Dumont based travel website Travels In Paradise is looking for focused travel features exploring authentic and interesting locations (no travelogues). They are open to wide variety of topics and styles of writing, but they must involve actual destination travel. Later there may be ppportunities for regular staff writing. Current needs: Well-written feature articles about worldwide […]
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Job Lead: Travel Journalist For Stonesong Press
Stonesong Press is looking for a travel journalist to be the lead author on a series of books that will detail the best movies and books that capture the feel of a foreign country/city. The series is as much for armchair travelers as it is for globetrotters. Each title will cover a specific country or […]
» Read more...Writing for Suite101.com and About.com: Is It Worth It?
Again and again I get questions about whether it is worth it to write for websites such as Suite101.com or About.com, so I thought I would breakdown my experience with Suite101 and what I have heard about About.com. Suite101 I began writing for Suite101 about two years ago when very few people had heard about […]
» Read more...Rejection
Rejection: we all have to deal with it as writers. Some of us more than others. I came across this article in a Seattle weekly about one writers struggle. Enjoy!
» Read more...Fall 2008: Be A National Geographic Correspondent
“Glimpse” — National Geographic‘s new print and online platform (urr…magazine?) is looking for people aged between 18-30 who plan to spend at least 10-weeks studying abroad from August 15-December 30, to report on their experiences. Each correspondent will receive a $600 stipend and be assigned a professional editor to help them produce high quality, multimedia […]
» Read more...Travel Writing Competition: Win A Trip To Costa Rica!
Costa Rica Pages has just launched a travel-writing competition where you can get a trip valued at $3000 to Costa Rica. Simple drill: Write a 300-word-minimum description of your most memorable vacation or travel moment and how it changed or affected you. Deadline: Friday, August 1. Unfortunately the prize doesn’t include air tickets to Costa […]
» Read more...Viva Travel Guide’s Travel-Writing Boot Camp Schedule
Viva Travel Guides (a new guidebook company focused primarily on Latin America that offers all of their content for free online) will be holding a few guidebook/travel writing crash courses over the next couple of months. Viva’s Boot Camps are week-long courses that teach students how to hit the ground running with assignments. The course […]
» Read more...How Important Is Blogging For Your Career As A Travel-Writer?
To blog or not to blog, that is the question (sorry for the awful rendition of a cliche). The upsurge and success of blogs in the online travel-publishing industry, has posed a hot question in the minds of accomplished and aspiring writers alike: what importance do we need to give to blogging (be it general […]
» Read more...Live Blogging Session: What Do Readers Want From A Travel Blog?
An eternal question for those getting into travel-blogging. Folks over at Europe A La Carte blog will have a live-blogging session on this topic. A group of travel-bloggers (list not yet disclosed) will talk about their blogs and there will be an open forum for you to interact with them — questions, comments, what you […]
» Read more...Questions with the NYT Travel Editor
Stuart Emmrich, travel editor of the New York Times, is answering questions from readers this week in the Talk to the Newsroom page. If you send them right now you still might be able to get one in. He’s givena few interesting answers so far that I thought I’d point out. Decent advice to say […]
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