Gridskipper re-launched yesterday and the result is a completely new look, expanded features, wider focus, more contributors and detailed maps with hotspots marked out per city. New focus cities include: Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Sydney. Although now it looks more obviously part of ‘Gawker’, the changes and extras are all […]
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Call For Unusual Travel Stories
Brothels on a farm, airports designed like footballs, a visit to a kimchi museum, a midnight party with extras on a film set in Brazil — that’s the kind of stuff that will be online soon on Meander Magazine. The new e-zine is set to launch in July, and is looking for stories on all […]
» Read more...Job Lead: BUG Europe Travel Guide
The Backpackers Ultimate Guide (BUG) is looking to fill 12 one-month long travel research positions for a Europe travel guide. The job would involve: -reviewing hostels (100-150 words per hostel) -couple of introductory paragraphs for each destination (100-500 words each) -writing about eating & drinking sections for the larger destinations (100-500 words each) The work […]
» Read more...US Launch Tour: Lonely Planet Books
2)Unlikely Destinations:The Lonely Planet Story, jointly written by both Tony and Maureen Wheeler: Clear from it’s title, this book talks about the 36-year evolution of Lonely Planet from a barely stapled guide written by two travelers on the road, to the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher. When: The couple will be hopping around the United […]
» Read more...The Travel Channel Acquires World Hum
The word has just gotten out, and it’s already been covered considerably. The Travel Channel has acquired World Hum. Taken over!? Gobbled-up by the fierce and firey bigshots at Discovery? Log on to World Hum now and you can already see embedded into the page The Travel Channel orange ‘T’ on the top right corner. […]
» Read more...Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference
The 16th Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference will take place this year from August 16-19 in California, (just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco). Word is that alongside writing guru’s such as Don George, Tim Cahill, Isabel Allende and Rolf Potts (to name a few), our very own Jen Leo will […]
» Read more...National Writers Workshop Schedule 2007
Moving to Madrid and trying to be an (English language) writer, do not go very well together. There only 2 decent local English language monthlies and any event/seminar/book release of any literary value is in Spanish. So while I am language-locked in the Mediterranean, incase any of you are in California, Kansas, Texas, Florida or […]
» Read more...PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature
There’s a few great speaking events going on with a few top travel writers in New York next week during the New York Festival of International Literature. If you are in the city I highly recomend checking it out. Where: New York City When: April 24-29, 2007 THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 5-6 p.m. Pico Iyer in […]
» Read more...Budget Travel magazine looking for Senior Editor, announces writing contest
Here are a couple of announcements from Budget Travel Magazine: About the Senior Editor Position position: The Senior Editor will conceive, assign, edit and close features and the Where section, contribute to BudgetTravelOnline including the Budget Travel blog, and make appearances on behalf of Budget Travel in the media and at industry functions. There’s also […]
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