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:
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Traveler’s Tales – paying anthology – multiple contests/anthologies
Details on multiple contests and anthologies HERE:
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
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:
50 travel writing markets for $4.95
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.
To order this new market list and for further details please visit:
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:
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.