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Featured Publication: Spirit Magazine

Spirit Magazine is the only in-flight entertainment offered on Southwest Airlines and, as a great source of distraction for passengers, it doesn't limit itself to articles about travel. This month's issue covers stories on Detroit and Las Vegas, as well as tidbits about TV characters, country music singers, facts about submarines, and recipes for coffee [...]

How One Reader Scored Two Paid Vacations and 41 Bylines: Interview with AWAI Member Sandra Kennedy

BONNIE: Hi Sandra. I understand you've turned your travels into paid vacations. Can you tell us a little bit more about how you got started and how, specifically, you went from sitting in a chair at the Ultimate Travel Writer's Workshop to sitting in an airplane seat on your way to an all-expenses-paid trip to [...]

Hotel Surcharges and Nine Odd Uses for Toothpaste

Hotels love to add surcharges onto every long-distance call you make from your room. And I love to sneakily avoid them. Here's how: When you've got more than one long-distance call to make from your hotel room, don't hang up between calls. Instead, wait for the person on the other end of the line to [...]

FEATURED PUBLICATION: San Francisco Chronicle Magazine

The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine (http://www.sfgate.com/magazine) is a twice-monthly publication that goes out with the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, the largest newspaper in Northern California. At first glance, the stories on the magazine’s website seem to cover a hodgepodge of topics. They range from restaurant reviews to breast cancer information to a story about an [...]

Four Things I Thought I Knew About Travel Writing

I went to the Ultimate Travel Writer's Workshop in Portland last July to see what I could do with a journal full (six months' worth) of travel stories and thousands of photos. I desperately wanted to be a travel writer but I didn't know where to start. I thought about it and read about it [...]

FEATURED PUBLICATION: Matador Travel

Matador Travel is a hub of nine different e-zines wrapped into one online travel community. Each separate arm of the site has its own writer's guidelines and each is on the lookout for fresh content. There's a travel article style for everyone here, from trip ideas to traveling and studying abroad, travel tips, nightlife, travel [...]