Live Online Workshop with Dr Tom Sykes "When Travel Goes Wrong and How to Write About It"

Description of Activity

I taught an international group of participants from Australia, Canada, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom the following:

How to frame your experience in a way that builds tension, drives momentum, and keeps readers (and editors) reading until the last word.
Building a scene that is vivid, rich in sensory detail, and makes a reader feel like they were right there with you – even if it happened years ago, on the other side of the world.

Traps and pitfalls new travel writers often make when describing negative scenes that render stories unpublishable – and how to avoid them.
The professional ethics of representing other cultures and societies in travel writing. How to be accurate and candid without accidentally sliding into condescension or exoticisation.

Period	10 Sept 2026
Held at	The Intrepid Times, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	International