How to power up your sentences with strong verbs

Jen Stevens shares how to make your writing more powerful and get editors’ attention.

Featured Publication: Literary Traveler

Bonnie Caton tells us about this week’s featured publication, Literary Traveler, an online subscription magazine. This publication is looking for articles about a literary person or place with an environmentally friendly message.

How One Reader Scored Two Paid Vacations and 41 Bylines: Interview with AWAI Member Sandra Kennedy

BONNIE: Hi Sandra. I understand you’ve turned your travels into paid vacations. Can you tell us a little bit more about how you got started and how, specifically, you went from sitting in a chair at the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop to sitting in an airplane seat on your way to an all-expenses-paid trip to […]

Avoiding Hotel Surcharges and Nine Odd Uses for Toothpaste

Hotels love to add surcharges onto every long-distance call you make from your room. And I love to sneakily avoid them. Here’s how: When you’ve got more than one long-distance call to make from your hotel room, don’t hang up between calls. Instead, wait for the person on the other end of the line to […]

FEATURED PUBLICATION: Matador Travel

Matador Travel is a hub of nine different e-zines wrapped into one online travel community. Each separate arm of the site has its own writer’s guidelines and each is on the lookout for fresh content. There’s a travel article style for everyone here, from trip ideas to traveling and studying abroad, travel tips, nightlife, travel […]

FEATURED PUBLICATION: Washingtonian Magazine

Washingtonian Magazine’s no-nonsense, no-fluff style wins over the hearts of 150,000 highly educated, well-paid readers each month. It’s been around since 1965, and ever under the same editor, Jack Limpert. Through over 40 years of publication, the magazine brings Washington-area residents and visitors meaty articles about art, culture, food and dining, travel, news, politics, jobs, […]

A Reader’s Question: 100 Articles in 7 Months

Roy Stevenson has published more than 100 articles in the 7 months since attending our workshop. And it seems he’s creating quite a stir among our readers.

How Writing Free Articles Can Help the Beginning Freelance Writer

I’ve just finished an analysis of the 93 articles I’ve had accepted for publication, and I found something very interesting. I noticed that a total of 64 (or 69%) are paid articles, while the remaining 29 are gratis. At first glance, the high number of freebies may look dismal. In fact, they’ve paid off in […]

FEATURED PUBLICATION: MyMidwest Magazine

by Roberta Beach Jacobson in Karpathos, Greece MyMidwest Magazine (http://www.mymidwestmagazine.com) is the lively and colorful bi-monthly in-flight magazine for Midwest Airlines. Most of what you find in its 116 pages is written by freelancers, which means your story stands a good chance of getting in. That said, be sure that any travel story you propose […]

How to Create a Sacred Bond with Editors

Wouldn’t it be great if you had a cadre of editors who accept your articles for every one of their issues? Realistically, though, freelance writing isn’t always that stable. However, you can settle for second best — getting your work into their magazines as frequently as possible. Since September 1, 2007, I’ve had over 70 […]