Dea Birkett: Writer biog
We are very pleased that Dea Birkett has very kindly agreed to contribute to TaketheFamily on a regular basis, sharing her extensive travelling with kids wisdom.
In her latest exclusive series '
Eating with Kids' Dea turns her family’s critical eye towards food, to help make eating out as a family in unfamiliar territory an ecstasy not an agony.
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Dea Birkett is a distinguished travel writer and broadcaster. Her first travel book, Jella: A Woman At Sea, won the Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for Travel Writer of the Year, and she has written many more best sellers since then, such as Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers, and Spinsters Abroad.
Dea had a weekly column in the Guardian for five years, Travelling with Kids, and is Director of 'Kids in Museums', founded when her two-year old son was thrown out of the Aztec exhibition at the Royal Academy for shouting ‘Monster!’ at a statue of Eagleman. Kids in Museums works with the Guardian on the Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award, the biggest museum award in Britain and judged by families. Dea is also Creative Director of Many Rivers Films, making pioneering documentaries for Channel 4, and founded and runs *Travel Writing Workshops, day-long workshops for aspiring travel writers.
Dea lives with her boyfriend and their three children – a teenager and seven-year-old twins. They still keep travelling
Visit Dea's website.
*TRAVEL WRITING WORKSHOP AT ITV'S LONDON STUDIOS on Sept 20th on the South Bank, where programmes including This Morning, Parkinson, South Bank Show, Ant and Dec, and Friday Night Project are made. The Workshop takes place on the 14th floor, with astounding views across London and along the river. Bring your camera as well as your pen! The cost is £107.50 for the full day.Just go to the website, www.travelworkshops.co.uk for further details.
*BLOOMSBURY TRAVEL WRITING WORKSHOP, on November 9th in Central London at the Art Workers Guild, in the historic heart of Bloomsbury where inspiration from great writers surrounds us. The Workshop is held in The Gradidge Room, a Georgian reception room overlooking Queen Square. The cost is £105 for the full day.Just go to the website, www.travelworkshops.co.uk for further details.
* - Make a full weekend of concentrating on your travel writing. Join the Bloomsbury Travel Writing Masterclass on Sunday 9 November, only open to graduates of the Workshop. BOOK THE WORKSHOP AND MASTERCLASS TOGETHER AND GET £20 DISCOUNT.
Feature articles by Dea
- Self catering in Paris (1 August 2008)
- Eurostar (1 July 2008)
- Cruise Ship (1 June 2008)
- New York (26 May 2008)
- Museums (25 April 2008)
- Edinburgh (1 April 2008)
- Washington DC (14 March 2008)
- Krakow (7 December 2007)
- Paris (5 November 2007)
- Brighton (1 October 2007)
- Kent (31 August 2007)
- London (31 July 2007)
- Malaysia (30 June 2007)
- Seychelles (31 May 2007)
- St Moritz (30 April 2007)
- Savannah (1 April 2007)
