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PART TRAVEL GUIDE, PART SOCIAL COMMENTARY, and part drunken cultural anthropology, 101 Places goes where no travel book has gone before. Join Matador’s crew of award winning travel journalists and ambassadors plus an all-star cast of party-crashers as we breach security, ride ill-recommended ferries, and hike miles into the wilderness to report on partying possibilities all over. Whether it’s calling out wankers at cliched Vegas blowouts or stumbling upon sudden transcendence off the map in Southern Brazil, 101 Places will give insightful, hilarious, and at times unexpectedly poignant portraits of place, travel, and culture around the world.
The book will also contain 25 original color photographs from leading surf, lifestyle, and travel photographers such as Chris Burkard (featured above). It will be published and distributed nationally in 2014.
Call for submissions
Writers / photographers: We are currently accepting submissions to be included in 101 Places. Each published entry or photo pays $60. There are no limits to how many entries you can submit. We welcome your entries + photography on original places and are also looking for specific entries and photography covering the following:
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New Orleans, LA Machu Picchu, Peru Dublin, Ireland Glasgow, Scotland Lisbon, Portugal Nice, France Vienna, Austria Melbourne, Australia Dalat, Vietnam Asheville, North Carolina Playa del Carmen, Mexico Seattle, Washington Tamarindo, Costa Rica Buñol, Spain [La Tomatina] India [Holi or Festival of Colors] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [Carnaval] Munich, Germany [Oktoberfest] Calgary [Calgary Stampede] Edinburgh [Hogmanay] Ibiza [summer season] New Orleans, Louisiana, USA [Mardi Gras] |
Buenos Aires, Argentina Montevideo, Urugay Pucón, Chile Praia do Rosa, Brazil Bogotá, Colombia Jamaica Cuba Istanbul, Turkey South Africa Cairo Tangier Tanzania Morocco Sydney, Australia Seoul, South Korea Philippines India Tokyo, Japan Sahara The Appalachian Trail, Eastern US Panama City, Florida, USA [Spring Break] |
Entries should be 900 words and follow a specific format which includes:
1) Guide section: Location, Season/Event, Ideal Conditions, Lodging, “Ingestibles” (Approx 600-700 words)
2) First person narrative: Approx. 200-300 Words
101 Places Sample Entry- Montreal Quebec
All entries are due by January 15, 2013. Please use the form to submit below. Once you’ve submitted correctly, the form will be replaced with a completion message. If you’d like to submit multiple entries, please refresh the page and submit again.
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David Miller
David Miller is Senior Editor of Matador (winner of 2010 and 2011 Lowell Thomas awards for travel journalism) and Director of Curricula at MatadorU. Follow him @dahveed_miller.
What about Mykonos? It’s cray-cray over there.
I’ve seen Ibiza [summer season] but what about Menorca island? the paradise, could it be also considered?
Planning on submitting something about Nola, but how about Natchez, MS?
Are the entries due Jan 14th or 15th? There is a discrepancy in the dates listed above. Can we submit entries on places not included on this list?
What about san fermin Pamplona and carnival Canary Islands
Just to let you guys know – the phone number part of the form doesn’t deal well with international numbers. My phone number doesn’t fit the expected pattern, so I put most of it on the form and a note with the full number at the top of the submission. I really enjoyed writing this, I hope it’s to your liking!
I submitted a piece on Dublin, I hope you like it…If you do or if the deadline gets extended I think I could do one on Rome and Cape Town, unfortunately I had no time..thanks for the opportunity anyways!
Any chance the deadline was extended?
Hi Sherman…the deadline hasn’t been extended per se, but please feel free to write directly to editors at matadornetwork dot com.
Excellent!