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 […]
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Job Lead: Write Scripts for Audio and Video Travel Guides
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 […]
» Read more...My Interview On Write-To-Travel!
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 out here!
» Read more...Vagabondish Travel-Writing Tips
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 […]
» Read more...Travel-Writing Web 2.0
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 […]
» Read more...Want To Be The Next Great Travel-Writer?
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 […]
» Read more...Job Lead: Coolhunter Contributors
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
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 original post.
» Read more...Job Lead: Adventure Journey
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 […]
» Read more...Guest Article: Tips For Your First Press Trip
Here at Written Road, we have the privilege of being in contact with some great travel-writers who want to share their expertise. Sometimes, we get even luckier and they offer to write something for us! This article is a guest piece written by Andrea Calabretta — a freelance writer and editor living in Boston, MA […]
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