Food & Travel Writing
Begins Tuesday, March 16
We all have memories of meals and travels that have changed our lives or the way we look at the world. This four-week course will teach you how to turn those memories into captivating stories or essays.
Using essays to get us started by MFK Fisher, Julia Reed, Bill Bryson and Calvin Trillin, we’ll explore our relationship with food, family, emotion and identity. We’ll experiment with the way in which travel enlightens us and makes us understand “home” more clearly.
In-class prompts and take-home assignments will get you writing and student workshopping will give you useful critical feedback, as well as teach you how to improve your own critical reading skills.
Who Should Attend: This class is open to writers at all levels and with all levels of experience.
About the Instructor: Kate Ancell is a writer and journalist, who has covered every topic under the sun and lived to tell the tale. While living in London Kate was a managing editor for Conde Nast, wrote an award-winning cookbook and argued for American Thanksgiving and Christmas Present for Britain’s Food Illustrated. She also regularly covers Mind Body Soul, travel, home design and everything in between for magazines as disparate as Hallmark, Vogue and Brides. She is very excited to be a part of StoryStudio Chicago.