It was so much fun being interviewed by the wonderful Nathaniel Boyle of the Daily Travel Podcast about everything from ice cream trucks to Italian men to the value of telling travel stories! You can listen here: http://dailytravelpodcast.com/89-the-value-of-travel-stories-with-lavinia-spalding/
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Travel writer extraordinaire Erin Van Rheenan interviewed me about editing The Best Women's Travel Writing for Brevity. This was extra fun for me, because Brevity is one of my favorite lit mags. It was such a pleasure talking to Erin about what it felt like . . .
I really enjoyed my conversation with author Mag Dimond on her new podcast, Bowing to Elephants. We covered all kinds of interesting subjects, starting with our shared name (thought she goes by Mag, she's a Lavinia, too) and meandering to journaling, travel . . .
I spent some time talking with Jeremy Bassetti from the Travel Writing World podcast the other day. We discussed the importance and value of reading travel accounts written by women, the art of editing an anthology, and getting lost in travel and in writing. . . .
Erin Van Rheenen interviewed me about The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12, for a craft essay in one of my favorite literary magazines, Brevity. When editor Lavinia Spalding started reading submissions for Volume 12 of The Best Women’s Travel Writing . . .