A lot of the time travel writing isn't glamorous or glorious; often it's about getting your hands dirty and working hard to unearth the truth behind accepted norms. That's certainly the case for Kelsey…
Read more →Happy 2009 everyone. Here's to a successful travelling and travel writing year. I'll start this new year by extending the life of my intentionally pseudo-authoritative, fairly frivolous and suitably…
Read more →Sometimes these days it's easy to forget there are success stories in journalism. Like say for instance the story of Backpacker Magazine assistant editor Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan. Elisabeth started out as…
Read more →Working in the online travel writing community means that sometimes you feel like you know people without having ever met them. Such is the case with Tim Patterson. A well known name on the Matador…
Read more →We read a lot about the death of print these days . For travel journalists like myself the statement is usually followed up with a stiff drink and not-so-fleeting moment of insecurity. Just this past week…
Read more →Working out the technical kinks to embed the video directly into the blog, but until then, check out Written Road's new video channel over at Vimeo.com. The first video features John Kaemmerling , a San…
Read more →Just this past weekend while sipping coffee and soaking up the late-summer sun in my hometown of Santa Cruz, California, I met up with Karen Kefauver , an experienced adventure travel writer with a…
Read more →Anyone that's familiar with the online travel writing world will know the name Matador Travel . That's right, it's the networking site for us travel lovers that have a desire to write about all of our…
Read more →And as a follow up to last week's post ... ...I asked Jonathan Lorie, the director of Travellers' Tales and ex-editor of Traveller magazine, a few questions. How much of a traveller writer's success…
Read more →I ran into Cullen Thomas around NYC during a few writer events and he was kind enough to agree to an interview for Written Road. He is the author of Brother One Cell , a book about his time in a South…
Read more →Dreaming to write for the Lonely Planet is often where your inspiration to become a travel-writer comes from. I remember I frequently used to spend time in a book shop reading and taking down notes from…
Read more →As we continue our series of interviews in travel media, co-founder of Matador Travel Ross Borden sits down to answer questions on creating their rapidly expanding site, The Traveler's Notebook , the…
Read more →For those who haven't seen this already, there is a great interview with Tim Leffel done by our friends at Brave New Traveler . With everything under the sun moving online at an incredibly fast pace, the…
Read more →Our friends at Brave New Traveler have just published an interview with Rolf Potts where, other than his thoughts on the future of travel writing, he talks about online-travel writing, the "hum of…
Read more →Writer David Farley has been featured in notable publications such as The Washington Post, Perceptive Travel , and Playboy . He was the co-editor of Travelers' Tales Prague and teaches travel writing at…
Read more →Britan's Mike Gerrard is one of the world's most prolific guidebook writers and has been one of the lucky few to have a steady career in travel writing. He was kind enough to grant Written Road an…
Read more →Michael Luongo is the author of Frommer's Buenos Aires guidebook and a contributor to publications such as Out Traveler, The Advocate, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Town & Country Travel,…
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