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Matador U Students Share Their Success Stories

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Just 4 weeks into the travel writing school, several students have landed travel blogging gigs.   More »

Nomadic Matt releases travel ebook about SEO and monetizing blogs

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"This book is designed to help those with blogs make an even bigger and better blog and make some money off of it."  More »

Bradt Travel Guides Announces Competition

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Pull out your pen and get writing for a chance to win a trip for two to Colombia and see your name in print.   More »

New Paid Travel Writing Opportunities from BootsnAll

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For all the aspiring and working travel writers out there: our friends over at BootsnAll have just launched two new paid travel writing outlets.  More »

Do You Need “a Stimulus Package for your Wanderlust”?

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Of course you do. Which is why our friends at Wend Magazine are offering a one-year digital subscription for the obscenely low price of $5.  More »

Where Do the Best Travel Stories Come From?

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Just about everywhere, it turns out. And I don't just mean every corner of the physical world, either -- they can be spun out of even the most unexpec  More »

Narrative Travel Writing from Transitions Abroad


Looking for some quality travel writing to stir up your wanderlust? Check out the winners and runners up in this year's Narrative Travel Writing Conte  More »

How To Become a Foreign Correspondent

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Blogger Scarlett Lion recently offered up some really thoughtful, motivational tips on becoming a correspondent in Africa. She knows a thing or two a  More »

Travel Writing: Now About That First Paragraph…

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Literary agent Nathan Bransford recently held a contest on his blog, seeking the best first paragraph he could find. He’s just announced the wi  More »

Vagablogging: Writers Wanted!


It’s that time of year again. Rolf Potts’ Vagablogging.net is seeking two new writers to contribute a couple of posts per week, on anythi  More »

Camels, Unicycles, Kayaks: Enter Wend’s Alternative Transportation Essay Contest!

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Our friends over at Wend Magazine are putting on a fun new writing competition: the Traveling by Alternative Transportation Essay Contest. Got a stor  More »

Stephanie Nolen: Goodbye Africa, Hello India

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Photo by Lollie-Pop (Creative Commons) Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s one-woman African bureau, is one of my favourite journalists ̵  More »

Should Travel Writers Blog?

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Before you ask: yes, I’ve already grasped the irony of raising this subject on a blog. Anyway, irony aside, I’ve been noticing different  More »

Learn About Travel Writing in Key West This Winter

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The good bloggers over at Frommers would like to remind all of us aspiring travel writer types about the upcoming Key West Travel Writing Workshop.   More »

Wise Words from Working Writers

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Matador’s own Tim Patterson popped up in an interview on Written Road this week — you can read it here — and the discussion (with a  More »

Writers: Contribute to Wend Magazine!

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The excellent Wend Magazine has just introduced a new online section called iWend, which will – among other things – feature a series of   More »

Authonomy.com: Digital Slush Pile or the Road to Writing Success?


HarperCollins recently introduced a new way for prospective authors to get their books noticed, and it’s way Web 2.0. Authonomy.com lets you up  More »

Rolf Potts: On His New Book, “Letting It Flow,” And The Stories That Never Got Written

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Ten years ago Rolf Potts stormed onto the travel writing scene as a wandering columnist for Salon.com. Since then, he’s been published in the t  More »

Matt Gross, Live In New York


See the New York Times columnist speak in New York.  More »

Rolf Potts Goes On Tour!


Vagabondingauthor Rolf Potts has a new book out – Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Trav  More »

What did you do on your summer vacation? Write about it and win free travel!


Photo by Sarah Giesecke Remember those essays you used to write in the first week back at grade school, “What I Did On My Summer Vacation̶  More »

Know Vienna? Know Budapest? PlanetEye Wants You!


Photo by Obbino (Creative Commons) If you know Vienna or Budapest like a local because you ARE a local, then PlanetEye wants to hear from you! Plane  More »

Writers Wanted: Written Road


Photo by Nicholas T (Creative Commons) It’s been a busy week for travel writing opportunities. Here’s the latest: Longstanding travel wr  More »

Writer Wanted: Vagablogging.net


Photo by Greg Westfall (Creative Commons) If you’re an aspiring travel writer and long-term travel enthusiast, chances are you’ve come a  More »

Travel Writing: Think Local, Act Local

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Photo by Dro!d (Creative Commons) The first lesson we were taught in my ninth grade writing class is one that most of us have heard about a zillion   More »

Bye-bye backpacker, hello flashpacker?

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Guest Editorial by Matador member Matt Kepnes Somewhere before my bus broke down in Australia, I was called a flashpacker. Despite being on the road   More »

Freebie of the Week: The Snake Charmer

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Back when they were in college, my parents’ idea of a cool Saturday night date was hunting for snakes in the Florida swampland. Perhaps that’s   More »

Community Spotlight: Matador Members Online

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Another one of the perks of the Pulse editing job is surfing through the Matador network and meeting really interesting travelers who aren’t s  More »

Bryan Mealer in the Congo


Photo by Ana Cotta (Creative Commons) I’ve been known to criticize the incessant darkness and the emphasis on the catastrophic that characteri  More »

“Ya’ll come see us now, ya hear?”

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The South: It ain’t all ’bout beer ‘n’ guns. Pulse co-editor Eva Holland recently returned from a month-long road trip aroun  More »

Ever wanted to go on assignment with National Geographic?

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Photo by anuradha Well, duh. If you’re an aspiring travel photographer, I’m guessing the answer to that question is a big, loud YES! Her  More »

“Oh give me a home…”

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If you’re a writer, you don’t need me to tell you about that creeping feeling of anxiety that swells up at the end of each month when yo  More »

Calling All Travel Writers and Photographers!


Photo by uzvards (Creative Commons) Heading to the Bay Area this summer, and keen to learn more about travel writing and photography? The excellent  More »

The Low-Down on Press Trips


Press trips are a strange animal. For the aspiring travel writer they can be a crucial money-saving and door-opening opportunity. On the other hand,  More »

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