Travel Publications

Travelers’ Tales is looking for personal, nonfiction stories and anecdotes-funny, illuminating, adventurous, frightening, or grim. Stories should reflect that unique alchemy that occurs when you enter unfamiliar territory and begin to see the world differently as a result. Travelers’ Tales offers a $100 honorarium for stories of any length.

Ride Texas is an award-winning travel magazine for motorcyclists. Our focus is regional and includes Texas and the neighborhood, but we will consider travel topics outside of this area. We include all types of motorcycles on back roads, highways and dual-sport rides. Submissions should include a short summary of your articleenough to explain your concept and provide an idea of your writing style. Your summary should illustrate your writing style and approach to the subject. RTM pays rates competitive with national motorcycle magazines.

ROAD & TRAVEL Magazine is an online, in-market, consumer magazine specializing in automotive, travel, and personal safety topics. Feature articles should be approximately 1000-1200 words. Columns approximately 500 words. Assigned articles range from byline only up to $100 for automotive reviews only.

Sunset is Western America’s largest-circulation regional magazine, with monthly issues devoted to four subject areas: travel and recreation; garden and outdoor living; food and entertaining; home design, remodeling, and projects. The magazine is largely staff written; its largest freelance need is in travel, and more for shorter items and one- or two- page stories than features. The editors are looking for “take-action” travel ideas within our coverage area that will appeal to a large, general interest audience (70 percent women) that is time challenged, appreciates value, and is more likely to live in the suburbs than San Francisco, Seattle, or Los Angeles. Payment is up to $1/word upon acceptance.

Tales To Go delivers mobile, digital collection of travel stories. The digital publication delivers four inspiring, transformative travel stories every month. Word length: up to 3K words. Payment: $50/story.

Texas Highway, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages travel within the state and tells the Texas story to readers around the world. Subjects should focus on things to do or places to see in Texas. Include historical, cultural, and geographic aspects if appropriate. Length will vary, but will generally be 1,200 to 1,800 words. Texas Highways pays 50 cents per word and buys first North American serial rights.

We buy all rights to articles and will not purchase a piece that has been published elsewhere. A brief resume should accompany both articles and proposals. No submission should exceed 1,500 words. Backpage essays should be between 1,200 and 1,400 words.

For more than half a century, Trailer Life magazine has been providing enthusiasts with travel and technical information to enhance their enjoyment of the RV lifestyle. The primary prerequisite for all submitted material is that it be RV oriented and written with an RV focus for our specialized audience. Pays up to $700/article.

Transitions Abroad is an inspirational yet practical planning guide for meaningful cultural immersion travel, work, study, living and volunteering abroad. Payment is on acceptance, ranging from $50 to $150 (the average payment is $100) for an article in the 1000-2000 word range.

Perceptive Travel is an online travel magazine that is home to interesting and award-winning narrative stories from some of the best travel writers on the planet. This web magazine is now published monthly, with three or four feature articles per issue, plus rotating travel-related book reviews and world music reviews. Payment is $100 per article.