Market Leads

Vagabondish call for writers

Date: November 13th, 2007 |

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, and links/attachments [read more]

Job Lead: Coolhunter Contributors

Date: October 27th, 2007 |

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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]

Quito Guidebook Writing Bootcamp - Change In Date

Date: October 18th, 2007 |

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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 orig [read more]

Job Lead: Adventure Journey

Date: October 13th, 2007 |

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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 stories for [read more]

Market Leads: Outside and Travel Muse

Date: September 25th, 2007 |

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Outside magazine is searching for an Associate Editor/Copy Editor in their Santa Fe office. Candidates should have excellent editing and writing skills, one year copy editing experience, and proficiency in Quark or Copydesk.
To Apply: Send cover letter, resume, and clips to Will Palmer, the managing editor. Write Associate Editor in the subject line.
TravelMuse is seeking [read more]

Want To Be The Next Great Travel-Writer?

Date: October 30th, 2007 |

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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 your [read more]

Market Leads

Date: October 24th, 2007 |

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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]

Job Lead: Cruise Critic

Date: October 16th, 2007 |

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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 years [read more]

Upcoming Guidebook Writing Boot Camps

Date: October 11th, 2007 |

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Viva Travel Guide Books is holding a couple of week-long guidebook/travel writing crash courses over the next few months. They’re looking to train a select group of writers to be travel-writers; if you get chosen to part of the training, your internship will be to get out there and write a section of one of [read more]

Call For Travel-Writers: Map Magazine & So Much World

Date: September 22nd, 2007 |

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For those beginning writers who are looking to get some work published on some worthy websites, and don’t care about not making money off them should check out these new websites:
Map Magazine:
Recently launched, at the moment this website is focused only on Madrid, but does have plans to cover a wider geographical area. Called a [read more]