For Immediate Release
February 10, 2009

Earn money from your exotic travels in UCR Extension's travel writing class

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Transform your travel adventures into stories that can turn you into a travel writer and start you in a lucrative freelance writing career in UCR Extension's class, From Traveler to Travel Writer. Learn how to translate the sights, sounds, tastes, escapades, hotspots or treasures into compelling stories in your personal voice. Start your travel-writing career now. The class meets 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday beginning Feb. 28 and ending March 7, 2009 at UCR Extension, 1200 University Ave.

Instructor and Freelance Writer and Editor Stacy Davies will teach you travel writing tips guaranteed to add spice to your work. You'll be learning from a woman who wrote this zesty opening sentence in one of her own travel writing pieces: "I arrived in Mexico still buzzing on my 10 a.m. screwdriver (it was noon Mexico time, after all), when I was greeted at the airport by a nubile young virgin who led me to a private Oldsmobile." Dangerous? Perhaps. But writers seeking to be better must learn to step out on the ledge and take another step. Davies will teach you how to do that.

But before you come to your first day of class, your instructor wants something from you. Please bring your own writing piece (between 600 to 1,000 words) to work on during the two Saturday meetings.

The class fee is $130 per person.

For more information, call (951) 827-5801 or e-mail arts@ucx.ucr.edu. To register for classes, visit www.extension.ucr.edu or call (951) 827-4105. To receive a free UCR Extension catalog, which includes a complete listing of all our current courses and certificate programs, call (951) 827-3806.

UCR Extension is the continuing education division of the University of California, Riverside. Extension offers more than 1,800 courses and certificate programs in a variety of academic programs, including agriculture and landscape, arts and humanities, business and management, education, teacher's credentialing, English, environmental management, geospatial analysis and technology, health services and behavioral sciences, information technology, languages, law and public policy, Native American studies, natural sciences, forensic investigations and public safety, and yoga.