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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 …

Most of your travel experiences will never be recorded. Even if you had a GoPro running 24/7, it wouldn’t capture what matters most — your internal journey. A camera can’t …

Writing makes sense of travel experiences, but sometimes a narrative needs to be tidied up. Where does this leave the truth and when does a writer go too far?

Before you can get your stories published, you need to get them read by an editor. This is where your travel writing pitch comes in. We receive many thousands of …

The founding editor of Intrepid Times reflects on the universal writer’s experience of the rejection note, and how writers can use these (or the lack of them) to better their …

The following advice on how to tell a travel story comes from award-winning photographer and travel journalist B.A. Van Sise, whose new book Children of Grass was recently called “startlingly …