Wanderland Writers editors and award-winning travel writers Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King review assignments accepted and lessons ahead for travelers who share their work in print and in images as they recap the expert messaging during August’s Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference.
Saturday September 13th, 2025 — 2 PM
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
They’ll talk about your work, ways to share it, and what editors and readers want in the coming year. This isn’t just about travel articles, it’s about our own global positioning and the way we share our perceptions of place as we move through the world … including our own backyards.
LCW Founder and award-winning poet, travel writer, essayist and novelist Linda Watanabe McFerrin (Namako, The Hand of Buddha, Dead Love, Navigating the Divide, POST-Apocalyptic Valentine) has served as a presenter and a judge for literary organizations and competitions and led workshops around the world for decades. A long-time faculty member at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference, Linda has mentored a long list of celebrated and award-winning writers toward publication.
Laurie McAndish King is an award-winning travel writer and photographer with an eye for the quirky. Her subjects include 20-foot-long Australian earthworms, an Ivy League astrophysicist’s explanation of how flying saucers are powered, and finding the perfect site for watching eagle sex. King’s essays and photography have appeared in Smithsonian magazine, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Travelers’ Tales’ The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Lonely Planet’s The Kindness of Strangers, and other magazines and literary anthologies. Her three books of travel essays—insightful, poignant and often quite funny—are available from Book Passage: Lost, Kidnapped, Eaten Alive; Your Crocodile has Arrived; An Elephant Ate My Arm.
