Below is a link to the newsletter: https://ckarchive.com/b/n4uohvheknpq Below is an excerpt from the newsletter: The Root, the premier online destination for news, politics, and culture from an African American perspective, is looking for freelance weekend and evening writers. Travelnoire is hiring a Community Experience Manager, Travel Noire. For more info: visit BlavityInc.com/Careers. Conde Naste …
Below is a link to the Winter 2020 newsletter! https://shoutout.wix.com/so/b8M-K3wec Here is an excerpt from it: Lavinia Spaulding is happy to announce she will be editing another volume of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, published by Travelers’ Tales. THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 31, 2020, and the anthology will come out in the fall of …
Cuisine Noir the leading food, wine and travel lifestyle magazine for the African Diaspora, recetnly published a story I wrote entitled: “From California to The Gambia: Couple Opens the Country’s First Vegan Eatery.” I had the pleasure of dining at their eatery when I was in Gambia in May 2019. “Eat to live, don’t live to eat” …
Couples’ eatery featured in article written by Lee for Cuisinoir. Read More »
Elaine Lee was invited to teach the first ever travel writing workshop at WICE, an English speaking educational center in Paris. Shortly after announcing the workshop in August enrollment reached capacity and there was a lengthy waiting list. On October 19th and 20th, Elaine’s “Travel Writing 101” class was enthusiastically received by the attendees. She …
New travel writing course Fall 2019 at WICE in Paris Read More »
Elaine’s 5th trip to Africa coincides with The ‘Year Of Return’ for people in the African Diaspora. In the year 1619, the first ship carrying captured Africans reached Point Comfort, Virginia. That marked the beginning of the horrendous Middle Passage TransAtlantic Slave Trade. 2019 is the 400th anniversary of that chapter of our history has been designated …
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Globetrotting Workshop given by Elaine Lee at Berkeley Women’s Conference On March 16th, 2019, I presented a workshop entitled “Globetrotting 101: Smart ways to navigate mother earth,” at the 33rd Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference at the University of California in Berkeley . The theme of the conference this year was “FREE SPACE, OUR …
It was an honor. privilege and delight to have been invited to give a lecture on travel journalism at the annual Vona conference (Voices of our Nation Arts Foundation), held this year in Berkeley, Ca. The title of my walk was Shapeshifting: The Journey from Traveler to Travel Journalist. Below are two thank you letters …
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Travel journalist, Monica Williams, recently published an article entitled “I Thought Travel Writing Wasn’t Meant For Me”. She chronicles her journey from traveler to travel journalist. In her article she shares her appreciation for my travel writing and how it served as one of the catalysts that propelled her into a career as a writer. …
Monica Williams features the work of Elaine Lee in recent article. Read More »
On March 17th, 2018, with the able assistance of travel maven, Robin Bates, I presented a workshop entitled “Globetrotting 101: Smart ways to navigate mother earth,” at the 33rd Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference at the University of California in Berkeley. The theme of the conference this year was “FREE SPACE, OUR SPACE: Actualizing …
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It was a distinct honor to be invited by the California Black Expo Association to be one of their featured speakers at their “Women’s History Celebration Mixer” on March 22, 2018. The organizers asked me create a speech about my entrepreneurial lifestyle. My speech was entitled, “The No-Paycheck Life,” and of course it included how …
Elaine gives talk about entrepreneurship at California Black Expo Event. Read More »
Bookmarked is a series of interviews with women and nonbinary writers of color about their novels and memoirs of navigating lands, languages, and themselves—and most of all—about taking up space everywhere we go. Bani Amore interviewed Elaine for Bookmarked in October of 2017. What’s possible in literature, and therefore in our world, has been determined by …
Bani Amor interviews Elaine Lee about her pioneering travel writing legacy. Read More »
Paris France, continues to be one my favorite places on the planet. I hope you get a chance to visit there. At the age of 38, I visited Paris for the first time. A die-hard political/community activist and a committed workaholic, I was snobbish about the idea of devoting time to non-productive activity such as …
Could you give me some information about traveling in Paris, France? Read More »
