Enjoy an intimate conversation with Lavinia Spalding, editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing series. She will be joined by other contributors to the anthology and discuss travel planning and writing. Come prepared to laugh, listen, share and be entertained while enjoying wine and cheese!

More About Lavinia Spalding
Lavinia Spalding is a writer, editor, teacher, public speaker, and lapsed Luddite. She’s the series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing and the author of two books: Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, and With a Measure of Grace, the Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. Lavinia’s work has appeared in many print and online publications and discussed in a TEDx talk. She also teaches writing and journaling workshops.

Lavinia lives in San Francisco, where she’s a resident of the Writers’ Grotto, faculty of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference and co-founder of the award-winning monthly travel reading series Weekday Wanderlust.
For more information, visit her website.

Faith Adiele is the author of The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide To Lady Problems (Shebooks) and Meeting Faith (W.W. Norton), a travel memoir that won the PEN Open Book Award for Best Memoir; writer/narrator/subject of My Journey Home, a PBS documentary about traveling to find family; and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology (The New Press). A graduate of Harvard University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, she teaches nonfiction around the world, as well as at California College of the Arts, The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and Voices/VONA, where she’s established the nation’s first workshop for travel writers of color. For more information, visit her website.

Erin Byrne writes travel essays, poetry, fiction and screenplays. Her work has won numerous awards including three Grand Prize Solas Awards for Travel Story of the Year, the Reader’s Favorite Award, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist, and an Accolade Award for film. Erin is author of Wings From Victory (Travelers’ Tales, 2016), editor of Vignettes & Postcards From Paris and Vignettes & Postcards From Morocco (Reputation Books, 2016), and writer of The Storykeeper film.  Her screenplay, Siesta, is in pre-production in Spain. She is working on the novel, The Red Notebook.   For more information, visit  her website.

Candace Rose Rardon is a writer, sketch artist, and illustrator whose stories and watercolors have appeared in places such as BBC Travel, World Hum, and National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel site, as well as inLonely Planet’s literary anthology An Innocent Abroad and Travelers’ Tales Best Women’s Travel Writing. She also runs her travel blog, “The Great Affair”, which has been featured in the New York Times, and earned an MA in Travel Writing from London’s Kingston University.

Tuesday, October 6
7:30 PM
Freidenrich Conference Center
$12 General Public | $10 Members and J-Pass holders (What is J-Pass?)