Market Leads

Job Lead: Travel Writers Wanted For Asia

Date: December 17th, 2007 |

The Internet is rapidly moving into audio-visual content, the future is definitely podcasting and more so video-casting, so if you have the skills to write and produce audio and/or visual content for the Internet, now’s the time to start.
Podasia is a company that does travel podcasts covering a wide range of travel topics and is [read more]

Job Lead: Write Scripts for Audio and Video Travel Guides

Date: December 2nd, 2007 |

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Podasia.net, a website that allows you to download free travel guide podcasts, is expanding into providing video content for guides and integrating with online and print travel publications.
For this, they are looking for freelancers interested in generating content for specific theme-based travel guides. Current countries of interest are:
-India
-China
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Singapore
Basic job description: Translate, research, write, compile and [read more]

Vagabondish call for writers

Date: November 13th, 2007 |

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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: Quebec City Guide Writer

Date: December 4th, 2007 |

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Globe Pequot Press is looking for a travel-guide writer to cover Quebec City, Canada.
The book will be 64-pages and will include the regular categories of sights, shopping, entertainment, restaurants and hotels.
A few travel-guide writers, including Written Road’s very own travel-guide expert Nicholos Gill and Moon Handbook author Sean McLachlan, told me that once you [read more]

Travel-Writing Getaway in Spain!

Date: December 1st, 2007 |

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I have never been on a travel-writing getaway where you take a trip to do a short intensive course. I’m normally in the wrong continent or have been stuck in a cubicle working; now my life is different and it’s definitely the next thing on my list.
I often get disappointed that most travel-writing courses [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]