Publishing travel essay

Reading before and after a trip—history, biography, anthropology, literature, newspapers, magazines and/or other travel writing—will help shake off false assumptions and open windows in your creative mind. But do be careful about how you work facts into your essay.

Instead, we opt for the news, views, and editorial type articles that discuss the nature of travel – and everything that comes along with it. Inevitably, this means I must reject many of the hopeful writers that send in their work. Luckily, there are a plethora of other travel magazines that ARE interested in these types of travel writing.

19 Websites and Magazines That Want to Publish Your Personal Essay 1 Boston Globe. 2 Extra Crispy. 3 Dame Magazine. 4 The Christian Science Monitor. 5 Kveller. 6 The Sun Magazine. 7 New Statesman. 8 The New York Times. 9 Creative Nonfiction Magazine. 10 Slate. More items...

In my essay “Alone in Amsterdam,” in the literary journal Fourth Genre, I set out to write a “cityscape” anchored by famous works of art, but it was reading the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo and the poignant Diary of Anne Frank that helped me catch the thread of meaning I was after.