Any budding travel writers?

[Lawlass]

If I were eligible I would be all over this.

Travel Writing Scholarship and ten-day road trip across the USA

The 3 scholarship recipients will receive:

• A 3-day custom travel writing course in San Francisco with mentor and Lonely Planet author John Vlahides
• A 10-day road trip across the U.S. (including a $3000 USD stipend to spend on food, transport, activities and accommodation)
• Round-trip airfare from your country of residence to San Francisco, CA
• Travel insurance for the duration of the trip from World Nomads

 

[wooley]

Would be very cool.. I'd give it a crack, I love writing, Buuuttt don't want to be a writer.

 

[get me outta here]

I wonder what the odds are maybe 20,000 to 1 ... oh wait there's 3 scholarships, well that brings it down a smidge. It reminds me of the jobs a few years ago to come to Aus and work and live in a resort or desert island or wherever it was, blog and get paid. How many applied for that? It's all great advertising.

 

[Lawlass]

I wonder what the odds are maybe 20,000 to 1 ... oh wait there's 3 scholarships, well that brings it down a smidge. It reminds me of the jobs a few years ago to come to Aus and work and live in a resort or desert island or wherever it was, blog and get paid. How many applied for that? It's all great advertising.

All competitions are advertising.

At least with this one, a decent budding travel writer (or three) will get the chance of a lifetime. It is not a **** prize.

World Nomads will get a bunch of free quality articles for their site (I haven't actually looked at the T&Cs, but no doubt one of them is you hand over the rights of the submitted articles to them)

 

[bPeteb]

Was ready to throw my hat in but we'll be in Iceland and Greenland when the road trip is on. I'll just have to keep going with my own blog