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By Dawn-Marie Hanrahan on April 16, 2013
Reader Dawn-Marie Hanrahan landed a three-day weekend press trip... and so can you! Read on for her story and more details...
Posted in - Articles, Where to Sell Your Stories | Tagged free press trips, reader success, travel column, travel writing success
By Bonnie Caton on October 9, 2010
Allyson Gierke, tells us how she recently got her first article and photo published in a local magazine near her home in Billings, Montana.
Posted in - Articles, Become a Travel Writer, Interviews with Our Members, Travel Writing Tips | Tagged AWAI success stories, get paid to travel, get published, reader success, travel writing success |
By Bonnie Caton on October 8, 2010
Bonnie Caton interviews AWAI member Patrick Longfield to find out the approach he used to get published and land his first by-line and photo credit.
Posted in - Articles, Become a Travel Writer, Interviews with Our Members | Tagged AWAI success stories, getting published, interview, photo credit, travel writing success |
By The Travel Writer's Life on September 2, 2010
Travel writer Ginny Ripley shares her success story with our readers. Read her interview to find out more about how you can get published and land travel discounts and perks.
Posted in - Articles, Interviews with Our Members, Travel Writing Tips | Tagged getting published, interview, travel discounts, travel writing perks, travel writing success
By Bonnie Caton on July 10, 2010
AWAI Member Ginny Ripley always keeps a detailed travel journal — and it’s a good thing, because her first published article was about a trip she took months before she wrote it. Here's her story with details on how she regularly enjoys discounts, perks, and upgrades that afford her more luxurious, exotic trips as a travel writer.
Posted in - Articles, Interviews with Our Members, Travel Writing Tips | Tagged AWAI success stories, get paid to travel, get published, travel writing, travel writing success
By Bonnie Caton on July 8, 2010
Read our interview with travel writer Mary Mayo, and find out how his unusual travels helped kick-start his exciting career in travel writing.
Posted in - Articles, Interviews with Our Members, Travel Writing Tips | Tagged travel writing contest, travel writing success
By Bonnie Caton on July 8, 2010
The Right Way to Travel interviews travel writer Judy Hazel about how she began her exciting new career as a travel writer. Read here to find out how you can do the same...
Posted in - Articles, Interviews with Our Members, Travel Writing Tips | Tagged getting published, travel writer success stories, travel writing success
By Lee A. Harrison on June 4, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in - Articles, An Inside Look: The Best Job in the World | Tagged get paid to travel, get published, travel writing success
By The Travel Writer's Life on May 21, 2010
Dear Reader, Yesterday, we heard from Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop attendee, Tamara O’Dell, on how she found success writing for a small, regional magazine near her home in Colorado Springs, CO. Today, for this week’s Featured Publication, I asked Tamara to give us some more details about what it takes to get published in that [...]
Posted in - Articles, Where to Sell Your Stories | Tagged Alegria Living, get published, travel writing success
By The Travel Writer's Life on May 20, 2010
Dear Reader, Tamara O’Dell came to the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop last July in Denver, Colorado, where she picked up three days’ worth of step-by-step advice on getting started as a travel writer. Formerly in PR, Tamara coupled what she learned in Denver with what she knows about good networking to land her first published [...]
Posted in - Articles, Travel Writing Tips, Where to Sell Your Stories | Tagged get published, getting published, travel writing, travel writing success
By The Travel Writer's Life on March 18, 2010
Dear Reader, Yesterday we interviewed freelance travel writer and past workshop attendee, Sandra Kennedy. As a retired teacher, Sandra uses travel writing to supplement her income and take all-expenses-paid trips, feeding her ever-present wanderlust. Yesterday, she gave us a few tips on how to find press trips and writing gigs. If you missed that issue, [...]
Posted in - Articles, Better Your Writing, Travel Writing Tips | Tagged travel article query letters, travel writing success
By The Travel Writer's Life on March 17, 2010
Dear Reader, I met Sandra Kennedy when she came to the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in Buenos Aires back in 2005. She barely said a word while she was there. And during workshop peer reviews, she didn’t even read her piece aloud. But she was listening and observing. And less than four months later, using [...]
Posted in - Articles, An Inside Look: The Best Job in the World, Interviews with Our Members | Tagged supplement your income, travel writing success
By David Morgan on March 5, 2010
When writing a travel article, be sure to tell the editor something he or she doesn't already know. Make your travel article a unique one by asking yourself a few simple questions: Is the idea behind the article unique? Am I sending it to the right publication? Is my idea specific? Read on for more details from professional freelance travel writer David Morgan...
Posted in - Articles, Better Your Writing, Travel Writing Tips | Tagged travel writing success, unique travel articles
By The Travel Writer's Life on January 8, 2010
AWAI: 2009 Year in Review. Read on to get inspired by our own readers' success stories...
Posted in - Articles, Become a Travel Writer, Photography Tips for Writers | Tagged AWAI, reader success, travel writing success
By Bonnie Caton on September 25, 2009
Get published in papers: Read on to hear two member success stories...
Posted in - Articles, Where to Sell Your Stories | Tagged get published, get published in papers, travel writing success
