Feliz New Year, everyone! I’ve just returned from 66 hours in my favorite city on the planet — NYC — which I spent with six of my closest friends. It …
Interview with Jessie Sholl
Have you, like me, been obsessively watching all those TV shows that have come out about hoarding lately? My good friend Jessie Sholl has just published a memoir on …
A Year in Books
Last night, I fulfilled one of my (admittedly geeky) New Year’s resolutions for 2010: I read 60 books in a year. Welcome to grad school! Granted, not all of those …
Passports with Purpose
Now hear this: The beautiful people at Passports with Purpose have recently launched their 2010 fundraising campaign, and it’s amazing. After raising nearly $30,000 last year and building a …
NonfictioNow Conference
Any essayist within 500 miles of the Hawkeye State should drive on over to Iowa City for the biennial NonfictioNow Conference, which kicks off Thursday, November 4 at …
Interview with Ayun Halliday
Exciting news on the guidebook front. My travel writer friend Ayun Halliday has just published a sweet new ditty: The Zinester’s Guide to New York City, which folks …
Interview with Erika Connor
This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has taken care of wild birds and raccoons in rehabilitation centers, traveled by white horse in West Africa and Mongolia, and lived …
South Texas Rebel
I am excited to announce that the Dallas Morning News just published my profile of a South Texas hero: Lionel Lopez. Here is an excerpt:
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Interview with Richard Goodman
New Book Alert: Richard Goodman, writer extraordinaire, has just released A New York Memoir: fourteen essays about thirty years spent in the world’s most glorious city. …
Submissions Call: BWTW 2011
I am pleased to announce that the lovely and talented Lavinia Spalding has just been named editor of Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011. What follows is the official call for submissions. Ladies: send her your work!
Calling All Women Travel Writers!
Is there a story held captive in you that’s begging to be set free? Here’s your chance to liberate it. Send your best true tale of the road to be considered for Travelers’ Tales’ The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011. We’re looking for the full range of experience: adventurous, mystical, funny, poignant, cuisine-related, cross-cultural, transformational, funny, illuminating, frightening, or grim—as well as solo travel and travel with friends, partners, and families. Stories should reflect that unique alchemy that occurs when you enter unfamiliar territory and begin to see the world differently as a result. Previously published essays are OK, provided you control all rights to the story. Multiple submissions are also OK.
The deadline is September 21st.
Interview with Laurie Weed
When not riding the rails through Burma, getting lost in Laos, hitchhiking to Honduras, or bribing her way into Bali, this week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor is spinning exotic tales and clever copy from Northern California: Laurie Weed.
Latina Book Club
Just heard word that the lovely mujeres at Latina Book Club have posted a little Q&A we recently conducted about travel, books, and the writing life …