In 2021, a budding travel writer called Anna Richards submitted a couple of stories to Intrepid Times; she wrote about penguins in Chile, and as well as a frightening mugging. …
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Writer’s block is the demon writers point to as the reason they can’t get words on a page. But what if writer’s block doesn’t actually exist? What if the reason …
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A small village in Greater Poland is home to two horses, one store, and an old man who sits in front of it with a beer close at hand, ready …
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Every day when submissions are open, dozens of travel stories or pitches land in the Intrepid Times inbox. While the quality of course varies, most of these submissions are from …
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Paul Theroux called Thomas Swick ‘the ideal travel writer,’ but he’s the first to admit he hasn’t always been the ideal traveler. He moved to Poland in the late 1970s …
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Paul Theroux probably never took a travel writing course. As far as I know, neither did Chatwin. Or Thubron. But Anthony Bourdain did. Not travel writing, as such, but he …
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Dubai is associated variously with dizzying luxury, superficial excess, and, recently, geopolitical disruption. According to Paris Norriss, who has lived in the city for a decade and stars in the …
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The Travel Writing Podcast
James Merriman Visited 160 Countries – Before He Realized That Wasn’t the Point of Travel
Some view travel as a competitive sport, tallying up countries like points on a board. James Merriman began his travel life like this, relentlessly collecting passport stamps for years. He …
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Updated July 2026 It’s paradoxical that the more accessible travel becomes, the more travel writing is needed, and the less it seems to be nurtured. When anyone can take a …
