Tag: great travel writing
If you want to induce nausea in me immediately, you will say two little words: women’s magazines. I wrote for women’s magazines for several years, and, with a couple …
The other day, my good friend Diana sent me an email with this subject line: Did I Kill Gourmet Magazine? The link was from the Wall Street Journal, and …
Talk about a big week: back in 2008, in one seven day stretch, travel writer Michele Bigley was assigned to write a guidebook to Kauai, Hawaii. She also learned …
Each month, Perceptive Travel, the webzine, brings you compelling travel narratives by some of the best writers in the business. But what’s the story behind that story? I wanted …
This past Saturday, I participated in a TBEX panel about travel writing with a group of guys that are among my personal writing heroes. Jim Benning, David Farley, Don …
Today, we at Perceptive Travel blog got the news that we’re finalists in the journal Creative Nonfiction’s narrative blog contest. Check out the story that was submitted, Antonia’s How …
It is too often the case that those interested in travel writing neglect fiction. Yet we all claim to uphold the definition that travel writing is about “character of …