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. The author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of…
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.
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.
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 ...
This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has trekked across the Mongolian steppe, dived with Red Sea sharks, and explored Parisian cafes: Diane LeBow. She is president of the Bay Area Travel Writers.
This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor was born in Pakistan, is fluent in French, is married to an Italian, and considers herself a cultural chameleon: Maliha Masood. She is the author of Zaatar Days, Henna Nights, a travel memoir about her riveting escape from a dotcom Seattle cubicle to a solo expedition across Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey for one tumultuous year.
Friends, I hate to break it to you, but summer is rapidly vaporizing, all around us. How can we hold on, you ask? By capturing our summer adventures, of course! Travelers' Tales has just announced its annual travel writing contest known as the Solas Awards. Here is the skinny ...
This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor lives within walking distance of six synagogues in Brookline, Massachusetts: Deborah Milstein. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University and is currently writing a memoir about Jewish identity. When…
Just heard word that my comadre in New York, Maria Ferrer, has started a new blog called Latina Book Club, dedicated to promoting the words of our gente. In addition to author and editor interviews, book reviews, giveaways, and the…
This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has published fiction, poetry, and essays in Ms, Poets & Writers, Kweli, and Guernica, and has won fellowships from Bread Loaf and the Macondo Writers’ Workshop: Jennifer De Leon. Although she calls Boston home, Guatemala is her motherland.