For Us Travel Writing Beginners: Collecting Clips

Another online travel magazine always looking for interesting/thoughtful writers is Brave New Traveler (www.bravenewtraveler.com) As the editor, I love publishing interesting interviews, opinions, travel news analysis, and reviews of travel tools. check us out if you’re interested!

Hi Abha. You are new to Written Road? What’s your story (do you have a bio posted somewhere)? Hope you post regularly!

Travelmag’s been on my radar for a while. I’ve got something want to submit there. It’s a good combination for budding writers: strong writing, and accessible.
I’d love to get published online somewhere like www.travelintelligence.net, but that takes a hefty portfolio. Travelmag’s a good start.

Oops. The link above has a comma that shouldn’t be there.
First rule of writing: edit twice.

Ianmack: Always good to know about new travel websites that encourage budding travel writers, will check it out.

Kara: Yes, just started writing for Written Road, there should be a bio up on me soon. In the meantime, FYI, I blog for www.gridskipper.com and at www.abhamalpani.blogspot.com, incase you are interested in having a look.

Mikeachim: Travel Intelligence (TI) is a great site, but yes as you said, a toughy to get onto. However, they are approachable and respond to emails. I was told by one of the editors of TI once to start posting consumer reviews on hotels at the site, to build up some sort of portfolio, and then approach them again. Perhaps you could try out the same.

I’d personally go for the minimally paying markets first, like GoNomad and Transitions Abroad. A market that’ll publish anything “fundamentally good” is hardly better than a content site in terms of portfolio material (which is not to say all non-paying sites have low standards–but a lot of them do).

I would also recommend “Glimpse Abroad”. They are a group of former Brown students publishing both a website and paper-based publication for study abroad students. What appeals to me is that they want something something a bit more socially-conscious and academically- based.

I have also seen “Pology” and am in the process of submitting. Does anyone know of them?