TO A 2025 LITERARY INTENSIVE SET IN PROVENCE WITH AUTHOR AND EDITOR LINDA WATANABE MCFERRIN AND LITERARY AGENT ANDY ROSS September 24 to October 1, 2025 “When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence. — Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral, winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature …
What are you doing Sunday morning? JOIN me on Sunday, December 1, for a book chat with travel industry leader Pauline Frommer on Frommer’s Podcast. The podcast features an assortment of travel pros—journalists, Frommer’s staffers, and other industry insiders discuss trending travel topics and dive deep to explore the human instinct to wander in her…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
