The San Miguel Writers’ Conference is excited to announce that Laurie Gough will be joining us again for the 2012 conference. This year Laurie will be leading a ninety-minute workshop, “Introduction to Travel Writing” where she’ll discuss the various types of travel writing, how to write to catch your readers’ attention, and how to get published.
Laurie grew up in Ontario, Canada and later attended the University of Guelph. Soon after her travel writing started appearing in such newspapers and magazines as The L.A. Times, salon.com, The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, Canadian Geographic, The Daily Express, and many others. Since then, over twenty of her stories have been anthologized in literary travel books including: A Woman’s Passion for Travel, The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, Salon.Com’s Wanderlust, and more. Time Magazine has called her, “one of the new generation of intrepid female travel writers.”
Her first book Kite Strings of the Southern Cross won the ForeWord Magazine’s silver medal, Travel Book of the Year in the U.S. and was also shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Her second and most recent book Kiss the Sunset Pig has received great reviews and one of the stories “Naxos Nights” won second prize in the 2006 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest. The judges said, “It becomes impossible to put the story aside at the finish. It’s a tale to savor, to read and re-read.” Currently Laurie lives in Wakefield, Quebec with her husband and son.
If you’d like to read “All About San Miguel” by Laurie Gough, click HERE.
If you’d like to read an interview with Laurie Gough, click HERE.
And don’t forget there is still time to register for the conference with our “Early Bard Special”
www.sanmiguelwritersconference2012.org
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