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Call From National Press Club For Travel Writers

Date: June 5th, 2007 |

If you are an editor, photographer, a writer, trying to be a writer, or whatever, as long as you are waddling in the travel-publishing industry, and want to share your experiences with a crowd who will listen to what you have to say, this opportunity may be yours.
The event is being sponsored by the National [read more]

Written Road at the Bloggers Choice Awards

Date: June 1st, 2007 |

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So we have been nominated - thanks Taylor, you rock!
Friends, readers, bloggers, writers and travellers: we have one vote.
So, if this blog has meant anything to you, ever, please go vo [read more]

Call For Unusual Travel Stories

Date: May 31st, 2007 |

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Brothels on a farm, airports designed like footballs, a visit to a kimchi museum, a midnight party with extras on a film set in Brazil — that’s the kind of stuff that will be online soon on Meander Magazine.
The new e-zine is set to launch in July, and is looking for stories on all [read more]

US Launch Tour: Lonely Planet Books

Date: May 25th, 2007 |

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Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference

Date: May 20th, 2007 |

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The 16th Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference will take place this year from August 16-19 in California, (just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco).
Word is that alongside writing guru’s such as Don George, Tim Cahill, Isabel Allende and Rolf Potts (to name a few), our very own Jen Leo will be [read more]

How Traveling Made Her a Writer…

Date: June 3rd, 2007 |

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Check out a great interview on Gadling with founder or Seal Press Barbara Sjoholm. The interview has been done by our very own Kelly Amabile, and is in the context of one of Barbara’s latest books “Incognito Street: How Traveling Made Me A Writer”.
The interview is inspiring and full of bits of advice and useful [read more]

An All New Gridskipper: Snazzy and Spreadout

Date: June 1st, 2007 |

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Gridskipper re-launched yesterday and the result is a completely new look, expanded features, wider focus, more contributors and detailed maps with hotspots marked out per city. New focus cities include: Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Sydney. Although now it looks more obviously part of ‘Gawker’, the changes and extras are all [read more]

Job Lead: BUG Europe Travel Guide

Date: May 25th, 2007 |

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The Backpackers Ultimate Guide (BUG) is looking to fill 12 one-month long travel research positions for a Europe travel guide.
The job would involve:
-reviewing hostels (100-150 words per hostel)
-couple of introductory paragraphs for each destination (100-500 words each)
-writing about eating & drinking sections for the larger destinations (100-500 words each)
The work is set for completion this [read more]

The Travel Channel Acquires World Hum

Date: May 21st, 2007 |

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The word has just gotten out, and it’s already been covered considerably. The Travel Channel has acquired World Hum.
Taken over!? Gobbled-up by the fierce and firey bigshots at Discovery? Log on to World Hum now and you can already see embedded into the page The Travel Channel orange ‘T’ on the top right corner. [read more]