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...Month: October 2007
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...Swamped But Loving It
Sorry from my end also for being a bit lax on posting here. I’ve been over my head blogging (not writing :)) Other than Written Road, I now write for Gadling, Vagablogging, Gridskipper, and Map Magazine — am committed to doing a minimum of 26 posts a week (!!!!!!), that doesn’t include my own personal […]
» Read more...Market Leads
Sorry I’ve been slacking on my posts lately, I’m up to my neck in guidebook work, not to mention took a few days off to run to Vegas, and have had to put a few other projects to the side for the time being. I have about 6 weeks of traveling divided among Peru, Honduras, […]
» 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: Cruise Critic
Cruise Critic has announced they are looking for an Assistant Editor to work in their Pennington, New Jersey (near Princeton) office. The editor will write, edit, update and publish cruise-related stories, fact check, write promotional teasers, copy edit, etc. Qualifications: Candidates should have a college degree, experience in Photoshop and some web publishing software, 1-3 […]
» 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 […]
» Read more...2007 Lowell Thomas Award Winners
The results are in for the Society of American Travel Writer’s 2007 Lowell Thomas Awards. This year the record high 1,490 entries submitted for categories such as Travel Jourmalist of the Year and Article on Marine Travel were judged by the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism. Several friends of Written Road won out […]
» Read more...Upcoming Guidebook Writing Boot Camps
Viva Travel Guide Books is holding a couple of week-long guidebook/travel writing crash courses over the next few months. They’re looking to train a select group of writers to be travel-writers; if you get chosen to part of the training, your internship will be to get out there and write a section of one of […]
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