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How Travel Writing Created the First Memoir with Lenore Greiner
June 5, 2021 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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How Travel Writing Created the First Memoir
Did you know that travel writing created the first memoir?
This ancient relationship began in 400 BC when a Greek named Herodotus began traveling and writing letters home, forever conjoining the arts of travel writing and memoir.
Award-winning travel writer and memoirist, Lenore Greiner, will show you how to enrich your writing with travel writing as a powerful prism through which to view the self.
The craft of travel writing allows a writer explore the world outside and the world inside herself. Learn how travel writing will help you:
Capture a place as a character as in Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
Share a healing journey as in Eat, Pray, Love
Make your reader laugh out loud as in Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker and Our Grand Tour of Italy
Learn a basic overview of travel writing within the craft of memoir:
The definition of travel memoir
Travel memoirs throughout history
Types of travel memoirs
Tips on incorporating travel writing into your own memoir
A passionate travel storyteller, Lenore Greiner won a 2021 Gold Solas Travel Writing award for her travel narrative, “From Mill Valley, With Love.” She was honored in Best American Travel Writing 2013, edited by Elizabeth Gilbert. Her piece “Translating Respect” appeared in the Shaking the Tree memoir anthology after earning her Memoir Writing Certificate at San Diego Writers Ink. Her travel writing has appeared in print and online; she’s authored a Las Vegas guidebook and has contributed to 17 guidebooks for Fodor’s Travel Publications. To learn more, visit www.LenoreGreiner.com.