Lagos, Nigeria By The Numbers
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BY THE NUMBERS: Matador Goods editor Lola Akinmade breaks down her recent trip home. More »
You Got Your Pens Moving: Food Stories from the Matador Community
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: The results of our first "get your pen moving" excercise: a doomed iguana, mummified pigs' legs, and more food stories from the Matador community. More »
Reporters' Center Helps Citizen Journalists Find and Tell Great Stories
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: Reporters' Center: "The first rule of reporting is to make sure you come back alive." More »
10 Online Literary Magazines that Publish Great Travel Writing
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: Read great writing--for free. More »
Brandon Scott Gorrell Goes to Oakland
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NOTES FROM ROAD: Seattle writer Brandon Scott Gorrell goes through the Bay Area on a book tour, seeking authenticity via “ragers”, street preachers, and hipsters with expensive-looking digital cameras. More »
What Transformers 2 and Terminator Salvation Can Teach About Bad Storytelling
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: It’s no secret, Terminator Salvation and Transformers 2 are flimsy, mind-numbing movies. So what can be learned from their storytelling failures? More »
4 Travel Writing Contests You Should Enter Right Now
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: Boring contest postings aside, here are some places where your writing can earn a bit of cash. More »
Get Your Pen Moving: FOOD
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: New this week: we give you a prompt, you give us your writing, we publish the highlights. More »
Australia By the Numbers
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BY THE NUMBERS: MC Lars breaks down his recent tour of Australia by the numbers. More »
Florence Defaced By Graffiti, Declared Ugly and Depressing
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NOTES FROM ROAD: "Cops in the city center socialize in circles, looking as if they might break out a hackysack at any moment." More »
Advice for Writers: How to Handle Rejection
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: Nobody likes rejection, but it's possible to handle the inevitable more effectively. More »
Notes from the Road: To move under the Big Sky
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NOTES FROM ROAD: In our 2nd Montana Road Trip video, Josh ponders the what it is to travel under Montana's famous vault of Heaven More »
Kelsey Timmerman: So You Want to Be an Author?
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: "Everyone knew my desire to write, not because I was talking about it all of the time, but because I was doing it. " More »
7 Most Inspiring Travel Video Channels on YouTube
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VIDEO: Josh Johnson picks out the most inspiring travel video channels from YouTube. More »
Do You Need a Writing Degree to Be a Professional Writer?
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: Some things to consider before you take the plunge into a writing program. More »
Running Across Bhutan
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JOURNAL PAGES: These journal pages come from Tony Robinson-Smith, who recently returned from a trip where he, his wife, and ten students ran across the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. More »
Montana Road Trip: Heading to Yellowstone
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VIDEO: Join Josh and Dustin as they meander from Seattle to Yellowstone to Glacier and back. More »
Big Up Jenny Williams, Finalist for Story South
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: Matadorian Jenny Williams is writing award-winning fiction and travel writing. Here's what she has to say. More »
Ecuador, by the Numbers
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BY THE NUMBERS: "Hours spent traveling on buses: 168
Nighttime bus hijackings: 1" More »
Tips for Travel Video: How to Get Engaging Interviews
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TRAVEL WRITING, PHOTO, AND VIDEO: If you genuinely strive for an authentic connection, your subject just might open up and reveal some jewel about themselves that can be a powerful and moving theme for your video. More »
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