Dutch Gouden Uil Award. He is currently a freelance travel contributor to the Sunday Times, The Weekender and the Dutch newspapers de Volkskrant, Vrij Nederland and Elsevier.
Read some of Fred’s travel journalism on www.freddevries.co.za

 

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