archives: Travel Writing

Today, we'd like to share with you a few travel stories from our very own Matadorians.  More »

Three Matador editors celebrate awards and publications.   More »

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

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »