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Here's Your Chance To Become A Travel Writer, And Visit Tokyo For Free

November 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM | by | Comment (1)

Do you enjoy writing about travel just as much as you love reading about other's adventures? Or perhaps you just dream of getting paid to travel. Whatever you motivation, Rough Guide, in conjunction with Hotels.com, WorldNomads.com and Intrepid Travel, might have the perfect, Tokyo-bound deal for you.

It's a travel writing scholarship of sorts, except you don't need to be a student. In order to win an all-expenses-paid, week-long trip to Tokyo for the purpose of updating the Rough Guides Tokyo book, along with travel writing instruction from Rough Guides writer Simon Richmond, you must be 18 and up, be a non-professional writer with a love of travel and a valid passport, and available to travel in February 2010.

Overseas, if you win, it won't be all sushi and geishas for you though:

The assignment will be to research, review and update essential travel info for the Tokyo section of The Rough Guide Japan, including accommodation, bars and restaurants, entertainment, shopping, tours, activities and transport, as well as searching out those local secrets that travelers want to read about.

To qualify for the contest, you'll first have to prove your writing ability by sending in a 500-word personal experiences essay on one of these themes:
· A Journey that Changed Lives · Responsible Travel · Adventure in an Unknown Culture · A Memorable Experience Involving Food in a Foreign Country

Sounds simple enough, right? It's perhaps the perfect first jump towards paid travel writing focusing on guidebooks, and if you win the week-long trip, you get to relax with an extra four days in Tokyo on your own, experiencing the "flavors of Tokyo." Knowing how expensive a city Tokyo is and how awesome the prize looks, we think you should start your first draft today.

Submit your entry to WorldNomads by December 21. The winner of the scholarship contest, along with the best entries received will be published on the WorldNomads.com website on January 8th, 2010.

Related Stories:
· New Contest for Wannabe Travel Writers Includes Assignment in Japan [World Nomads]
· Travel Writing coverage [Jaunted]

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2010 World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship

Thanks for featuring the 2010 World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship to Tokyo. We're really excited about this opportunity and can't wait to check out the applications! Cheers! Alicia World Nomads http://journals.worldnomads.com/scholarships/post/35985.aspx
alicianomad on November 20, 2009 at 12:19 AM #Permalink

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