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Wandering in Cuba Reading at Great Good Place for Books

February 7, 2019Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsGreat Good Place for Books, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Travel, Wanderland Writers

Thursday, February 7th, 2019 || 6pm Great Good Place for Books || 6120 La Salle Ave, Oakland Wanderland Writers introduces WANDERING IN CUBA: Revolution and Beyond … the 6th anthology in the prize-winning Wandering series … Once again workshop leaders Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar take Wanderland Writers and head south to explore—this time to Cuba, an island…

Join me at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference

July 23, 2018Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Conference, Photography, Travel, Writers

The Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference is coming up in August, here, in the Bay Area. I’ll be on Faculty again. This is the most amazing literary conference ever! If you’ve gone, you already know that, and I hope to see you there once more. If you haven’t … for goodness sakes, sign…

Book & Music Festival and 5th Annual Mokule’ia Writers Retreat in Hawaii

May 3, 2017Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsCamp Mokule'ia, Hawaii, HI, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Oahu, Travel, Workshop

Writers Retreat in Hawaii May 7-12, 2017 Camp Mokule’ia, Oahu, HI This week and next you’ll find me at the Hawaii Book & Music Festival and the Mokulē‘ia Writers Retreat in Hawaii. The Hawaii Book & Music Festival is a fantastic two-day fest featuring writers and performers from all over the world. I’ll be reading and…

Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference 2016

July 15, 2016Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Travel, Workshop, Writers

Here’s some great news! Left Coast Writers will receive 10% off on the Intensive Writing Weekend for Y/A and Middle Grade Readers (7/16-7/17/16), the Mystery Writers Conference (7/28-7/31/16) and the Travel Writers Conference (8/11-8/14/16). I’ve been faculty at all of these conferences at one time or another, and I’m happy to report that they are…

Writers Return from Japan

September 19, 2015Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsLinda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Travel, Wanderland Writers, Workshop

We’re back! After wandering all over Japan, the writers have returned with some amazing stories. I’ve heard bits and pieces and can’t wait to read, edit, help publish and celebrate many of those fantastic tales. You’ll find some of them here or on our Wanderland Writers website. For others you’ll need to go to additional…

Going for the Gold: London Book Festival and Paris Book Festival Awards

May 12, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, London Book Festival, Paris antholgy, Paris Book Festival, Travel, Wanderland Writers, Workshop

Two great pieces of news arrived in my e-mail message box this morning. The first piece of super news: They are finally sending the gold stickers for the front cover of Wandering in Paris: Luminaries and Love in the City of Light, the prize-winning anthology of stories produced at our last international literary workshop. You might…

Mardi Gras Memories: Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!

March 4, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsFrench Quarter, Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler!, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Mardi Gras 2014, New Orleans, Travel, Wanderland Writers

1995-02-05 04:00:00 PDT NEW ORLEANS — PINOCCHIO zooms by on roller skates, thin, hairy legs protruding from green lederhosen. Three Elvises swival past, hips rotating like long-playing records. A besequined, masked stranger raises his wine glass and blows me a kiss. Scandalous. Ridiculous. Crazy. Taboo. It’s Fat Tuesday –Mardi Gras, the most delightfully wicked time of…

Only One Spot Left on the Next Wanderland Writers™ Adventure …

January 30, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBritain, Cornwall, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Travel, Wandering in Cornwall, Wanderland Writers, Workshop, Writers

What do Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, John Le Carré, Thomas Hardy, Tristan and Yseult, and Britain’s King Arthur have in common? The lighthouse and castle-studded Cornwall, where their journeys—along those of with many another literary and legendary character—led. We have only one spot left in our next Wanderland Writers™ workshop, the latest in a series…

Here and There: The Irish Coast

March 17, 2013Linda Watanabe McFerrin1 commentContributing Editor, County Cork, Desmond O'Grady, Ireland, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Travel, Travelers' Tales, Wanderland Writers

Remembering a day off the coast of southern Ireland  … ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin Gale force winds, rain, twenty-six-foot seas—we’d hit a bit of a rough spot in the weather on the Irish Riviera, the promoters’ somewhat euphemistic appellation for the strip of resort towns—Youghal, Ardmore, Dungarvan, Cobh and Ballycotton—that dot Ireland’s southern coast and draw…

Blogs vs Journals: Caught in “The Gutenberg Galaxy”

December 22, 2012Linda Watanabe McFerrin5 commentsblog, Graham Greene, journal, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Literature, Marshall McLuhan, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Travel, Writing

Palm Desert, California: December 22, 2012 ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin Spectacular and panoramic morning at 6:30 a.m. on the balcony of my villa at Palm Desert’s Desert Springs Marriott and here I was getting set to rhapsodize about the snow-dusted San Jacinto Mountains in the distance, the towering palms, the Mary-and-Joseph-gee-whiz-I-can’t-believe-it’s-almost-Christmas baby-blue sky with its little…

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