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WriteAway weekends – your first step on the path to becoming a travel writer.

Marrakech, Jerusalem, Istanbul and many more destinations... from only £269

Award winning travel writer Dea Birkett has founded WriteAway travel, wanting to share the secrets of a travel writer's success. Dea works alongside leading travel writers to ensure every participant fulfills their travel writing dreams.

We've teamed up with Rough Guides to give a FREE ROUGH GUIDE TO EVERY WRITEAWAY PARTICIPANT

"Marrakech was a turning point for me and I've written every day since, and made some decisions about how I organise my writing, as well as made some resolutions about getting published. Thanks to Dea and Rory for all the encouragement."

Kate, Marrakech WriteAway weekender

Marrakesh WriteAway weekend

To see what others have achieved from a travel writing workshop, go to www.travelworkshops.co.uk

So you want to be a travel writer?

Which means you want to write and travel. But how can you have fun while achieving your personal goals? On a WriteAway weekend, we enjoy ourselves as well as learn. Whether wandering through the souks of Morocco or the floating nightclubs of Serbia, or running the bullocks in Spain, we don't only find out about the place we're in and how to write about it. We also discover what it's like to be a travel writer.

Marrakech market

The award winning travel writers behind Travel Writing Workshops want to share the secret of their travel writing skills. But instead of sitting you at a desk in a classroom, they want to take you out on the road with them. In a small group, you'll experience what it's like to be a travel writer, from collecting the material to writing a piece to which an editor or publisher can only say 'Yes!'.

To make this new journey possible, Travel Writing Workshops has partnered with expert travel company Tailor-Made Groups Company to provide WriteAway – travel writing weekends in places worth writing about. Tailor-Made Groups Company is a great travelling companion. Director Derek Moore co-founded travel company Explore in 1981 and has over 35 years experience of arranging travel to almost every corner of the globe.

Tailor-Made Groups Company is committed to encouraging independent, thoughtful travel to unexpected places. Their attention to detail, research and planning are essential for tours like these, along with experience of how to ensure everything operates seamlessly. Tailor-Made Groups Company have an ATOL licence, so your investment is fully protected.

Put these two areas of expertise and knowledge together and you have WriteAway – mapped out for the new journey in your life.

With our joint expertise in travel writing and tour operating, we have chosen some of the most intriguing destinations, to stimulate your writing skills. Together, we'll explore Belgrade's Kalemegdan Citadel and Tito's grave; Kant's tomb; Marrakech's snake charmers and lovers' ramparts.

The fabulous thing about a break dedicated to travel writing is that it doesn't cut you off from the people and places around you. It propels you out to the world beyond your hotel room, giving you opportunity and reason to meet, experience, see and learn from your new surroundings.

While a WriteAway weekend is about your writing, you also have plenty of opportunities to explore or just chill out in a fascinating destination. When you're a travel writer, even tapping your feet to a Roma band in a bar in Belgrade or soaking in a hammam in Marrakech counts as work!