Is a Career in Food, Wine, and Travel Writing Right For You?

Love travel? Love writing? Discover what it really takes to turn those passions into a professional path.

6-Module Self-Paced Online Course | Approximately 3 Hours of Content | 17 Downloadable Resources

The idea of becoming a travel writer can sound irresistible: discovering destinations, experiencing great food and wine, meeting fascinating people, and sharing those stories with readers.

But what does the career actually involve? And, more importantly, is it the right career for you?

Is a Career in Food, Wine, and Travel Writing Right for You? is a comprehensive, self-paced course designed to help you answer that question before you invest significant time, money, and energy pursuing a new professional direction.

Across 6 in-depth modules and approximately 3 hours of course content (plus additional hands-on work), you'll explore the realities and opportunities of professional food, wine, and travel writing while examining your own skills, experience, interests, goals, and expectations.

You'll also receive 17 downloadable handouts and resources designed to help you move beyond simply watching lessons and begin applying what you learn to your own potential writing career.

You'll explore what professional travel writers actually do, identify the experience and expertise you already bring to the profession, consider potential niches, begin defining your professional identity, and develop a realistic plan for moving forward.

You don't need a journalism degree.

You don't need to have traveled around the world.

And you certainly don't need to quit your job tomorrow.

You need to understand the profession, figure out where you might fit within it, and decide your next steps.

This course helps you do exactly that.

A Comprehensive 6-Module Course

This isn't a quick overview of travel writing.

You'll work through 6 comprehensive modules containing approximately 3 hours of course content, giving you time to explore both the creative and professional sides of building a career around food, wine, and travel writing.

Along the way, 17 downloadable handouts, worksheets, templates, exercises, and checklists help you apply the lessons to your own interests, experience, and goals.

The course is completely self-paced, with guided videos from me, so there's no pressure to finish by a certain date.

And your course never expires. Return to individual lessons and resources whenever you need them, and you'll have access to course updates as they're added.

Although you learn on your own schedule, you aren't left entirely on your own. You'll also have limited-time support through the Wander Writers Hub, where you can ask questions and connect with other writers.

What You'll Explore

✔ What a Career in Travel Writing Really Looks Like

Go beyond the romantic image of getting paid to travel and explore what professional food, wine, and travel writers actually do.

You'll develop a clearer picture of the work involved so you can decide whether the reality of the profession matches your expectations.

✔ The Skills and Traits Successful Writers Need

What does it take to succeed?

Explore the writing, research, organizational, communication, business, and professional skills that can contribute to a sustainable writing career.

Just as importantly, you'll begin identifying which of those skills you already have.

✔ How Your Previous Experience Can Become an Asset

Becoming a travel writer doesn't necessarily mean starting over. Your previous career may have given you expertise. Your hobbies may reveal a niche. Your travels may have taught you what other travelers need to know. And your life experience gives you a perspective no other writer has.

You'll learn to look at your existing knowledge and experience differently and consider how they might help shape your writing future.

✔ How to Identify Your Niche

Travel writing is an enormous field.

Food. Wine. Luxury. Adventure. Cruises. Road trips. Hotels. Family travel. Accessible travel. Outdoor recreation. Cultural travel. Specific destinations and regions—the possibilities are extensive.

You'll explore where your interests, expertise, experience, and opportunities intersect so you can begin identifying the subjects that make the most sense for you.

✔ How to Begin Building Your Professional Identity

What do you want editors, readers, destinations, and industry professionals to know about you?

You'll begin thinking strategically about your niche, expertise, perspective, and the professional identity you want to develop as a writer.

✔ How to Turn What You've Learned Into an Action Plan

Exploring a new career is useful only if you know what to do next.

You'll use what you've learned throughout the course to begin developing a practical plan based on your circumstances, interests, strengths, and goals.

Rather than following someone else's version of a successful travel-writing career, you'll start building your own.

Perfect For You If…

• You love writing and travel  and wonder whether you could combine them professionally
• You're interested in food, wine, or travel writing but aren't sure where to begin
• You're considering travel writing as a second career
• You're approaching retirement and looking for an engaging professional next chapter
• You already write but want to explore opportunities in the travel market
• You've started a travel blog and want to better understand the professional side of the industry
• You aren't sure what your travel-writing niche should be
• You have professional expertise or life experience you'd like to turn into story opportunities
• You want a realistic understanding of the profession before investing significant time and money
• You keep asking yourself, “Could I really do this?”

How the Course Works

1. Learn at Your Own Pace

Work through the six modules whenever and wherever it works for you. There's no class schedule and no deadline for completing the program.

2. Put the Lessons Into Practice

Use the 17 downloadable resources to explore the concepts in greater depth and apply them to your own potential career.

The goal isn't simply to watch approximately 3 hours of instruction. It's to use what you're learning to make informed decisions about your future.

3. Get Support Along the Way

Have a question?

Your course includes access to support through the Wander Writers Hub, giving you somewhere to turn when you need clarification or another perspective. (We have a private Facebook group and meet monthly via Zoom.)

4. Return Whenever You Need a Refresher

Your course access never expires. Revisit individual lessons and resources as your writing career develops, and access course updates as they're added.

What's Included

• 6 comprehensive course modules
• Approximately 3 hours of course content
• 17 downloadable handouts and resources
• Self-paced, on-demand video instruction
• Worksheets and practical exercises
• Templates and checklists
• Mobile-friendly course access
• Professional support through the Wander Writers Hub
• Course access that never expires
• Access to future course updates
• 90 days of Wander Writers Hub access

BONUS: 90 Days of Premium Wander Writers Hub Access

Learning about the profession is valuable. Connecting with other people who understand the work can make that learning even more useful.

Your enrollment includes 90 days of Premium access to the Wander Writers Hub, where you'll have opportunities to participate in resources and activities such as:

• Feedback opportunities
• Live Q&As
• Writer discussions
• Community support
• Connection with other food, wine, and travel writers

It's a chance to put what you're learning into practice while joining a community focused on the same profession you're exploring.

Why This Course Is Different

There's no shortage of advice online promising to tell you how to “become a travel writer.” This course starts with a different question:

Should you become one?

Travel writing can be rewarding, fascinating, challenging, competitive, and constantly changing. It's also a profession—not simply a way to get free trips. That's why this course doesn't begin by promising you a glamorous lifestyle.

It begins by helping you understand the work.

You'll examine the profession alongside your own experience, abilities, interests, expectations, and goals so you can make a more informed decision about whether this is a path you want to pursue.

If the answer is yes, you'll finish with a much clearer understanding of where you fit and what you need to do next.

You May Already Have More to Work With Than You Think

One of the biggest misconceptions about starting a writing career is that you have to begin from zero. You don't.

Your previous career may have given you subject-matter expertise.

Your hobbies may point toward a specialized niche. Your travels have given you experiences and observations. Your professional relationships may have taught you how to interview, research, communicate, meet deadlines, or run a business. And decades of living give you something no course can teach: perspective.

The goal is to identify what you already bring to the profession and determine what you need to learn next.

EXPERIENCE → INTERESTS → NICHE → SKILLS → PLAN → ACTION

This Is a Course to Work Through—Not Just Watch

With approximately 3 hours of course content and 17 supporting resources, this program is designed for active participation.

Watch a lesson. Work through an exercise. Consider how it applies to you. Make some decisions. Then continue.

You aren't trying to memorize a formula for becoming a travel writer.

You're using the course to begin building your version of a travel-writing career.

Take your time. Return to sections as needed. Revisit your exercises as your goals evolve.

Your access doesn't expire, so the course can remain a resource as you move forward.

Find Out Before You Take the Leap

You don't need to quit your job. You don't need to launch a website tomorrow. You don't need expensive equipment. And you don't need to book a trip around the world to determine whether you could become a professional travel writer.

Start by understanding the profession. Understand what you already bring to it. Identify what you still need to learn. Then decide whether this is the professional path you want to pursue.

Is a Career in Food, Wine, and Travel Writing Right for You? gives you approximately 3 hours of instruction, 17 supporting resources, ongoing course access, and a professional community to help you answer that question.

Regular Price: $147 | Sale Price: $97

Ready to find out whether travel writing is right for you? Enroll today and start exploring the possibilities.