Writing Essays About Travel & Food 4-Week Online Workshop with Diana Spechler, Starting Monday, October 6th, 2025

Begins Monday, October 6th, 2025 Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Taught by Diana Spechler, author of the novels Who by Fire and Skinny and of the New York Times Opinion series Going Off. Her work has appeared in GQ, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Harper's, Esquire, Playboy, National Geographic Traveler, BBC Travel, Washington Post, Ploughshares, and many other publications. She is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including a Hawthornden Castle Residency, a Yaddo Residency, the Steinbeck Fellowship, and the Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize from A Room of Her Own Foundation. She is also a seven-time Moth Story Slam winner who has been featured on NPR. She writes personal essays about travel on her Substack, Dispatches From The Road. If you travel, you have to eat. (Even if you don’t travel, you have to eat.) Many people travel to eat. And there's a reason that traveling and eating go hand in