Food and Travel Writing: A Journalist's Story

When:  Wednesday, April 17, 7:30 to 8:30 pm PDT

Where: Online through Zoom

Cost:    Editors Canada members, free; non-members, $10; student non-members, $5

Don Genova’s editing experience has ranged from being severely edited (his first-ever story for the Toronto Star) to editing student writing in his Food and Travel Writing course at UBC. Along the way, he’s trained new journalists in supervisory roles and judged many writing competitions for various food and travel writing organizations.

In this talk, Don will share how he got his dream job of telling stories about food and travel. His largest project to date is updating and adding to his first published book, which combines storytelling with a guide to Vancouver Island food artisans. Don will talk about the challenge of keeping everything organized and how he learned that self-editing has become a reality in today’s world of DIY everything. And he’ll show some pretty photos of what he’s working on!

Don Genova, originally from Ontario, has been covering the food and travel scene in Canada and internationally since 1997. An award-winning journalist with a master’s degree in Food Culture from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy, Don hosted Pacific Palate and Food for Thought on CBC Radio and contributed pieces for the Globe and Mail, National Post, enRoute Magazine, and YAM among others. He also teaches the popular online Food and Travel Writing course with UBC Extended Learning. He’s now preparing a second and expanded edition of his 2014 book Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.