http://www.travelwritersnews.com For the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:49:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_2766" align="alignleft" width="157" caption="Gayle Keck"][/caption] Bay Area cuisine and travel writer Gayle Keck is interviewed on Rolf Potts' Vagabonding. How did she get started? Biggest challenges? Advice? Gayle also writes at Been There, Ate That. http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/gayle-keck-interviewed-on-vagabonding/ From the occasional editor of Travel Writers News, me, Laurie McAndish King: This photo I took of a frog in Mendocino is a finalist in Smithsonian magazine's 7th annual photo contest. Who'd have guessed? I'm so excited! There were 60,000 contest entries from all around the world, and mine is one ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/im-a-smithsonian-finalist/ From Stephanie Elizondo Griest: First, I recently started a little blogito called Around the Blog — aroundthebloc.wordpress.com — about traveling, writing, books, and combos thereof. Please take a look! I've also just released my first anthology, Best Women's Travel Writing 2010, which features essays by 27 far-flung correspondents. It should be landing ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/from-stephanie-elizondo-griest/ [caption id="attachment_2731" align="alignleft" width="110" caption="Kelly Hayes-Raitt"][/caption] Kelly Hayes-Raitt explains below why she enters writing competitions. Wow; I can't wait to read her book: In my preparation for a search for an agent, I started sending out chapters of my nearly complete book to various contests.  My book (tentatively titled Keeping the Faith:  ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/going-for-the-gold-writing-competitions/ [caption id="attachment_2734" align="alignleft" width="165" caption="Anne Sigmon"][/caption] Check out Jungle Pants, the beautiful new website just launched by Bay Area adventurer and travel writer Anne Sigmon. http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/jungle-pants/ BootsnAll is looking for for travel writers. Apply by March 15: We’re excited to launch the BootsnAll Travel Writer platform — a partnership with passionate travel writers to create expert-driven content on your favorite destinations and topics. BootsnAll Travel Writer Current Opportunities: * Destinations: Amsterdam, Australia, France, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Las Vegas, London, ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/travel_writing_101/markets_for_travel_writing/bootsnall-is-looking-for-passionate-travel-experts-for-new-bootsnall-travel-writer-platform/ From TravelersTales.com Winners of the Fourth Annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year were announced March 1, 2010 on BestTravelWriting.com by the editors of Travelers' Tales. Grand Prize winner Tawni Vee Waters collected $1,000 for "The Ashes of San Miguel," her haunting story about death and its effect ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/winners-announced-in-the-fourth-annual-solas-awards/ From our friends on California's central coast: Central Coast, CA: Travelers hungry for the greatest diversity of experiences now have an appetizing resource to feast upon with the new 2010 edition of the California Central Coast Visitors Guide.  Available online at www.CentralCoast-Tourism.com or free hard copy requests may be made via ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/central-coast-visitors-guide/ A thoughtful article on a timely topic: By DAVID POGUE Published in the New York Times on February 25, 2010 In the March issue of Popular Photography magazine, the editor's note, by Miriam Leuchter, is called "What Is a Photograph?" You'd think that, after 73 years, a magazine called Popular Photography would have figured ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/photoshop-and-photography-when-is-it-real/ Saturday, February 20, 2010 ~ Berkeley, California A one-day workshop with Constance Hale, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Are you a writer, editor, or copyeditor interested in being a freelance editor for magazines and nonfiction books? This workshop covers the role of freelance editors in the publishing world. Topics include understanding the mission ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/events/classes_salons_workshops_etc/fundamentals-of-freelance-editing/