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Social Media Storytelling - e-book version now available Now free to download as e-book About the Storytelling Teaching Pack In this Storytelling Teaching Pack, we show you how to build your own campaign on social media for tourism destinations. The study pack is for lecturers in tourism management and for lecturers in English who want to add place-making to their teaching. The students will learn to research and write narrative non-fiction. The pack can be useful for learners on their own but is written as if a class of students were pursuing the same module.  We created the pack to respond to the requests to provide a teacher’s route through the material of our textbook, published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding . The pack also helps lecturers focus on adding the following topics to their teaching: social media, content authoring and marketing, place-making and sustainable tourism design.    Free Download in Preferred For...

Destination Plymouth The whole story of the Millbay Residency and the UNESCO Cities of Literature writing commission celebrating Plymouth’s climate action is now available. The interview on YouTube explores how a place-making story, 'Millbay and Mill Bay' evolved from The Millbay Writer's Residency in Plymouth, Devon UK.  More background to the creation of the narrative is here on the magazine blog, Travel Writers Online. Simply click on the Millbay & Mill Bay wave icons to read more below 

The Port Ouistreham is a port, and home of the Riva Bella seaside area on the Normandy coast of Calvados in France. It has a population of a little over 9,300. It is bordered by the Canal de Caen à la Mer, which connects Caen city with the English Channel. In 2024, I focused on researching Ouistreham for literary and creative cultural connections after completing the Millbay Residency the year before. I am hoping the town will begin to reveal catalysts for a new piece of literary travel writing or a place-making meta-fiction along the lines of ‘Millbay & Mill Bay’. Residencies for Writers and Artists My first discovery was that the town, La Ville de Ouistreham Riva-Bella, had renovated a building and created La Maison des Artistes, specifically to host residencies for artists and writers. On contacting the director, I was very kindly invited to go along for a visit in November.   Here was a starting point around which to build a visit and fieldwork. Research Rewarded Th...

Caen and Ouistreham Group in WhatsApp Community Have you tried setting-up a WhatsApp Community, yet? If you have been using WhatsApp with work colleagues or with friends for a while, then it is easy to do. A WhatsApp Community is a dialogue space to share an interest. The Community can grow and so you can divide it into Groups. In October 2024 we started a WhatsApp Community called French Travel and Books , and designed a logo of open books in the colours of the French flag: WhatsApp Group Soon, we realised it was a broad topic and so began to create Groups within the Community to share news and ideas for regions and cities. The aim began to form that it would be a space for collecting favourite holiday reading for visitors to these places. I am interested in Ouistreham and Caen because I completed fieldwork in November 2024, and the WhatsApp Group ran live alongside the travel and my stay in the port town.  Fieldwork in Ouistreham During my fieldwork in the town I was drawn to...

Millbay, Saturday 3 August 2024 Samedi. A decade has passed since Sam Ferguson published his question* on the innovative story by André Gide, called, Paludes . In English that book title could be rendered as Swamps, or, Sourpool, perhaps. Plymouth's Sourpool is recorded in 1439 when the town's boundary was fixed during its incorporation as a Devon borough. The record reads ‘between the hill called Windy Ridge – by the bank of the Sourpool – against the north all the way to the great dyke otherwise called the great ditch’.  Damp, mossy, ferny, even swampy boundaries blurred the edges of the space we call Millbay today. Paludes occupies a critical point of experimentation in the trajectory of published diary-writing […] exploring the possible relationship of the diary with the literary œuvre, and its capacity for addressing philosophical and aesthetic questions. The pertinence of this experimentation to the modern field of life-writing makes this a suitable moment for anothe...