Travel Writing Panel: An open heart, an open mind, and an open-ended ticket

Wandering the world and getting paid to do it sounds like a ripper career choice. But what does it actually take to make it as a travel writer? The clues are in the title of this panel-style event for Words in Winter with three outstanding Australian travel writers — each with their own unique trajectory to share.

Join us at Radius Art for an inspiring afternoon, where you’ll pick up personal observations, methods, tips, tricks, and words of wisdom for would-be travel scribes. Hosted by Daylesford-based travel editor, writer, and TV presenter Adam Ford, this event will be full of heart and could kick-start your own creative journey.

This is a free event as part of the Words in Winter festival in Daylesford, but you must book to guarantee a seat. A small number of seats will be held in reserve for walk-ups on the day. The event will consist of a Q&A with panellists, follows by questions from the audience. We will also be awarding a number of door prizes at the end of the event.

Adam Ford is editor of Top Oz Tours & Travel Ideas, and a travel TV presenter, writer, blogger, and photographer. He has travelled extensively through Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, and the Middle East.

Adam worked as a travel consultant for a number of years with Flight Centre before taking up the opportunity to travel the world himself as host of the TV series on Network Ten. He loves to experience everything a new destination has to offer and is equally at home in a five-star Palazzo in Pisa or a home-stay in Hanoi.

In addition to editing the Top Oz Tours website, Adam has written for Escape (News Limited), Traveltalk, Flight Centre, Travel Associates, Collette, NeedaBreak.com, CIM Magazine, and Tourism and Events Queensland.

Julietta Henderson is a writer, editor, and novelist with over 25 years’ experience spanning a diverse range of creative writing. With the ability to write across a range of specialty niche fields — including travel, real estate, editorial, profile pieces, photography, home décor, and advertising copy – her portfolio of work encompasses clients in the US, UK, France, Italy, and Australia.

In 2020, Julietta’s debut novel The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman was published by Penguin Books in the UK, Australia, USA, and translated into multiple foreign languages. Her second novel Sincerely, Me followed in 2022, and she is currently working on a third.

A full-time writer, Julietta divides her life between Melbourne, the UK, and wherever she can find winter.

Lindy Alexander is an award-winning freelance travel writer who regularly contributes to some of Australia’s best loved publications, such as The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, The Herald-Sun, The Australian, and Delicious magazine.

After working as a social worker for ten years, Lindy made the switch to freelance journalism before specialising in travel writing. Since then, she has travelled all over the world, visiting countries including Sweden, Finland, Canada, Thailand, Fiji, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, India, The United States, and many more.

During her travels, Lindy has written articles about meditating with monks in Chiang Mai, sleeping in a castle in Jaipur, exploring the floating villages of Bangkok by bike, and going heli-hiking in the Canadian Rockies.

Lindy is also the founder of The Freelancer's Year — a popular blog and online writing course hub for aspiring and established freelance writers.

When not travelling the world, Lindy can be found baking sweet treats and walking her unruly dog (and children) in the bushland around her home town of Castlemaine.

Nadia Bailey is a writer, editor and critic based in Melbourne. She is a regular contributor to the arts pages of The Age, and has written travel and lifestyle stories for publications such as Australian Gourmet Traveller, Vogue Living, Virgin Voyeur, and others.

Nadia was the 2020 recipient of the National Library of Australia’s Creative Arts Fellowship for Australian Writing, and was Kraków City of Literature’s Creative Fellow in 2019. She is currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Canberra and is working on her first novel.

Host or Publisher Adam Ford