How Lucy Brown Got Her Start in Travel Writing
Ultimate Travel Writer's Workshop attendee Lucy Brown landed a gig writing a travel guide and several bylines in International Living Magazine. Click here to see how she did this, and now lives on her own terms.
Now This is a Good Gig…
Jen Stevens describes her experiences in Nicaragua this week as she works on her latest travel writing assignment. She gives details about the benefits her career allows her and gives simple tips to get started.
Does This Look Like Work to You?
Jen Stevens provides examples of published travel articles while working from Grenada, Nicaragua. She focuses on advice to help those interested in travel writing get started writing articles that can be published by magazines and other publications.
Reader Lands Published Articles and Cover Photos
Bonnie Caton interviews travel-writing workshop attendee Caroline Maryan about her recent success as a travel writer and photographer following AWAI's Ultimate Travel Writing Workshop.
Thailand Report: Are they eating bugs?
Can you guess what our workshop leader, Rich Wagner is eating in Thailand? Here are photos from Thailand at the AWAI photo expedition in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.
The Added Perks of Travelling as a Duo
Ginny Ripley knows how to take advantage of travel writing’s many perks and how to leverage traveling as a duo into more paid assignments. See what they're up to now...
From London to Mongolia by Geo Metro
Scott Brills drove from Detroit to Mongolia. Read here to find out how you can do the same, and get paid at the same time...
A Travel Writer's Tale of Exploration, Meeting New People and Fighting Breast Cancer
When I asked Denver Post Travel Editor Kyle Wagner to write an issue
for this “Best Job in the World” series, I figured she'd mention some
of the most extravagant meals she sampled as a food writer, or one of
the travel adventures she’s written about as a newspaper travel
editor.
But what she sent goes far beyond any of that. It's the tale of
finding a true connection in her travels, of going places she
otherwise might not, and of celebrating human survival and her battle
with breast cancer.
We often talk about travel writing as the best job in the world
because of its glitz, glamour, and perks... its free trips and
published stories.
But Kyle’s story reminds us that it can go much deeper than that, too.
Scroll down to read it (and be warned that you might need a few
tissues before you do).
Tigers, Elephants, and Tales from the Raj
From strip club bar tender to factory bolt inspector, before she became a freelance travel writer, Steenie Harvey worked a flurry of bad jobs. Today, she enjoys not only the perks of travel writing, but the true stories that come from encounters with some of the world’s most interesting characters on her adventures across the world. Here's her take on the best job in the world...
The Best Job in the World - The Day I Knew It Was Real
The dancing yellow flames that provided a small island of light in the black jungle had all but disappeared. The only illumination left was a heaping mound of glowing coals that cast a dim, orange hue on the shadowed faces of my fellow travelers. Barely able to see each other in this open-sided gathering room, [...]
