Write for us (travel love way)

Got travel story stuck in your head that won’t let you sleep Good because that’s exactly the kind of writer we’re after.

Honestly, this website exists because we got sick of reading the same recycled “Top 10 Things To Do In Paris” lists, the ones. Where you can just tell nobody behind the keyboard has actually been there. Real travel writing is rare. The kind where you can practically feel the heat on your skin, or the exhaustion of standing on a platform after missing your train by four minutes. We want more of that on this site, but we can’t write every corner of the world ourselves. So we need you.

Maybe you have backpacked through some country most people couldn’t point to on a map Maybe you road tripped. somewhere on a total whim last summer.  Maybe you just have very strong opinion about the best street food stall in your hometown. And nobody in your life wants to hear about it anymore.  If any of that sounds like you send us an email.

You don’t need years of published bylines to pitch us some of our favorite pieces came from people. who’d never written for a publication in their life.they just had a story, and the patience to sit with it until it read well.what we care about is. Whether you actually went actually did the thing and can put a reader right there next to you when they read it.

Why Write For Us,

We’re a small team, not some content mill pumping out twenty articles a day. Somebody here actually reads every submission that comes in, and yeah, we get genuinely excited when a good one lands. A few things that come with writing for us:

Your name goes on it and stays there full author credit a short bio, and a link back to your own site or social profile useful if you’re building a portfolio trying to grow a following of your own.

You’re writing for people who are actually going somewhere not casual scrollers killing five minutes on their phone. Our readers are mid-planning a trip, comparing options, trying to figure out if a place is worth the money and the flight.

Editing here doesn’t mean rewriting.we might tighten a paragraph  ask you a question about something that’s unclear but we’re not in the business of flattening your voice into something that sounds like everyone else’s blog If your writing has some personality to it we want that to survive the edit.

There’s no pay to publish scheme here and no bot deciding whether your pitch is good enough.a real person reads it.

And once something’s live, we actually push it out — social channels, the newsletter, wherever it fits. We’d rather spend our energy getting fifteen good articles in front of people than quietly publishing fifty average ones nobody ever finds.

What We’re Looking For,

We run a pretty wide range of travel content, but there are a few types of pieces we’re always happy to see land in the inbox:

Destination guides that skip past the obvious stuff — not the landmark everyone already knows about, but the coffee shop down the side street, the trail locals actually use, the museum that’s always empty for no good reason.

Personal stories. The trip that fell apart halfway through. The stranger who rewrote your whole itinerary over one conversation. The moment right before you almost didn’t get on the plane.

Practical useful advice budgeting a trip packing smarter visa headaches working remotely on the road figuring out a bus system in a language you don’t speak.

Food and culture writing that actually explains why a dish matters to the people who make it not just what it tasted like to you.

Solo travel tips especially from women first timers anyone navigating a destination with disability since that advice tend to be thinner on the ground than it should be.

Slower, lower-impact travel — staying put longer, spending money at places actually run by locals instead of the fifth branch of some hotel chain.

None of that fitting what you had in mind? Pitch it anyway. Honestly some of our best articles came from writers who ignored this list completely.

If there’s one thing that ties good submission together it’s specificity Anybody can write”the mountains were beautiful What actually sticks with a reader is the exact second the trail turned from dirt to gravel the name of the guy running the tea stall who wouldn’t stop asking about your family back home Details like that are usually what separates a piece someone skim for ten seconds from one they bookmark.

What We’re Not Looking For,

We get a lot of drafts that read like they were stitched together from five other blog posts about the same city — with zero actual travel behind them. Readers can tell. So can we. A short list of things we pass on:

Generic listicles with no personal insight in them at all (“15 Best Beaches In Thailand,” clearly written by someone who has never left their apartment). Thinly disguised ads for a hotel chain, a tour company, or some product. Anything already published elsewhere, even under a different title on your own blog. Writing that exists mainly to sneak in backlinks rather than actually help whoever’s reading it.

Submission Guidelines,

Here’s what we’re looking for when you send something over

Length most articles land somewhere between 1,200 and 2,000 words We’re flexible if a story genuinely ne more room less.

Format  a Google Doc link works a plain Word file. Please no PDFs They’re miserable to edit or leave comment on.

Images — if you’ve got your own original photos from the trip, send them along. We’ll almost always pick real photography over stock images, mostly because it tells us the writer actually went somewhere.

Originality — the piece needs to be unpublished and written specifically for us. We do check, so please don’t send us something already sitting live somewhere else under a slightly different headline.

Bio two or three sentences about yourself plus one link to a site or social profile.Keep it short.We’re not publishing a paragraph of link at the bottom of the page.

As for structure we’re not fussy about a strict outline but a piece broken into clear sections tends to read better online than one long unbroken wall of text If your story naturally splits into different stops on a trip, or a handful of separate tips, go ahead and format it that way before sending it over — saves us a round of back-and-forth later.

And tone-wise, write it the way you’d tell a friend about the trip over coffee, not like you’re filing a report for work. A bit of humor, some honesty about what went wrong, your actual opinions — all of that is welcome. We’d rather read “the hostel wifi was useless and the shower only had one setting: freezing” than a polished sentence that ends up saying nothing at all.

How To Pitch,

You don’t have to send finished draft if you’re not sure it’s the right fit yet short pitch is fine too.Just let us know:

What the piece is about and roughly the angle you’re taking with it

Why you’re the one to write it have you actually been there yourself?

A link to something you’ve written before if you’ve got one lying around

Send it to the email listed on our Contact page subject line “Write For Us [Your Topic].” That subject line genuinely matters.It’s the difference between your pitch getting sorted quickly and it drowning somewhere between newsletter replies and spam.

We usually get back to people within a week sometimes a bit longer if it’s a busy travel season.If two weeks go by and you haven’t heard anything a polite nudge is totally fine we won’t be annoyed.

One Last Thing,

We know inboxes like ours get flooded with pitches from people who’ve never really gone anywhere, just looking for a byline to pad a portfolio somewhere. If that’s not you, if you’ve actually got a story worth telling, we want to read it.

We also know that hitting send on something you wrote can feel scarier than the trip itself did. So if there’s a draft sitting on your laptop right now that you’re not sure is good enough — send it anyway. Worst case we suggest a few edits different angle Best case, your story ends up in front of a few thousand people who were looking for exactly this kind of honest specific slightly rough around the edges travel writing.

Go on Pack the draft hit send.