Any woman whose passport has been stamped a few times knows the surest method of keeping her travel fire alive: by reading and telling stories from the road, passing them along like a torch in a relay race.
From Travelers’ Tales comes The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World—the eighth collection in the annual best-selling, award-winning series that invites readers to ride shotgun alongside intrepid female nomads as they travel the world to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The stories in this year’s edition are as diverse as the geographic locations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling from a woman’s perspective aimed at making readers laugh, weep, wish they were there, or be glad they weren’t.
In The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8, readers will:
Every traveling foodie knows that travel and food go together like…well…travel and food. And I’m delighted to announce that the wonderful travel editor of Every Day with Rachael Ray knows it too! The Best Women’s Travel Writing...
Although I’ve spent the better part of November with my face in my laptop, my head has been in hundreds of places, from Brazil to Ethiopia to Indonesia. My job this month is to read story submissions for The Best Women’s Travel...
After leaving the corporate world, Jacqueline Luckett took a creative writing class on a dare, from herself, and began writing short stories and poetry and never looked back. Jacqueline is the author of two novels, Searching for Tina...
Layne Mosler is a writer who ate and danced tango in Buenos Aires for nearly four years before moving to New York City to drive a taxi. She’s currently living in Berlin and writing Driving Hungry, a book based on her Taxi Gourmet blog...
My new collection, The Best Women’s Travel Writing Volume 8, is finally out! Tuesday night we had our first reading, hosted by the San Francisco Travel Lit and Lectures Series at Books, Inc. on Chestnut Street in San Francisco. It was...
I’m taking a break from posting interviews with the contributors of The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011 to share some of my own news. It’s been a crazy couple of months! First, I’ve just about wrapped up...