I smiled when I read about this competition: the prize is a 7-night trip for two to Kyrgyzstan 🙂 They have teamed up with Bradt Travel Guides, known for their travel guides to offbeat places — so I guess it makes sense. All writers can apply — published or unpublished. In the unpublished writers category […]
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Get Your Writing Critiqued For Free
Over at Nerd’s Eye View you have an opportunity to write 200 words and get them critiqued by Angela Nickerson, traveler, photographer, and author of ”A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome“, as part of her virtual book tour. The exercise is straight forward: write a 200 word (maximum) piece basis the prompt below and post a […]
» Read more...Travel-Blogging Lead: Writing For Planet Eye
As of today I’ve started blogging for new travel community and website, Planet Eye. I have been appointed their Madrid local expert and have to review places, gives lists of things to do and places to see, give insight on cultural customs etc. I decided to write for them because I liked the site, they […]
» Read more...Travel Channel Acquires Vagabondish
Breaking news from the travel-publishing industry: Discovery’s Travel Channel has bought over Vagabondish. First it was World Hum, now this — both are great examples of small scale, personal projects making it big because of sheer dedication and quality content. Mike Richard, who created the blog-turned-magazine about 18-months ago, will remain the editor-in-chief and the […]
» Read more...Call For Story Submissions: Traveling Mama
I hadn’t seen the Traveling Mamas website before and I think it’s pretty cool. Run by 4 mothers who are professional travel-writers, the site has a neat travel blog with focused advice on family travel; worth a visit if you haven’t already. Anyway, they are looking for 300-1000 word travel-themed stories for an anthology series. […]
» Read more...Interview With Robert Reid: The Rise Of Online Travel Guides
I subscribe to a million (not exaggerating) RSS feeds, from EVERYWHERE. I enjoy most I subscribe to, and I subscribe to new ones almost every day (yes, I’m obsessed) which is precisely why I often miss good stuff — that goes completely against the whole point of subscribing to feeds from cool sites. This interview […]
» Read more...New Writing Website: The Midlist Writer
Good friend, fellow traveler and writer Sean McLachlan (who has shared his advice for us here before), has entered the blogging world to share his writing experiences. Sean has been to 20 countries on every continent (except Australia and Antartica), is author of Moon Guidebook to London, the Insider’s Guide to Phoenix, and Globe Pequot’s […]
» Read more...Frommer’s Travel Writing 101
For those of you who missed this, at end of last year, Frommer’s came out with a Travel Writing 101 series of articles, written by Robert Haru Fisher: a contributing editor and columnist for Frommers.com, a former editor-in-chief of the Fodor Travel Guides, a former president of the Society of American Travel Writers and director […]
» Read more...Writing Online: What You Write Vs. How You Write
I don’t know about you guys, but with the explosive growth of the online publishing industry and the constant debate over the authority definitions when it comes to journalists, bloggers or writers, I am often left confused and lost as to 1) what I should be writing 2) how should I be writing about it […]
» Read more...NYC & Italy Travel Writing Classes w/Michael Luongo
Travel Writer and Editor Michael Luongo, who we interviewed at Written Road last April, will be holding several travel writing workshops in the coming months: New York University’s Global Traveler Writing Class When: Saturdays March 8 and March 15, 10am to 4pm Where: New York University How Much: $385 Luongo’s Global Traveler writing class is […]
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