Here’s this month’s roundup of the best travel writing articles. Use these tips, inspiration, and information to keep your travel writing journey effective and inspired.

Find out who won this year’s Travel Stories Competition, and why the winning entry resonated with me to become the judges #1 pick.

The editors of Travelers’ Tales announce the winners of the Twelfth Annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year.

Robert Fear is the memoirist behind Fred’s Blog as was featured in an Author Interview last year. As well as being a travel writer he has been running a successful travel writing competition that is now in it’s 4th year. There are monthly prizes as well as overall prizes and it’s FREE TO ENTER … so what are you waiting for?

Here’s the entries from the sixteen finalists for the Bradt Travel Writing Competition so that you can read each one and use them as inspiration to hone your own travel writing skills. Better yet, use it as a research opportunity for your own submission to their 2018 travel writing competition!

Great read for Travel Writing Tips: Nat Geo Traveller (UK) recently announced their travel writing competition winners. The challenge was to write a focused piece of 500 words that captured the essence of a destination alongside National Geographic Traveller’s defining features: immersive travel and authentic storytelling.

Have you ever left a destination with the information you wished you’d known when you arrived? Something that was missing from your travel guide? Well now’s your chance to fill in the gaps. Let us know your Travel Guide Gap, by entering our 2017 Travel Writing Competition.

Bradt is looking for inspirational stories about travelling alone to include in a new collection of true-life tales publishing in…