Podcasts about best women's travel writing

Blair Braverman is a nonfiction writer and dogsledder whose work has appeared in This American Life, The Atavist, Buzzfeed, Orion, The Best Women's Travel Writing and elsewhere. She is training for the Iditarod, a 1100-mile dogsled race across Alaska. Her first book, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, was released from Ecco/HarperCollins in July. This week on Writers Who Don't Write Blair speaks to us about writing while traveling the world as a dogsledder and the isolating factors of both, adapting a piece of longform writing for radio, how and why she structured her book the way she did, her process for some of her longform nonfiction journalism, and what it was like to write the story of her transgender partner.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Out of Our Minds is the second longest running poetry radio show in the United States and airs on Wednesday nights from 8-9pm on KKUP Cupertino 91.5fm. The show is hosted by Rachelle Escamilla. Angie Chuang is an author and educator based in Washington, D.C. She is the author of The Four Words for Home (Willow Books, 2014), a duel memoir about an Afghan immigrant family and her own Chinese American family. The book was the winner of the 2013 Willow Books Literature Awards Grand Prize in Prose, and has won an Independent Publishers Awards Bronze Medal for Multicultural Nonfiction. It has also been shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize for Writing and the International Rubery Award. Angie is an associate professor of journalism at American University School of Communication. Her literary nonfiction writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Asian American Literary Review, Vela, and several editions of The Best Women's Travel Writing.

Blair Braverman is a nonfiction writer and dogsledder whose work has appeared in This American Life, The Atavist, Buzzfeed, Orion, The Best Women's Travel Writing and many more. Currently, she is training for the Iditarod, a 1100-mile dogsled race across Alaska.   On this episode we learn how Blair got into dogsledding, behind the scenes of being a dogsledder and how she is training for the Iditarod.    This podcast is sponsored by Vestigo.co and produced by ForceMedia.me

Today we're talking about the value of stories in travel or life and why they matter to the individual and society. I want us to explore why travel matters and today's guest gives us the chance to do exactly that. Lavinia Spalding is the author of two books, With a Measure of Grace: Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant and Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal Writing Travel, which helps travelers find an authentic story and access tools to better chronicle their journeys as writers, bloggers, or storytellers. She's also the editor of the Best Women's Travel Writing collections and featured in a slew of publications including Gadling and the San Francisco magazine. I'm excited to talk to her today about what I mentioned today about stories and why they matter and how to look at them as something you can take home and share for the rest of your life, and why that matters. What We Cover: Why finding stories is important to personal growth. Being vulnerable to the world is the best way to let the best stories happen to you. Lavinia’s life-changing experience being shown around Florence by two Italian men. Travel is the best way to embrace the Other. Why it’s important to unplug and disconnect from your phone and computer when you travel or stay at hostels if you want to connect with other cultures and get the most growth from your experience. Explore Further: Lavinia's website Lavinia's book, Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal Writing Travel Music credit: Imogen Heap – Wait It Out (Artec Remix), Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static Become a Friend of the Show: Please subscribe and review! It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick gesture. We’d be grateful for a review. Leave one here. If you do, click here to let me know so I can personally thank you! Your Feedback If you have an idea for a podcast you would like to see or a question about an upcoming episode,email me! I’d love to hear from you. Thank you so much for your support! The post 89: The Value of Travel Stories with Lavinia Spalding appeared first on The Daily Travel Podcast.

My next guest is a kindred spirit of mine, mainly in the way that she likes to travel, but also because of her magazine journalism background. Abbie Kozolchyk is the beauty & travel editor of "Every Day with Rachael Ray," but I was dying to chat with her at Hostelling International in New York because she's been published six times in the Travelers' Tales "Best Women's Travel Writing" book series. That seriously has to be a record! So listen to her inspiring tales from abroad, because the way that Abbie describes her travels is like poetry... And if you've been inspired to take a shot at getting published in the "Best Travel Writing" or the "Best Women's Travel Writing" book series, then check out the submission guidelines at TravelersTales.com/guidelines, & also keep an eye out for the 2014 volumes in April & May on Amazon. You can also follow Abbie's adventures at AbbieKozolchyk.com & on Twitter at @AbbieKozolchyk. Good luck, I hope I get to read YOUR tales from the road soon!

There is one rule more important than any other in an fMRI experiment: no metal. But a stuck piercing makes aspiring neuroscientist Anna Wexler make a crucial choice -- end her career, or face possible serious injury? Anna Wexler is a documentary filmmaker and writer currently pursuing her PhD at MIT in the Science, Technology, and Society Program, where she is studying the social and ethical implications of neuroscience advancements. She graduated from MIT with two Bachelors of Science degrees, one in Brain and Cognitive Science and the other in Humanities and Science with a focus in Writing. She was selected as a 2007-2008 filmmaker-in-residence at WGBH to work on her debut feature documentary, UNORTHODOX, which follows three rebellious Orthodox Jewish high school teenagers through a transformative post-high school year in Israel. The film premiered in November 2013 at the Boston Jewish Film Festival and at DOC NYC. Anna's writing has been published in numerous outlets and anthologized in "Best Travel Writing, Vol. 9 (2012)" and "Best Women's Travel Writing 2011." Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: www.patreon.com/thestorycollider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices