travel essay contest

deadline is June 15, 2012; The Writer 2012 Travel Essay Contest; up to 1,200 words; entry fee is $10; cash prizes $200, $300, $1,000; details HERE:

www.writermag.com/travelcontest

Traveler’s Tales – paying anthology – multiple contests/anthologies

Details on multiple contests and anthologies HERE:

http://www.travelerstales.com/guidelines/

publisher seeking book-length manuscripts

Homebound, an imprint of Hiraeth Press, is now accepting submissions of book-length manuscripts in the following genres:

– fiction

– YA

– short story collections

– epic/narrative verse

– travel writing

– biography/memoir

– journals

– essay collections

http://homebound.hiraethpress.com/submissions/

Free travel story writing contest

Leap Local just sent me this:

Guidelines: http://www.leaplocal.org/competitions/travel-story-competition/

Prizes: $500 first place prize and two $150 runners-up prizes

Entry: Free

Word Length: 500-650

Closing Date: August 31, 201

Call for travel and outdoor book ideas

Punk Publishing is looking for submissions of book-length manuscripts on travel, outdoors or ‘quirky’ topics. Details HERE:

http://www.punkpublishing.co.uk/submissions.html

50 travel writing markets for $4.95

[Note from Wendy: Gary McLean just sent this to me. Great deal!]
I am currently updating all of our market lists and adding several new lists. Each market list in our new 2011 series will have around 50 markets and will cost only $4.95.

The first list in this series, “50 Travel Writing Markets”, is available now.

This list is different from my earlier travel market lists in that I have removed all in-flight magazines and magazines that focus mainly on one city or state.

These changes mean there is less crossover with our other market lists and resources.

And 18 of the writing markets in this new list were not in our previous list of travel writing markets.
To order this new market list and for further details please visit:

http://www.worldwidefreelance.com/writing-markets/market-lists/214-travel-writing-markets

Sincerely,
Gary McLaren, Editor
WorldwideFreelance.com

 

FREE contest for travel writers

Free contest by PEN TALS IT.A.CA Contest; deadline is 4/20/2011; 500 words max; prizes; details here: http://pentales.com/private/page/RYV3/20001

Major poetry contest – $52,000 fellowship to spend abroad

The Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship; 10/15/2010 deadline; open to U.S. poets; send 40 pages of poetry; prize is a $52,000 fellowship to send a year abroad. Info and details HERE:

http://www.amylowell.org/instructions.htm

High-paying magazine

Midwest Living pays $.80-$1/word for pieces on travel, food, home and garden. Plus expenses. Bi-monthly. Guidelines here:

http://www.midwestliving.com/midwest-living-writers-guidelines/

Travel articles wanted – paying market

GoNOMAD seeks excellent, entertaining, informative and unique travel articles, especially about:

Countries: Angola, Benin, Gambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, and Maldives. Lebanon, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Ghana,

Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia.

States: Delaware, Indiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas, DC, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Idaho.

http://www.gonomad.com/corp/writerguidelines.html