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...Free E-Book From Matador: 15 Paying Travel Magazines That Want Your Travel Writing
Over at Matador they’ve whipped up a pretty sweet PDF titled 15 Paying Travel Magazines That Want Your Travel Writing. Should be an excellent resource for anyone who is looking to get into their travel writing career or just needs a bit of inspiration for where to send queries. All you have to do is […]
» Read more...AFAR: A New Travel Magazine!!!
Yesterday I received the premier issue of AFAR magazine in the mail. I was beyond impressed. There were travel stories about off beat international locals and there wasn’t a tie in to a Marriot resort to be found anywhere. There is a write up of South African Bunny Chow, a street food. An entire spread […]
» 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...Shameless Self Promotion: New World Review Launches
I’ve become increasingly worried about the state of the media as newspapers cut staff and magazines fold left and right, so I have felt a growing urge to begin posting something significant on the web. It has been a long time coming, but I finally have my own independent ezine to launch: New World Review. […]
» 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 […]
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