Geordie Torr: I generally don’t like magazine travel writing

Feb 192013

Geordie Torr is editor of Geographical Magazine. He is also a gentleman. When the Itinerant Writers Club became disillusioned with the finalists chosen in the Pure Travel Writing Competition 2012 (in conjunction with Geographical Magazine), I wrote to him with our complaints. I admit now that I could have been more diplomatic. With great patience he explained the rationale and system that was used to come up with the top essays. I was so impressed with his professionalism I cheekily asked him if he would be happy to be interviewed. To my surprise and delight, he agreed to answer some questions put to him by the club.

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Stop shilly-shallying: now’s the time to take that extended travel break!

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Jan 292013

“Gone fishing”

If you’ve had enough of austerity measures, harsh weather and relentless bad news, perhaps it’s time to take an extended career break. Or better still, give it all up to become a permanent traveller. Some people do just that, but there are plenty of reasons why others don’t… Continue reading »

IWC makes it into the Top 18 travel blogs you must read!

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Jan 272013

Top 18 blogs Wanderlust 2

I was delighted and surprised to receive the message from Wanderlust‘s editorial team that I had just made it into their most important, useful and entertaining blogs…

Thanks, Wanderlust, for the vote of confidence. And, more importantly, thanks to my Itinerant Writers Club cohorts for turning a small idea into an enjoyable, instructive and challenging experience. And for keeping me on my toes.

Top 18 blogs Wanderlust

Do you enjoy travelling? Do you enjoy writing? Do you want to meet like-minded people on the net to practise and talk about the art of travel writing? Pop over to the ITINERANT WRITERS CLUB forum to see what we’re up to. If you’d like to join the club, drop me a line with a link to your blog or examples of your writing.

Lyn Hughes: you should be thinking about hooks and angles

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Jun 262012

Lyn Hughes and her late husband, Paul Morrison, hatched the idea for Wanderlust magazine during a flight to South America in 1992. The first edition was launched from their flat later that year. Twenty years on, and many awards later, it is read by enthusiastic travellers all over the world, and its website is one of the biggest on-line resources for travellers. In 2007 and 2008 Lyn was Highly Commended as Publisher of the Year. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, she has also been lauded by the The Times as one of the “50 Most Influential People in Travel.” In the last year Lyn has added Unique Honeymoons and Take Better Travel Photos to the Wanderlust stable.
This month Lyn kindly agreed to take time out of her incredibly busy schedule as editor-in-chief to answer a few questions from the Itinerant Writers Club.

Sheldrake Press travel writing competition: Itinerant Writers Club sweeps the board

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Apr 182012

Back in February Sheldrake Press launched a writing competition…

“Sheldrake Press, publishers of the Wild Guides, are running a travel writing competition this month. Share one of your wild travel experiences with us for a chance to be published on our web-site and win a set of guides to Italy, Britain and Ireland. Whether you have discovered a new spot or returned to an old favourite, we’d like to hear about it.” Continue reading »

Jennifer Barclay: if I think something has promise I will advise an author at an early stage

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Apr 162012

Jennifer Barclay is commissioning editor for Summersdale, and a travel book author in her own right. Read Jennifer’s blog to find out a bit more about her life on a Greek island. Recently she agreed to answer some questions about book publishing from the Itinerant Writers Group.

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IWC Assignment 1: Thira by Helen Moat

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Mar 192012

Every month I select one of the stories from our Itinerant Writers Club assignments to highlight on the blog. Each story must be no more than 500 words and must follow a theme. The theme for February was, appropriately for our first assignment, “First steps”. Here Helen Moat tells us about her journey to Santorini.

The Writing Competition

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Dec 132011

WIN MEMBERSHIP OF THE ITINERANT WRITERS CLUB

The Itinerant Writers Club
The two main reasons for setting up this website were to meet other like-minded people and improve my writing skills. If you live in a house, flat, bungalow or palace – or anywhere in one place – the chances are somewhere not too far from you there will be a ‘creative writing group’ where you’ll be able to attend regular meetings and submit writing exercises for feedback. But what if you live on a boat, in a camper van or out of a backpack – or anywhere that never stays still? Where can you hone your skills in the company of other would-be writers if you’re a rolling stone?

And all for free.