GoNOMAD.com Announces More Cash Grants--Hurry, Deadline 11/15/05!

GoNOMAD.com, an alternative travel website based in South Deerfield, MA, has announced the third in a series of grants to help travel writers foster their craft.

Each quarter of 2005, the editorial team at GoNOMAD will review applications in the form of a one-page synopsis of where the author wants to go and what kind of a story they want to write. Writers are asked to provide a one-page list of their published travel stories, or links to stories posted on the web. The most promising of these synopses will be culled down to one lucky winner every three months, with four recipients in 2005 receiving the $500 cash award each.

"We've had a tremendous interest in this program since we began this in January, and we hope to continue to see interesting ideas that make it hard for us to decide the winner,' said GoNOMAD editor Max Hartshorne.

GoNOMAD.com will have the first right to publish the destination guides, and submissions are not limited to traditional travel writing. "We are open to publishing photo or video galleries or guides done as podcasts," said Hartshorne, one of the four judges for the awards.

Our first winner, David Atkinson, wrote about following the trail of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid in Bolivia. Then Kelly Westhoff, our 2nd winner, won with her proposal to write about a lonely seaside town in Uruguay.

"Every time we run this contest, I'm amazed at the breadth of ideas, and the sweep of places people want to write about. It is fun to be able to provide this little boost to make someone's trip happen, and we like publishing these unique articles on GoNOMAD. It's a great opportunity to break into the travel writing business, to get published and share your stories with the world," Hartshorne said.

Submit your one-page proposal to GoNOMAD.com, P.O. Box 4, South Deerfield, MA 01373 Email: travelawards at gonomad.com, or fax 413-665-5006. No phone calls please.

Deadline for the Third Travel award is November 15, 2005. The grant will be awarded on December 15, 2005.

Read our writer's guidelines:
http://www.gonomad.com/corp/writerguidelines.htm

For contest details:
http://www.gonomad.com/contest/contestrules.html


Max Hartshorne
Editor
GoNOMAD.com