Webinar: How to write travel features to wow your editor

Meera Dattani chairs our next webinar collaboration on how to write great stories & get re-commissioned

Save the date! Our next webinar collaboration with Meera Dattani is hitting your screens on 29 November 2023 at 1pm GMT. The 75-minute webinar will explore the nuts and bolts of writing excellent travel features to impress your editor and get you re-commissioned time and again.

The panel for this month’s webinar is a cracking line-up of editors, former editors and freelance writers. See below for more detail and book your space via this link (recordings available for those who can’t attend).

The panellists

Phoebe Smith is an adventurer and award-winning presenter, broadcaster, author, photographer and host of the Wander Woman Travel Podcast. With a focus on regenerative travel, wildlife conservation and adventure, she is the current Sustainability Travel Writer of the Year. She is also co-founder of the #WeTwo Foundation, a charity that changes the lives of underprivileged young people using the tool of adventure.

Jane Dunford is Deputy Head of Travel at The Guardian and has been a travel writer and editor for over 20 years, contributing to various publications, from trade titles to newspapers and glossy magazines. She's an advocate for sustainable, ethical travel and passionate about wild, remote places.

Daniel Fahey is a writer, editor, journalist and lecturer whose work has appeared in the Independent, the Telegraph, Time Out, and National Geographic, among others. Fahey has also worked in-house at Lonely Planet. He commissioned guidebooks and articles as a Destination Editor and later identified and developed writing talent as a Content Sources Manager. Today, Fahey works as a freelancer, and commissions and edits digital articles for Lonely Planet.

This webinar is the second in our collaboration curated and hosted by travel journalist and editor Meera Dattani, a freelance travel and culture journalist, senior editor at digital publication Adventure.com and founder of Travel Writing Webinars, with bylines in Wanderlust, Evening Standard, Telegraph and others. Former Chair and Events Director of the British Guild of Travel Writers, she is also a speaker and moderator on external panels about travel writing and the travel industry.

You can now buy the recording of our first webinar on the art of pitching here for just £6.