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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 school in rural Cambodia (which opened this October), they are currently…

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 the University of Iowa. For three days, we’ll be celebrating nonfiction in…

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 are calling “an anecdotal, illustrated, low budget, highly participatory exploration of the…

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: CORPUS CHRISTI – Depending on whom you ask, Lionel Lopez is either Jiminy Cricket –…

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.

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.

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 ...