A newsletter aimed at travel writers that demystifies the travel media industry through editor and writer interviews, pitching advice, and webinars. Recent issues cover a commissioning editor's guidance on pitching low-season travel stories and a writer's career advice.
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A personal blog-style newsletter mixing first-person travel writing and photography from rural Vietnam with detailed investigations of Chinese porcelain bought at auction and from collectors. Readers get close observation and worked examples of how to test an attribution using marks, measurements, magnification and UV light.
A daily pilgrim's journal written from the Hutsul Carpathians in Ukraine, mixing personal reflection, mountain landscape and local folk custom. Readers get short, contemplative entries that tie the seasons, the old and new church calendars and village lore to the writer's walk.
A personal blog of long-form essays linking travel, literature, history and natural history, with subjects ranging from the Epic of Gilgamesh to black walnut trees and medieval itinerary maps. Readers get reflective, well-researched writing that treats places and texts together.
A personal essay newsletter by a writer who reflects introspectively on travel moments and everyday life, from cultural misunderstandings abroad to midlife style. It also promotes the author's writing classes on the braided essay.
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