For those who haven’t seen this already, there is a great interview with Tim Leffel done by our friends at Brave New Traveler. With everything under the sun moving online at an incredibly fast pace, the future of travel-writing on the Internet is a hot topic. I personally think that just for the pace at […]
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Vagabondish call for writers
Vagabondish has put out a call for writers and contributors to its features section. Sadly, it’s no pay, but they say they will be in the near future. Contact: Mike via the Vagabondish website: vagabondish.com/contact/ and be sure to include your name, contact info, a bit about you and why you’d be a good fit, […]
» Read more...Want To Be The Next Great Travel-Writer?
Well, here’s an opportunity. Travcoa (a luxury and exotic travel company) and National Geographic Traveler have launched a competition in search of “The Next Great Travel Writer”. So if you are a student in North America, send in a 300-word-essay of a travel story that moved, excited or changed you and you could be on […]
» Read more...Job Lead: Coolhunter Contributors
One of the coolest on line cultural and trendy websites is Coolhunter. As the name suggests, it writes about anything cool for a young and happening audience. Hits speak for quality: with about 1.4 million hits a month — 420,000 of which are unique visitors — it is definitely a good site to contribute to. […]
» Read more...Swamped But Loving It
Sorry from my end also for being a bit lax on posting here. I’ve been over my head blogging (not writing :)) Other than Written Road, I now write for Gadling, Vagablogging, Gridskipper, and Map Magazine — am committed to doing a minimum of 26 posts a week (!!!!!!), that doesn’t include my own personal […]
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Sorry I’ve been slacking on my posts lately, I’m up to my neck in guidebook work, not to mention took a few days off to run to Vegas, and have had to put a few other projects to the side for the time being. I have about 6 weeks of traveling divided among Peru, Honduras, […]
» Read more...Quito Guidebook Writing Bootcamp – Change In Date
We posted about Viva’s travel-guidebook-writing bootcamp last week; we’ve been notified of a date change. Instead of November 19-23, the Quito Bootcamp will be from November 26-30, 2007. For more info, check out original post.
» Read more...Job Lead: Cruise Critic
Cruise Critic has announced they are looking for an Assistant Editor to work in their Pennington, New Jersey (near Princeton) office. The editor will write, edit, update and publish cruise-related stories, fact check, write promotional teasers, copy edit, etc. Qualifications: Candidates should have a college degree, experience in Photoshop and some web publishing software, 1-3 […]
» Read more...Job Lead: Adventure Journey
Online adventure travel magazineAdventure Journey, is looking for several freelancers willing to work on an on-and-off basis over an extended period of time. You just have to be a motivated writer passionate about the world, it’s people and places. You have to be able to produce high-quality articles of 2,000+ word features or 300-600 word […]
» Read more...Guest Article: Tips For Your First Press Trip
Here at Written Road, we have the privilege of being in contact with some great travel-writers who want to share their expertise. Sometimes, we get even luckier and they offer to write something for us! This article is a guest piece written by Andrea Calabretta — a freelance writer and editor living in Boston, MA […]
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