How Important Is Blogging For Your Career As A Travel-Writer?

By Abha | April 17th, 2008 |

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... [Read this entry]

Independent UK Travel-Writing Competition

By Abha | April 10th, 2008 |

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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... [Read this entry]

Get Your Writing Critiqued For Free

By Abha | April 8th, 2008 |

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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“... [Read this entry]

Travel Channel Acquires Vagabondish

By Abha | March 31st, 2008 |

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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... [Read this entry]

Call For Story Submissions: Traveling Mama

By Abha | March 29th, 2008 |

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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... [Read this entry]

Interview With Robert Reid: The Rise Of Online Travel Guides

By Abha | March 25th, 2008 |

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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... [Read this entry]

Travel Writing and Photography Workshop in Rome

By Abha | January 19th, 2008 |

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It’s not often that good-quality travel-writing workshops come to Europe. Other than Rolf Pott’s July Paris workshop, I’m not aware of any other regular one. It’s annoying all the good... [Read this entry]

Traveling Stories Magazine Writing Contest

By Abha | January 19th, 2008 |

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Here’s another travel-writing contest, this time by Traveling-Stories website, for those always up for a challenge:
Submissions:
-300-1000 words
-Should be concise and creative without being destination based.
-Must include... [Read this entry]

End Of Year Travel-Writing Contest

By Abha | December 28th, 2007 |

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Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and got some time to unwind. I certainly did and am having trouble getting back into the swing of things.
On that note... [Read this entry]

Vagabondish Travel-Writing Tips

By Abha | November 18th, 2007 |

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Vagabondish, a great portal full of travel-resources,tips and commentary, last week launched their ‘guide to better travel-writing’ which gave 23 habits of a good travel-writer.
Today they released the 2nd... [Read this entry]

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