Craft & Publishing Voyage on the Queen Mary 2

About this Cruise

Refine your writing craft and chart your publishing course with top writing teachers, industry experts, and Cunard's White Star service.

Westbound: Aug 27-Sept 3 with Publishing Expert Jane Friedman, Editors Allison K Williams and Dinty W. Moore, and Literary Agent Amy Collins

Our teachers are here to help you create, revise, and share your words with the world.

Publishing expert Jane Friedman will focus on Getting Known Before & After the Book Deal.
Literary agent Amy Collins shares her behind-the-scenes insights, Demystifying Publishing.
Noted memoirist and teacher Dinty W. Moore leads powerful sessions on Deepening Meaning with Writing Craft.
Powerhouse editor Allison K Williams focuses on structure, story and scene, getting Your Words In the World.

Our bespoke itinerary maximizes your learning, creating and communing, allowing you every opportunity to get the best out of your guides and the services & hospitality onboard.

Craft & Publishing Panels. Each morning, our teachers present deep dives on writing craft and publication, such as: Market Viability: What Publishers Want, Negotiation Smarts, Fabulous First Pages, or Writing Online.

Daily Classes with individual teachers happen after the morning panel and in the afternoon. Choose the topics you need to further your writing and your publishing career. Class topics by teacher are listed under Your Guides.

Special Events include Reading Nights for participants and teachers (voluntary and time-limited) and our NEW Write Fast Challenge: get a genre, a prompt and a time limit, to create a very short story and a huge sense of accomplishment!

(A little too much action? Join Allison K Williams and Amy Collins for a Relaxed Writing Retreat Sept 3-10, Eastbound on QM2, for one-to-one coaching, small-group sessions, and focus on your writing time. More info about the Relaxed Retreat is linked from the webpage for the Craft & Publishing Voyage)