Travel Writers Online

Travels with Charley John Steinbeck’s travel writing, from 1962, called Travels with Charley: In Search of America has always made me want to publish a travel journal. Naturally, it was the name that caught my attention initially, Charley, Charlie, but then the sense of quest.  You could search forever.  The travelling need never end.  In 2003 I proposed this title as a research project to my Masters supervisors at Newcastle University: In Search of French America.  But you might not find it, they said.  Twenty years on and I realise they knew something about English-speaking cultures.  It is impossible to find French in the UK, in the US, Australia, New Zealand, or in the Anglophone communities of India and South Africa.   Why is French so well-hidden?   In Britain there is no free French-language TV channel.  No French newspapers sit on the racks in W H Smith; Le Monde is only stocked in major airport newsagents.  That's be...

Blogging as a Discovery Instrument  Do researchers discover destination knowledge or create it?  This question has been at the heart of our discussions over the last five years and gradually, through conferences and meetings, travel writing has emerged as both a method of inquiry for us in tourism and area studies and as a professional practice for the synthesis of new knowledge, thanks, often, to the use of narrative.  This travel writing blog is our discovery instrument and our research practice that will yield new knowledge on place, destination image, visitor practices and tourism knowledge management. We have been teaching this on Masters programmes for Travel Writers and Content Authors across Europe and the UK.  Routledge, Taylor & Francis In 2023 we published our ideas on literary travel writing with Routledge, Taylor & Francis, as a textbook and research monograph. To help lecturers to integrate this book into their teaching, learning and assessment ...

Over Sunday and Monday 26   and 27   July 2020 the three leaf feuilleton was conceived for literary travel writers to contribute their work to ongoing blogs like Travel Writers Online. It is a new form to publish the literary travel writing whilst fresh, and hopefully encourages readers back to the website to follow the narrative.  Our first one is published here  https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2022/07/deja-vu.html Travel Writers Online at Google Blogger Blogspot

Travel Writers Online Magazine ISSN 2753-7803 is published as a weblog mainly for writers of narrative non-fiction and for educators who want to integrate this writing into their teaching and research. Our particular specialisms, as the name suggests, are: literary travel writing, blogging about place, and dialogue journaling during research. This all emerged from teaching travel writers and supervising at PhD level in higher education with the aim of exploring ideas of value and the literary in writing as a research inquiry. From this research we ran our first summer school for writers in June 2020, during the first lockdown, and one publication came from that. It is a portable vade mecum listing the Methods for Travel Writers . This is now available as an eBook on all main online stores and in 2022 was converted into a small paperback version through Amazon Kindle Direct.  Over our first two years, I also worked with Jasna through the EU’s ERASMUS + mobility initiative for unive...