Pen, this is your chance
You document your trips by heart, you fill notebooks and notebooks with your adventures, you invest in anecdotes that you later scribble absentmindedly in airports and you immerse yourself in the culture of the destinations you visit. The travel writing bug runs through your veins and it is time to shape it and let it out.
The travel insurance company World Nomads look for three trainee travel writers to grant them a scholarship what will get them through two weeks in Argentina, between May 7 and 21, training and touring the country to later count it.
Thus, the scholarship includes a four day workshop by travel writer and contributor to The New York Times Tim Neville , who will be in charge of teaching the winners to looking for good stories will help them improve their writing skills and will give you a series of clues to better understand the world of travel writing.
Four days of training and ten to explore the country
The moment to put what has been learned into practice will come in the final ten days of the experience, when the scholarship holders will explore for six days one of the Argentine regions from the hand of the Say Hueque travel company.
In the remaining four you can visit the destination they choose, at their own pace, and with 1,000 dollars (about 815 euros) with which to meet their expenses.
The scholarship covers all these aspects, as well as travel insurance and return tickets from your airport to Buenos Aires.
The deadline for submitting your application is February 28th. By then you should have written a story of 2,500 characters with one of the following approaches: 'Meeting local people', 'The last thing I expected' or 'A decision that pushed me to the limit'.
In addition, in the registration form you must explain in a short text why you deserve to win this scholarship and what it would mean to you. And yes, you have to do it in English.
The jury, which will announce its verdict next April 4, will be composed of Tim Neville himself, by Norie Quintos, National Geographic editor; and the freelance travel journalist Charukesi Ramadurai.
The three of them are on a mission to select three aspiring writers with a strong adventurous spirit and an undeniable passion for travel.
For it, They will value the descriptive ability shown in the texts, a structured narrative, a good eye for detail, his ability to discover good stories and tell them and its grammatical and spelling correction. By the way, leave out the clichés, they are not well seen.
This contest is open to people of any nationality, over 18 years of age, who are not professional writers and with a high level of written English.
Immerse yourself in the local culture, a 'must'