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Job Lead: AOL Travel Editorial/Programming Director

Date: February 27th, 2009 |

If you are a veteran travel writer - 5 years or more - and can work your way around a CMS (if you don’t know what CMS is don’t bother), AOL Travel has an opening for a Editorial/Programming Director in their Sterling, VA office. They are offering a competitive salary as well as 401K/403B, Bonuses, [read more]

Folio Mag Webinars on New Media

Date: January 28th, 2009 |

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For freelance writers, it’s important to keep up to date on what’s going on in the publishing industry. Knowing the industry that you are writing for is crucial when pitching and coming up with content and that industry is no longer defined solely by print. Here at Written Road, Tim Shishler has done an excellent [read more]

Market Lead: World Swirl Press

Date: January 15th, 2009 |

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Travel writer Erik Trinidad is putting together a guide and anthology under a micropublishing venture, World Swirl Press. We put out this call previously, but he is still looking for contributors with narrative and service-y pieces about travel scams - pickpocket scams, bait and switches, frauds, false accusations…1,000 words or less. The deadline has been [read more]

Why You Should Start Your Writing Career in College

Date: January 13th, 2009 |

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I came across the Transitions Abroad Student Travel Writing Contest this morning and it got me thinking about writing at a younger age. There is information on the contest at the end of this post, but I wanted to start with this:
It’s never too early to start your writing career, and there are several reasons [read more]

Job Lead: Go Copy Editor

Date: January 6th, 2009 |

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Job in travel print media have been hard to come by as of late, though I just caught this one. Go Magazine, the inflight mag of Air Tran, is looking for a Copy Editor for their DUMBO Brooklyn, NY office.
Qualifications:
-Two years of experience proofreading, editing and fact-checking
-Bachelor’s degree
-Quick learner, extremely detail-oriented, and able to [read more]

NileGuide.com Seeks Local Experts

Date: February 17th, 2009 |

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NileGuide is an intelligent sort of travel guide, letting travelers create their own trips based upon their preferences that are then used to make specialized guide books that can be printed or accessed from a user’s iPhone; it’s like having a local guide right at your fingertips. But to create all the content, reviews and [read more]

Barefoot Expeditions Seeks Intern

Date: January 20th, 2009 |

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It seems that nowadays there are few travel writers that don’t keep up a blog. And with the rise in social marketing tools (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) writers are becoming equally as skilled in networking as they are in crafting eloquent prose. If you’re proficient in all of the above, the internship at Barefoot Expeditions may [read more]

Job Leads: Budget Travel, Outside’s Go

Date: January 14th, 2009 |

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Budget Travel
The publication is looking for a Deputy Editor for their New York office. The Deputy Editor will help oversee and steer all aspects of the magazine and special projects. S/he will work closely with the Editor-in-Chief to top-edit all sections of the magazine, and conceive of, assign and edit packages and features. S/he will [read more]

Southern-based writer and Civil War Expert - Sought by Globe Pequot Press

Date: January 9th, 2009 |

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It’s the time of the year that guidebook publishers begin work to tie up their commissions for the upcoming year. This is when work really begins on the 2010 editions of their guidebooks.
Travel writers with a leaning towards the historical may be interested in this lead.
Globe Pequot Press seek an updater for their guides [read more]

Three Small Questions This New Year

Date: January 2nd, 2009 |

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Happy New Year all! Here at Written Road we may be separated by oceans, mountains and a few thousand miles, but our goals are the same: to become better writers, editors and tell the wonderful stories associated with travel. So as 2008 comes to a close and 2009 begins, I wanted to ask three small [read more]

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