Resources for Writers

Interview: Ross Borden

Date: December 14th, 2007 |

As we continue our series of interviews in travel media, co-founder of Matador Travel Ross Borden sits down to answer questions on creating their rapidly expanding site, The Traveler’s Notebook, the Bounty Board , his personal travel preferences, and much, much, more. Enjoy!
Written Road: How did you first become involved in travel writing/publishing?
Ross Borden: Matador [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 Travel-Writing Tips

Date: 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 part of the multi-series that shares ‘20 time-tested techniques for travel writers‘ that also has exercises that you might want to try out.
The series congregates [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]

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]

My Interview On Write-To-Travel!

Date: November 21st, 2007 |

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I had the privilege of being interviewed (as a travel-writer!) by KiwiWriter for her wonderfully resourceful travel-writing blogs Write-To-Travel.
It’s my first proper interview and I’m thrilled. I must be doing something right!
Check it [read more]

Travel-Writing Web 2.0

Date: November 15th, 2007 |

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For those who haven’t seen this already, there is a great interview with Tim Leffel done by our friends at Brave New Traveler.
With everything under the sun moving online at an incredibly fast pace, the future of travel-writing on the Internet is a hot topic. I personally think that just for the pace at which [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]

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]