The Complete Package
June 18-25, 2022
This year we're giving you the opportunity to take both of our exciting, interactive and informative workshops one venue in Charleston, South Carolina. For the first time ever we're offering our two premium workshops, back-to-back. Our Travel Writing & Photography Retreat will take place from June 18-21 and our Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers will be June 23-25.
If you're looking for total immersion in the field of Travel Writing, join us for both workshops.
Here's a little bit about each workshop:
Travel Writing & Photography Retreat
- Are you a writer looking for hands-on experience to improve your travel writing skills?
- Do you want practice using your camera to help tell your story?
- Are you interested in having some exhilarating discussions & soft travel adventures with a small, like-minded group of travel writers?
- Would you love to visit one of the best cities in the United States for culture, food, history, atmosphere and fun?
We’ll spend time together inside the classroom learning about travel writing and photography. There will be lectures, writing exercises, in-the-field tours, group readings & discussions, and hands-on experience to make quick improvements to your writing. You'll also receive one-on-one feedback & goal setting in a session with Roy.
You'll also learn how to produce quality photographs that editors will love. You'll practice by making a photo gallery while you're in Charleston to help you sell and tell your story.
You'll explore the city dreaming up story ideas, writing and making photographs to help you tell your story. This is your chance to visit Charleston, soak in it's unique vibe and brush up on your travel writing and photography skills.
More details about the Travel Writing & Photography Retreat . . .
Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers
Our popular Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers will follow after the Travel Writing & Photography Retreat. In this exclusive program we'll explore, in detail, every single step of my travel writing, pitching and selling strategy. It's only offered once a year. If you want to learn how to break into travel writing, sell your stories to reputable paying print magazines, and get paid -- you need to take this course!
This is your only chance to join us in 2022.
Other
workshops gloss over the details, but that’s not how we do things
around here. You will walk away from this program knowing exactly how to
get sensational paid trips around the world and sky-rocket your travel writing success – even if you’re starting at $0.
Each
workshop is limited to a small number of participants to guarantee a
high quality experience and allow plenty of time for interaction between
your instructors and fellow writers.
Our Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers is the BEST of its kind, ANYWHERE! Our “graduates” have an excellent success rate, with most getting their stories into paying print media.
If
you want to learn how to become a real travel writer & see your
articles & photographs in glossy print magazine and journals, our
master class will help you do that.
More details about the Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers . . .
The Complete Package - 2 Workshops at an unbeatable price:
The Travel Writing & Photography Retreat and
The Marketing Master Class
If you're ready to immerse yourself in the two most important skill-sets in travel writing - writing and marketing - you'll want to sign up for The Complete Package. We've never offered these two workshops together before, and we may never do it again.
This is your chance to launch your travel writing career with the best information available - and to know exactly what to do when you're back home. The Complete Package has it all at a heavily discounted early bird price.
You can take BOTH workshops, back-to-back, in Charleston. You'll spend the first four days working on your writing craft and your photography skills. Then, in the last three days you'll learn exactly what you need to do to sell your stories. You'll also learn how to use your assignments to get complimentary travel perks.
Yes, sign me up!
The Complete Package
Travel Writing & Photography Retreat
and
The Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers
(Regular Price: $2997)
Winter Special: $2197
Class size limited to 25 participants. Please read what's included in registration fee, read the Cancellation policy and our Health & Safety policy.
CANCELLATION POLICY
If you decide to cancel for any reason, we will happily apply the amount you paid to a future workshop either in the U.S. or at an International destination as long as you notify us at least two weeks in advance of the start of the workshop. There will be a small administrative fee of $150. To protect your investment, we strongly suggest you purchase trip-cancellation insurance.
If we must cancel for any reason, we will fully refund registration fees. (Minimum 10 people required / Maximum 25 people)
COVID-19 HEALTH & SAFETY
AT OUR WORKSHOPS
Your safety and comfort when attending our workshops are a top priority. All participants at our workshops must show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in order to attend. You may also be asked to provide a negative COVID test prior to attending.
We will follow all guidelines in effect for the city of Charleston, South Carolina related to COVID-19 policies and procedures. It will be the responsibility of each attendee to follow these guidelines.
You will be notified regarding the current requirements as we get closer to the dates of the events. Unless current guidelines change, wearing a mask will be optional. Workshop seating will not be set for social distancing. Whenever possible, networking events and meals will be held outside.
Please check back regularly for updates or ask questions in our Facebook group.
Last Updated: 5 Feb 2022
About Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico deserves its reputation as one of America’s most diverse and interesting small cities. There’s good reason for its unofficial title as “The City Different.”
As well as being an internationally renowned destination, Travel + Leisure magazine has listed Santa Fe in its “Top 15 Cities in the U.S.” list for ten consecutive years including #2 and #3 rankings.
Conde Nast Traveler’s Reader’s Choice Awards rates Santa Fe as the #4 best city in the “Top 10 Small Cities in the U.S.”
Forbes Magazine ranks Santa Fe as the #3 top destination in the world in the “22 Best Places to Travel in 2022” list.
Described as heaven for foodies and an historic treasure, Santa Fe is also known as one of the friendliest places to visit. With several thriving market areas, historic architecture, and vibrant arts scene, Santa Fe is one of the U.S’s finest and most fun tourist hot spots.
Santa Fe claims the oldest state capital in the United States, founded in 1610. The Palace of the Governors is the oldest continuously occupied public building in the country. The adjacent historic Plaza is 412 years old!
Santa Fe also boasts the oldest church in the United States. The town and surrounding downtown area hold histories, mysteries, secrets and curiosities that can be discovered by guided tours or through locally published books (Collected Words Bookstore on Galisteo Street has many of these books.)
You’ll find historic monuments everywhere with museums, art galleries and boutique shops spread around downtown — and it’s easy to immerse yourself in all of it.
Santa Fe is a gastronomic center of award-winning chefs and more than 400 restaurants. It boasts several chefs who have been nominated for the James Beard “Best Chefs Southwest” awards, with Chef Mark Kiffin owner/chef at The Compound Restaurant receiving top honors.
Find out why red and green Chile appears in Santa Fe foods and drinks where you don’t expect it. If you’re adventurous, try the green chile apple pie, cheesecake, and cornbread. Sample the green chile cobb salad or mac and cheese.
Santa Fe is a culinary mecca due to its first-class chefs and creative menus as contemporary chefs revive old regional recipes and creative fusion dishes for our modern palate. You can take foodie tours, sample world class seafood and feast on authentic southwestern dishes that reflect the city’s unique history.
Travel writers will walk away from this workshop with a multitude of story ideas and a gallery of stunning photographs to go with whatever story you choose to focus on. Santa Fe is a fertile town for travel writers!
Yes, sign me up!
The Complete Package
Travel Writing & Photography Retreat
and
The Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers
(Regular Price: $2997)
Winter Special: $2197
Class size limited to 25 participants. Please read what's included in registration fee, read the Cancellation policy and our Health & Safety policy.
CANCELLATION POLICY
If you decide to cancel for any reason, we will happily apply the amount you paid to a future workshop either in the U.S. or at an International destination as long as you notify us at least two weeks in advance of the start of the workshop. There will be a small administrative fee of $150. To protect your investment, we strongly suggest you purchase trip-cancellation insurance.
If we must cancel for any reason, we will fully refund registration fees. (Minimum 10 people required / Maximum 25 people)
3 Ways to Register:
Testimonials
"Thank you for an amazing week! We learned so many useful tips to improve our writing and photography. We thoroughly enjoyed the dinners, drinks and cooking class. You are so gracious and generous. Your workshop was everything we hoped for and more!
“To our fellow workshop attendees - We had a wonderful time getting to know all of you better. What a talented group of writers! Can’t wait to see everyone’s success over the next year. Happy Holidays!”
- Pam and Gary Baker
“I would like to thank you for all you did for me in Hoi An. You made the classes very relaxed and understandable and passed on a wealth of information. This was the biggest bang for my buck of all the travel writing workshops I’ve attended. I learned more from you in those 5 days than I did in two previous workshops with a competitor. I will definitely recommend your classes!”
- Linda Blair
“I liked the pace of the sessions and blocks of free time – spot on. And I loved the group dinners!”
- Janet MacDonald
“I loved the small size of the group and the relaxed and friendly atmosphere.”
- Jill Friedman
“The balanced curriculum between writing and photography were outstanding”.
- Deb Sittko
“The balance between the workshop, free time, and group events, and the practical, usable advice were great!”
- Annette DeSmedt
“Good scheduling, excellent instruction, good exercises, great discussions.”
- Linda Blair
“Enjoyed the dawn and sunset photo shoots. The photography tips were great.”
- Pam Baker
“The one-on-one time with Roy to get feedback on my ideas and writing were invaluable.”
- Jill Friedman
“The tour of the market and the cooking class were wonderful – never thought they would be so great! Loved the day!”
- Pam Baker
“Just wanted to share something with the group - I've sold a story with photos, about Hoi An since coming home from the workshop. I wasn't going to tell anyone until it came out in print but was feeling like the cat with the canary however, I am choking on the feathers so just had to spit it out.”
- Linda Blair
"Such wonderful memories! The classes in the mornings were informative and provided the detailed info we were looking for. But afternoons and evenings exploring with Roy and Linda were fun and delicious! We toured the marketplace, took a Vietnamese cooking class, learned about local dishes and dined at the best restaurants. And the friendships you form will stay with you!
We had so much fun, but more importantly, we learned a lot! If you're ready to up your game on writing and photography, Roy Stevenson and Linda Popovich are the dynamic duo!"
- Pam and Gary Baker
“Roy Stevenson gives you the whole package, nuts and bolts included. If you want a jumpstart to a successful travel writing career, Roy is your man. As a successful travel writer who has been published in numerous top shelf magazines, he will not only teach you the basics, but he’ll take all the guesswork out of the equation on how and where to sell your stories for publication.
You will learn how to avoid the pitfalls many beginning writers experience, and Roy will lead you to the right path for a successful travel writing career. With honest feedback, “how to” and “what not to do”, you will be able to go home and start doing what you love to do and get paid for it.
When I attended Roy’s Travel Writing & Photography Retreat in Vietnam in December, 2018, he taught me the skills I needed to get started and when I came home I had so much confidence and motivation, I could hardly wait to get started.
Roy’s humble and relaxed style of teaching is easy to understand, informative, and sometimes entertaining. I found this learning experience to be a most memorable one. I would highly recommend Roy Stevenson as a way to get where you want to be in the travel writing world. If you want the most bang for your buck, Roy Stevenson is your man.”
- Linda Blair