5 years of Travelettes.net, 1,200 published posts, 16,000 comments, 65,000 Facebook fans, 100,000 monthly readers, 19,000 Instagram followers and 6,500 Twitter friends, but only 9 Travelettes.
We somehow feel that this number doesn’t suit us too well and would like to make our team complete with a 10th regular editor. Could it be you?
Of course we want to find the perfect new team member – a skilled writer and photographer, with insatiable wanderlust, and creative and enthusiastic about sharing her passion with others. That’s why we thought it would be a cool idea to turn this into a little competition.
All you have to do is send us a 300 word short-story and 5 of your best travel shots (taken BY you!) along with a decscription and photo of yourself to team@travelettes.net and include ’10th Travelette’ in the email subject. To make it a little more challenging we laid out three possible beginnings for your stories. Choose one from below and tell your story!
– “Swaying palm trees, the sound of ocean waves, the sun tickling my nose. Finally, I had found and reached a solemn place just for myself…”
– “This was it. It could not possibly get any worse. Maybe I should just pack my bags and head straight home on the first available flight…”
– “Although all my senses screamed loudly NOOOO, I just couldn’t give this opportunity a pass. This was one of these once-in a life time experiences I had hoped for…”
The basic requirements for our new team member are those of a guest contributor (competent writer, native level English, high quality DSLR photography). In addition we require our regular contributors to submit a minimum of 3 posts per month.
As so many of our readers are from the US, but so far no Travelette is, we would love our new member to be from and based in the US. This is however not a strict condition, so please still apply if you’re from somewhere else.
Please spread the word and most of all: APPLY NOW!
The closing date for this is Friday 31st October 2014! Send your text and pics to team@travelettes.net and include ’10th Travelette’ in the email subject.
photos by Kathi Kamleitner & Brian Shaw
This is a post by Kathi Kamleitner.
Kathi Kamleitner was a regular contributor at Travelettes from 2013 to 2019. Originally from Vienna, Austria, she packed her backpack to travel the world and lived in Denmark, Iceland and Berlin, before settling in Glasgow, Scotland. Kathi is always preparing her next trip – documenting her every step with her camera, pen and phone.
In 2016, Kathi founded Scotland travel blog WatchMeSee.com to share her love for her new home, hiking in the Scottish Highlands, island hopping and vegan food. Follow her adventures on Instagram @watchmesee!
This sounds a great opportunity to be a member of travelettes.
I love to adventure and travel more than anything around. 21 and very adventurous
Sounds like a great opportunity! Quick question - does the story have to be exactly 300 words? Thanks :)
hey marta, +- a little is fine I'd say. We're not gonna hit the word count, but it shouldn't be 500 or 200 :)
If it were next year and I did not have a job abroad that prevented me from the traveling life style I would appy asap!! As of now,next year I will be setting off on a journey bigger than this first one I have already begun! :) If there is more room in the futureI will definitely apply! I guess this time around isn't the right timing though! Darn! next time if there is one :)
~Lisa
I would LOVE to apply for this but the only question I have is that, I'm not totally sure (besides what you have listed) being a travelette means. Are those things that will be disclosed to the person who becomes the 10th travelette?
-Nic
hi nicole, it basically means that you would be the 10th regular contributor to travelettes.net and you will write three articles a month. all of us also contribute ideas to our social media channels (aka sharing interesting links with the group), seasonal editorial plans (atm. for example ideas for winter-themed posts) and take over the instagram account from time to time. if you have any more questions feel free to drop me a line at kathi@travelettes.net; if you want to apply please send you stuff to team@travelettes.net :)
Omg!!
That is awesome but 😐 I can't apply because I live in Canada ! I have my own blog where I post my adventurous story each week... well good luck to everyone !
feel free to apply anyways - we'll consider everyone :) cheers, kathi
Hello! I am very interested in entering, but I had a question about our travel shots. Do you want our submitted travel shots to be completely untouched or is slight retouching allowed? I sometimes like to play around with the contrasts and temperatures of my photos to make them even closer to the real colors I saw. Submitting the untouched versions is not a problem, I was just wondering.
Thanks so much, Travelettes!
feel free to edit your pics to enhance their appearance :) as long as it's still YOUR photography!
Oh wow this the dream really isn't it :) I'm very new at travel writing and would love nothing more that a career exploring this amazing world and all it's cultures so I'm going to apply anyway. My one question which might be a silly one but are you ladies all volunteers or are travelettes paid for their work?
hey casey, we're all doing this for the fun of it :) travelettes is hardly making any profit, which is flowing right back into web hosting and design! hope you'll still consider! cheers, kathi
Great opportunity!
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Hey Ladies!
I was so excited you posted this opportunity! I just sent you all an email with some stories and photos! I live in the states and travel every opportunity I get and it would be an honor to be a part of your team. I am looking forward to hearing back from you!
Peace & Love - Evan
Do the photos need to be directly related to your writing excerpt, or can they be photos of other trips unrelated to the story you tell?
YAY!! I've sent it! Though it may have accidentally come through twice as I forwarded the draft to myself.. the joys of multiple devices on travels haha. Thanks for opening the comp, girls! xxx
Hey! Sounds like an an amazing team, but I've got two questions:
1. Will our 300 word story be published or kept confidential? I'm wondering what kinds of details to omit or include (some details might be private).
2. What would you like our 5 best travel shots to reflect? Does it matter if we are in them? (i.e. my camera, but someone else takes the photo)
That's all for now, I'm looking forward to hearing back from you lovely ladies! :)
Hey Mina, we haven't actually spoken about this, but I think we'll publish at least the winner's story, maybe even our favourites. The aim is to write a story that would fit the website and could be published potentially.
The photos should be taken by you, not necessarily of you - we want to see your qualities as a photographer. They don't need to match the story.
Hope that helps ;) Kathi
Hi Kathi, i have a question about the 10th travelette.
I have my own travel blog (recently started btw) but many stories to share, so if i happen to luckily become the 10th of you, shall i only write for travelettes or i can i still writing on my blog too? I mean of course travelettes stories would be my priority and therefore exclusive.
Thank you in advance!
:)
hello gloria, you are of course more than welcome to still write on your own blog. but as you say correctly, the stories for travelettes have to be unique; you can't publish them in the same words on another blog. hope that helps! cheers, kathi
Great opportunity but no native english level and no US resident!
I feel a little bit discouraged, but..why not, I will apply anyway, just for FUN!
Hi there,
Do you have to add a description to all 5 travel photos or just a description of a photo of yourself? Just clarifying.
Thanks!
Nicole
Hello Nicole, we ask you for your best photographs to get an impression of your skills. Whether you want to tell us what it is you photographed or not, is up to you! If one of the pics is of you, let us know - but generally the photos should rather be taken BY you. Hope that helps! Cheers, Kathi
this would be amazing.....if only I could go on holiday 3 times a month to be able to do it!!
Awesome! I just saw this too late, maybe next time. Good luck picking the new member!
When will you announce the lucky gal? :)
Hey sera, we're currently reading all the applications - there were loads of good ones so it's hard to decide. Please bear with us :)
Completely understand, Kathi! Hope it's sort of fun for you, too, though! So...where do I mail the bribe?? ;)
Hi there! Have you chosen at 10th Travelette?