Kick start your travel writing career by going on assignment to Istanbul, Turkey. After touching base with your travel writing mentor, you will hit the road for 7 days reviewing and writing for The Rough Guide to Istanbul for your chance to get published. You will also have the chance to satisfy your adventure cravings on a 12 day Turkish Delight tour, biking, hiking and kayaking your way through Turkey with BikeHike Adventures.
Your assignment brief
- You’ll fly to Istanbul from your country of residence. You need to be available between June 7th – 28th, 2011 to participate on the assignment
- After spending two days learning the ropes with mentor Terry Richardson, you will research, review and update essential travel info for ‘The Rough Guide to Istanbul’, including accommodation, bars restaurants, entertainment, shopping, tours, activities and transport, as well as searching out those local secrets that travellers want to read about.
- Your mentor will be at hand to offer guidance, but essentially this is your assignment; you will travel on your own for this part of the journey so you must be comfortable travelling solo. Terry will assign you a specific area based on your travel experience.
- Your work will feature in the new edition of ‘The Rough Guide to Istanbul’, placing your foot firmly in the door of the elusive travel writing industry!
Important Dates:
March 28 Competition closes (2.00pm, Australian Eastern Daylight Time)
April 28 Winner announced
June 7 Winner Arrive Istanbul
June 8-19 Turkish Delight Tour with BikeHike Adventures
June 20-21 Meet your mentor Terry Richardson, shadow for 2 days
June 22-25 Solo assignment
June 26-27 Meet with Terry to review work etc.
June 28 Depart
Aug 15 Rough Guides content deadline
For more information and an application, visit: http://journals.worldnomads.com/scholarships/story/67204/Worldwide/Travel-Writing-Scholarship-2011-Applications-Open!?utm_source=Scholarship+Universitiesutm_campaign=27783d933a-Travel+Writing+Scholarship+2011utm_medium=email