Author talk in local museum focuses on writer's journey

NEWS RELEASE
SAULT STE. MARIE MUSEUM
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Windows on Distant Lands travel writer Tony Robinson-Smith will share short readings from his experiences and travels to Germany, Nova Scotia, Papua New Guinea, and the Kingdom of Bhutan. The author's talk will also include a slide show of his journeys off the beaten track. In between readings, audience members are welcome to ask questions. There will be a 10-minute intermission for refreshments and light snacks. Admission to this event is by donation. The event runs from 7 to 9 p.m.

If you missed your chance to attend Tony Robinson-Smith’s last author talk at Algoma University on March 10, head over to the Sault Ste. Marie Museum, Durham Gallery, first floor on May 3 for another chance to hear about his latest travels!

Copies of The Dragon Run by the author will also be available for book signing and purchase.

Tony Robinson-Smith is an assistant professor in the Dept of English and History at Algoma U. He teaches academic writing skills and creative writing. His principal genre of literary interest is travel writing. He has published two travel memoirs: Back in 6 Years, the story of his journey around the planet in the 1990s without using aircraft, and The Dragon Run, about the two years he and his wife Nadya spent teaching English in - and running across - the Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas.

Robinson-Smith is currently working on a third memoir about the voyage he and Nadya took by dugout canoe down the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea in 2018. This memoir will be published by the University of Alberta Press next summer. Tony has written traveler's tales for The Globe & Mail and writes regularly for Perceptive Travel, an American online travel magazine. At Algoma U, he runs a Creative Writing Circle every other Thursday, in which writers workshop each other's creative work. He will be teaching a course in travel writing next winter.

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