Stand Out & Build Your Freelance Travel Writing Career in 2025
Modern Freelance Travel Writing: Pitch, Publish & Get Paid is a practical, step-by-step course designed to help you get your travel writing published in today’s competitive environment. Whether you want to write for glossy magazines, websites, blogs or digital publications, you’ll learn how the industry works, and how to stand out in an era of AI and ubiquitous copy.
What you’ll learn
- How to generate original, publishable travel story ideas that editors are looking for.
- How to craft compelling pitch emails that get noticed by magazine and website editors.
- A clear understanding of the modern travel writing industry and how to break into it.
- Where to find the right publications for your story—and how to tailor your pitch to each one.
- The key differences between travel blogs, print magazines, digital media, and branded content.
- How press trips, media perks, and payment work in professional travel writing.
- How to build your confidence, your bylines, and a long-term freelance travel writing career.
Course Content
- WATCH FIRST: Introduction and Resources to download –> 4 lectures • 16min.
- Where to Get Published –> 3 lectures • 13min.
- Coming Up With Story Ideas –> 2 lectures • 6min.
- Challenges & Opportunities in the Industry Today –> 4 lectures • 21min.
- Setting Up Your Trip & Selling Your Story –> 4 lectures • 17min.
- That’s a Wrap! –> 1 lecture • 1min.
Requirements
Modern Freelance Travel Writing: Pitch, Publish & Get Paid is a practical, step-by-step course designed to help you get your travel writing published in today’s competitive environment. Whether you want to write for glossy magazines, websites, blogs or digital publications, you’ll learn how the industry works, and how to stand out in an era of AI and ubiquitous copy.
With the rise of bloggers, influencers, and ChatGPT-generated content, breaking into travel journalism is even harder than before. But it’s still possible with the right approach and mindset, a clear strategy and ideas that are well-researched and timely.
No journalism experience required. All you need is a positive mindset, strong writing skills and a willingness to learn and practice.
What You’ll Learn in the Course
- How the travel writing industry works today
- How to tailor your ideas to different outlets
- How to come up with angles and publishable story ideas (and avoid the clichés)
- How to write winning emails that grab editors’ attention
- How to stand out, use your experience and write with authenticity
- The different genres of travel writing (and which to try first)
- How press trips and sponsored travel actually works (and it’s not how you think)
- How much you can expect to be paid, and how to negotiate better rates.
Who This Course Is For
- Writers who want to break into travel journalism
- Bloggers and creatives who want to get published in mainstream media
- Storytellers and anyone with a passion for travel and a talent for storytelling.
About Your Instructor:
Katie is a professional travel writer and journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Women’s Health, Jamie Oliver Magazine, and many more. She’s successfully pitched and published hundreds of travel stories, and now she’s here to show you how to do the same.
Katie also wrote a book, There She Goes, and she helped shortlist winners for the TravMedia Awards UK, where she had the privilege of reading hundreds of top travel articles and guidebooks from some of the best writers around today. This gave her a unique insight into what makes a good travel story tick.