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Speaking and teaching

For eight of the most rewarding years of my working life, I lectured law to first year university students for and I have never lost the taste for standing up in front of a room full of people and teaching or speaking.  I am also one of the founder members and presenters of From Plate to Page, Europe’s first intensive weekend workshop for both writing and photography, aimed at bloggers.  Please contact me if you are interested in asking me to:

  • teach (or develop) a course/workshop related to blogging, writing or photography;
  • address a conference;
  • be a panellist; or
  • speak at an event.
Here are some conferences and workshops at which I have spoken recently:
  • Keynote speaker at the 3rd South African Food & Wine Blogger conference , speaking on “Ethics, etiquette and why we blog”. Also presented workshops on how to use your camera in manual mode, and one on digital post-processing with PhotoShop  (June 2012, Cape Town)
  • Panellist on the British Blogging Now panel, speaking at BritMums Live (June 2012, London)
  • Workshop presenter at From Plate to Page Somerset, an intensive 2.5 day residential course where I regularly teach writing (Somerset, May 2012)
  • Guest speaker at Bite n Write food blogging conference, speaking on “Ten tips to becoming a better blogger” (Birmingham, November 2011)
  • Workshop presenter at From Plate to Page Tuscany, an intensive 2.5 day residential course where I regularly teach writing (Italy, October 2011)
  • Workshop presenter at From Plate to Page Weimar, an intensive 2.5 day residential course where I regularly teach writing (Germany, May 2011)
  • Keynote speaker at the 2nd South African Food & Wine Blogger conference, speaking on “Ten tips to become a better blogger”. Also presented workshops on how to use your camera in manual mode, and a hands-on writing workshop  (March 2011, Cape Town)
  • Guest speaker at the 2nd Food Blogger Connect (London, June 2010?)
  • Guest speaker at the 1st South African Food & Wine Blogger conference , speaking on finding your voice, tips for better blogging, and copyright issues in blogging  (March 2010, Cape Town)
  • Guest speaker at the 1st Food Blogger Connect  speaking on writing/finding your voice, and copyright issues in blogging (London, November 2009)

 

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Jeanne Horak is a freelance food and travel writer; recipe developer and photographer. South African by birth and Londoner by choice, Jeanne has been writing about food and travel on Cooksister since 2004. She is a popular speaker on food photography and writing has also contributed articles, recipes and photos to a number of online and print publications. Jeanne has also worked with a number of destination marketers to promote their city or region. Please get in touch to work with her Read More…

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