This year's SATW Institute for Travel Writing and Photography [1], presented by the Society of American Travel Writers [2] in Orlando, FL, is for writers, travel writers, photographers and experienced travelers who want to learn travel writing and photography for articles and guidebooks or who already are travel writers and photographers and who want to improve their performance. This course teaches how to prepare article and photo queries and book proposals, how to negotiate contracts, how to work with editors, how to organize your time, how to self-publish your own work, and how to develop all Internet opportunities.

The program will be led by a faculty that includes leading North American travel writers, editors and photographers. New faculty members this year include award-winning broadcast journalist and website producer-publisher Bea Broda, and Florida expert, Sandra Friend, author of some 20 books, 12 of which cover Florida travel and the outdoors.

They join established faculty members:
     USA Today Deputy Managing Editor for Travel, Veronica Stoddart
     Online travel journalism pioneer, Lee Foster
     Self-publishing authority, M. Timothy O'Keefe
     Award-winning guidebook expert, Christopher P. Baker
     University Press of Florida Editor-in-Chief, John W. Byram
     and others.