Setting as Character: Applying Craft Lessons From Travel & Food Writing to Your Fiction, Starts Monday, April 21st, 2025

Begins Monday, April 21st, 2025 Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Are you ready to transport your readers to vivid, unforgettable worlds? In this immersive four-week workshop, travel and food writer Cristina Slattery—whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes Travel Guide, AFAR, Travel+Leisure, Food & Wine, and more—will reveal how to infuse your fiction with the rich sensory details and emotional pull often found in travel and food writing. Drawing on her background in journalism and education, Cristina will guide you through crafting settings that feel so real that your readers will want to explore them themselves. By focusing on close observation, descriptive writing, and sensory engagement, you’ll learn how to bring any locale—real or imaginary—to life on the page. Whether new to writing or a seasoned storyteller, this course will deepen your understanding of what makes