Call for Travel Writing Entries:

Do you love to travel?
Do you love to write about travel?
Do you fall into any of the following categories?

• Solo traveler
• Female traveler
• LGBT traveler/couple
• Couple with small children
• Adventure seeker
• Culture seeker

If so, I might have a project for you! I'm starting a very small, low-key website focused on international travel writing and sample itineraries for "alternative" travelers. From my experience, the mainstream guides simply do not provide sufficient information for those of us in the above categories (not that they don't try, but just seem to miss the mark in some respects often leaving us with insufficient information). My goal is to create a source of information and creative outlets for us, the writers, and an audience of folks planning an upcoming trip or simply curious about a destination.

For now the website will contain:

• Travel accounts: journal style entries focused on the unique experience of places visited. These should be extremely honest and more about the way the experience affected you long term than about the museums, etc. If your trip was amazing because you met someone interesting in a bar, that should be the focus of the entry. If your trip was horrible because you were ill-prepared, made a bad decision, took the wrong companion or were met with hostility, write about that.
• Itineraries: your actual itinerary with blurbs suggesting or not (list where you slept/ate/visited and if it was worth it) and/or suggested itineraries of what you wish you'd done or wish you'd have had time for.
• Photos: submit your own photos to accompany your writing. You'll be credited for all of the above.

Sorry this doesn't pay a cent, because I'll be paying for the website myself and likely not making any money off it (though I will allow advertising on the site in hopes of making up the cost of web publishing). This is supposed to be fun and informative, not a money maker (though that would be cool too!).
There's no deadline right now, I'm just trying to get a sense of interest in participating. At the moment I'm designing the site slowly and gathering articles. Hopefully I'll have enough to publish soon.
Please email thenovelnomad@gmail.com if you're interested in participating.