How to Write a Journey

We travel to see the world - and to find stories to tell. Using great travel-writing examples from Aotearoa and beyond, Dan Keane will show you how to turn your own journeys - both near and far - into memorable stories to keep in your journal and share with friends, family and across all your corners of the internet.

This workshop includes free postcards that will be mailed right from our workshop.

What you can expect to learn:

How to embrace the outsider’s eye

How to avoid the traveler’s cliches

When travel stories belong to you—and when they belong to the place you visit

This workshop is suitable for creative souls at all levels. Everyone is welcome.

Participants of this workshop receive a complimentary Traveler's Company lined notebook (value $10.90) - perfect for writing on the go.

Please bring along your favourite writing tool.

About Dan

Dan Keane writes the newsletter american.nz. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Harper’s, Newsroom, The Spinoff, North & South, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He's been the Bolivia correspondent for The Associated Press, taught writing at NYU Shanghai and the University of Michigan, and is now a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

Venue

Our venue is a historic classroom at Cobblestones Museum. The paths to the classroom are stone-chip but the classroom is fully accessible, including an access ramp.

Refund policy

Due to the bespoke nature of these classes and limited capacity we do not offer refunds. You are however welcome to pass your ticket onto someone else if you can't attend.

You do not need a Stationery Festival ticket to attend a workshop. Workshop-only ticket holders will be met at the entry gate by a Workshop Host, 15 minutes before class begins and escorted to the workshop. You can shop with the vendors after class but to keep classes on time for everyone you will not be able to shop before your class begins.

Tickets to classes do not include a Stationery Festival tote bag.

If you do want a Festival ticket along with your workshop ticket, do not worry if you can't get a time-entry ticket that is before your class begins - if you have a class ticket AND a Festival ticket we will honour whichever is the earliest.