AOL Travel is currently seeking freelance city bloggers for Miami, Charlotte, Boston and Honolulu. It’s an ideal gig if you’ve got the lowdown on everything that’s happening in your city, particularly the following subjects: Nightlife, Food/Restaurants, Shopping, Arts & Culture & Hotel Beats. Requirements: Experience with travel industry with a focus on ‘real scoop’ Integrating […]
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AOL Seeks Travel Bloggers; Various Locations
AOL Travel has an opening for Travel Bloggers in approximately 25 different markets. Requirements: a) # of posts per week: 1-2 posts per day (half free-form on what’s new and hot in city, half guided by assigned theme) b) Integrating links to guides in posts. c) Post length: between 150-300 words d) Must be familiar […]
» Read more...Guide Gecko Announces Contest
I have been trying to avoid listing contests details on Written Road, but this one seems unusually cool. GuideGecko is an online travel bookstore that sells ebooks and PDFs of many rare, out of print, and hard to find travel guides, many of which are self published. For anyone that self publishes a guide (bloggers, […]
» Read more...Job Lead: Assistant Editor for Spirit Magazine
Spirit, the inflight magazine for Southwest Airlines, has an opening for an assistant editor in their Dallas office. To apply: E-mail resume, clips, and cover letter to Associate Editor Mike Darling at mike.darling[at]paceco.com.
» Read more...Be Trazzler’s first travel writer-in-residence, in New York City
News of Tazzler’s Summer Travel Writing Contest has just come my way. And the theme is … (they must have known what I’m currently craving) … ‘Oasis’. Oasis 1. n. a fertile or green area in an arid region (as a desert). 2. n. something that provides refuge, relief, or pleasant contrast. Tazzler want to […]
» Read more...Market Lead: Call For Submissions “The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010”
Female writers pay attention, this market lead is just for you. The renowned travel publisher Travelers’ Tales is now accepting submissions for next year’s The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010. The deadline is August 1, 2009 so if you have an unfinished piece waiting to be completed, you still have a couple of weeks to […]
» Read more...Job Lead: Inflight Editor for Mexican Airline in Brooklyn
No that’s not a typo. INK Publishing, which handles nearly every inflight magazine these days (I’m not knocking that though. The refreshed United Airlines Hemispheres is looking stellar) is searching for an Editor in Chief for a bimonthly title of an anonymous Mexican Airline for their Dumbo Brooklyn , New York office. Fluent speaking/writing Spanish […]
» Read more...Where Am I Wearing iPod Give Away
Fellow Ohioan Kelsey Timmerman, author of the book Where Am I Wearing? and Blog of the same name has redesigned his website and to celebrate giving away a free iPod and some clever writerly advice. It’s a cool site and worth checking out, if not for the iPod alone. The contest ends Tuesday and all […]
» Read more...Job & Market Lead: Editorial and Internship Positions at Matador Network
Our good friends over at Matador Network have finally put together a full listing of all current job openings. If you know even a little about the online travel writing community, you know that Matador Network is one of the big players, so these gigs should intrigue you. Current Openings: Contributing Editor at Matador Sports […]
» Read more...National Geographic Adventure Channel – See Your documentary aired
Attention all budding travel-filmmakers! WorldNomads.com has a travel documentary scholarship up for grabs. They want to take you and your talents to Vietnam, then air your work on the National Geographic Adventure Channel. You’ll be lead by producer Trent O’Donnell across Southeast Asian with a team of 20 volunteer doctors. The doctors’ mission is to […]
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