Publishers

The Independent on Sunday Looks For Fresh Travel Writing Talent

Date: May 10th, 2009 |

The deadline approaches for the annual travel writing contest from Bradt travel guides and The Independent On Sunday. Get your submission in by May 15th to be in with a chance of showcasing your writing in a British broadsheet newspaper. There’s a trip to Columbia or a travel writing holiday to Spain (with Travellers Tales) [read more]

Travel Writing and Editorial - one print editor’s utopian view of online travel content

Date: November 30th, 2008 |

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Regular readers will know that my professional transition from print guidebook publishing to the web is still very much in its infancy. My experience is rooted in a world of well-established publishing schedules, editorial style guides, procedures and decades of travel writing experience embodied by a community of writers, plus translators, editors, photographers and factcheckers [read more]

How In Your Pocket’s re-vamped site acts as forum and practice ground

Date: September 14th, 2008 |

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In Your Pocket guides – synonymous with trustworthy local expertise – really came to the forefront of online and locally-distributed travel content via their coverage of emerging and expanding Eastern European destinations. I’ve caught up with Editor-in-chief, Craig Turp, for the latest news on their re-vamped website. Still at beta stage, the improved site aims [read more]

Job Lead: Travel Journalist For Stonesong Press

Date: June 21st, 2008 |

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Stonesong Press is looking for a travel journalist to be the lead author on a series of books that will detail the best movies and books that capture the feel of a foreign country/city.
The series is as much for armchair travelers as it is for globetrotters. Each title will cover a specific country [read more]

Job Lead: Ghost Writer For Travel Book

Date: April 30th, 2008 |

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Pat and Cat Patterson have traveled 23,000 miles on bicycle, across 57 countries, over 4-years, and are currently looking for a ghost-writer to help them put together their travelogues for a book proposal.
The book is to have special focus towards Boomers as they hope to encourage (from their own example) “senior” people “get off their [read more]

Fodor’s and Lonely Planet - submit travel content, win competitions

Date: January 16th, 2009 |

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They won’t pay the bills, but winning competitions such as these will certainly buoy the spirit of aspiring travel writers and photographers. Both definitely sound worth a punt to me, if only as a chance to polish your prose and pictures. Plus, there are prizes to be won!
As Fodor’s may also feature your pictures on [read more]

Travel News and Features - where do your best stories come from?

Date: October 3rd, 2008 |

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I’m feeling reflective about pitches and travel features, and have spent time this week revisiting and reviewing my contacts list. And with World Travel Market on the horizon in November it’s a prime time to focus on the type of leads and people that really deliver.
With my background in guidebooks, my professional network consists [read more]

Get Your Travel Book Noticed by Agents and Publishers– authonomy.com from HarperCollins

Date: September 5th, 2008 |

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If you’ve crafted your inspiring, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart rendering, memoir of weeks, months or years spent travelling the continents of the world then it’s definitely time to design a cover for it, get it out there and take a stab at getting published. Having a travel book published is the holy-grail for most [read more]

Fall 2008: Be A National Geographic Correspondent

Date: May 19th, 2008 |

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“Glimpse” — National Geographic’s new print and online platform (urr…magazine?) is looking for people aged between 18-30 who plan to spend at least 10-weeks studying abroad from August 15-December 30, to report on their experiences.
Each correspondent will receive a $600 stipend and be assigned a professional editor to help them produce high quality, multimedia stories.
Key [read more]

Interview With Robert Reid: The Rise Of Online Travel Guides

Date: March 25th, 2008 |

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I subscribe to a million (not exaggerating) RSS feeds, from EVERYWHERE. I enjoy most I subscribe to, and I subscribe to new ones almost every day (yes, I’m obsessed) which is precisely why I often miss good stuff — that goes completely against the whole point of subscribing to feeds from cool sites. This interview [read more]

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