The Atavist Magazine @atavist.com One incredible true story every month. Part of Automattic Inc. https://magazine.atavist.com
Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social Plucky journalist. Email me: sdweiser@gmail.com. Working on a book proposal. Portfolio: soniaweiser.wordpress.com
Open for commissions and kind words. Seriously. Hire me.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Frommer’s Travel Guides @frommers.com The most trusted name in travel since 1957. Guide books, news, features, podcasts at Frommers.com. Written by experts, never by AI. Independently owned.
TravMedia @travmedia.bsky.social TravMedia is the travel industry’s largest online news portal for media and PR pros. Register through the link below! https://travmedia.com
Matt Seabridge @ilikeyoumatt.bsky.social Freelance Digital PR - https://www.digitalprtips.com/ 🌟
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Digital PR | Data | SEO 🤓
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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Nick Hunt @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social Author: Red Smoking Mirror, Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water, Loss Soup, The Parakeeting of London. Co-director: Dark Mountain Project.
Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social Travel writer | Guidebook Author | Obsessed by deserts, mountains & finding the perfect hummus | Ex-Lonely Planet Türkiye & Egypt author | Lives in a cave | Posts mainly about: MENA, travel, books I like, & my stupid cats | Working on a novel.
Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social Author / editor of books on travel writing. Poet. Interests in visual art, especially that of Gurminder Sikand.
Stuart McDonald @travelfish.bsky.social Asia-based, Australian-made. Founder of Travelfish, author of Couchfish, serial moaner, and late to most parties. Rambles on travel, tourism garbage fires, hot bowls and cold drinks.
Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com Author: FINDING ALADDIN, out Nov 2026 • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • QUITE ALONE • https://linktr.ee/matthewteller • He/him
kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. No longer flying for work. Son of Portstewart, Co Derry, citizen of the world. Editor of deskboundtraveller.com.
@tswick.bsky.social @tswick.bsky.social Travel writer and essayist, amateur photographer and cartoonist. Native of New Jersey, friend of Poland, defender of Florida, fan of the unsung.
Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social Writer, photographer, polar guide, often in faraway places.
Lucy Dodsworth @lucydodsworth.bsky.social 📍Cheltenham-based travel writer
🌍 Car-free and train travel (and lots of cats)
🖋️ Blogs at https://www.ontheluce.com and http://www.explorethecotswolds.com
📙 Author of 'Auld and New in Edinburgh' (BGTW guidebook of the year)
Kirsten Henton @kirstenjh.bsky.social Edinburger • Weather2Travel editor & travel writer • Words in The Sunday Times, BBC, JRNY, Scotland Mag etc • History, nature, watersports, lover of the great outdoors 🌍
Olivia Greenway @oliviagreenway.bsky.social Travel & lifestyle journalist; travel content for brands. Manchester-based, ex-London. Veggie plus food and art lover. Words in Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times, Time Out and others.
www.oliviagreenway.com
https://oliviatravel.substack.com
Nina Caplan @ninacaplan.bsky.social "Bacchantian maiden, parching for wine". Wine for Times Luxx, travel for The Times, Travel+Leisure, Food&Wine, Conde Nast Traveler, Club Oenologique etc. Award-winning book The Wandering Vine, ✍️book on Michelin. Lives in London & France. www.ninacaplan.com
Huw Oliver @huwoliver.bsky.social Audience editor and columnist on the travel desk at The Times and The Sunday Times
Cynthia D. Bertelsen @cynthiabertelsen.bsky.social Award-winning author/historian/librarian. 3 Best in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Culinary history, reading, cooking, travel, politics, oceans.
More at cynthiabertelsen.substack.com/, medium.com@gherkinstomato, and gherkinstomatoes.com
Simon Usborne @susborne.bsky.social Journalist, London. Features for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Telegraph Magazine etc. susborne.com
James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running... 
Pat Riddell @patriddell.bsky.social Editorial | Content | Consultancy
Editor-at-Large, National Geographic Traveller (UK)
https://patriddell.co.uk/
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social Journalist writing for The Times/Sunday Times, FT and others. Freelance Writer of the Year 2024 & 2020, Travel Writer of the Year 2021. Saltwater for blood
https://www.james-stewart.com
Sian Meades-Williams @sianysianysiany.bsky.social Freelance Writing Jobs newsletter 💌 Food and travel features writer🍝Yeovil Literary Prize winner 🏆 The Pyjama Myth 📖 Cats 🐾 Potatoes 🍟 she/her 💕 https://freelancewritingjobs.substack.com
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Rosie Whitehouse @rosiewhitehouse.bsky.social Journalist and author. Two Sisters: Love, Betrayal and Resistance in Wartime France is out in January 2025 https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/two-sisters/ I also write travel guides and am the Historical Advisor to the ‘45 Aid Society w 45aid.org
Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.
Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
Jonathan Bousfield @jonbousfield.bsky.social Lives in Zagreb, wanders around a bit
Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Ian Bancroft @ianbancroft.bsky.social Writer & former diplomat. Peacebuilding @pci_org. #Wine @autochthoinos. Wrote a novel 'Luka' (http://bit.ly/LukaNovel) & a north Kosovo book (https://bit.ly/NKosovo).
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway 
Jonathan Chatwin @jmchatwin.bsky.social Non-fiction writer.
Writes about travel, China, sometimes both simultaneously.
‘The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future’ (2024).
‘Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China’ (2019)
‘Anywhere Out of the World’ (2012)
C.J. Schüler @schulercj.bsky.social Writer, editor, nature reserve volunteer, Herne Hillbilly. Author, The Wood That Built London, Along the Amber Route (shortlisted @StanfordsTravel Award 2021). Published @SandstonePress. Represented @CullandCoAgency
Jonty Este @jonty98.bsky.social International affairs editor at The Conversation UK: @uk.theconversation.com. Interests include books, music, cooking, dogs, Tottenham Hotspur FC and travel, not necessarily in that order. And cricket. Did I mention cricket?
Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social write(at)womenwritethebalkans.com
IG: @womenwritethebalkans
womenwritethebalkans.com
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Laura Sanders @laurathejourno.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, travel writer & broadcaster 📝
Creator of The True Travel Podcast 🎙️
Former senior journalist at Which? Travel
Words: Conde Nast Traveller, Lonely Planet, Telegraph Travel, Indy Travel, etc
Auburn Scallon @wsauburn.bsky.social Guidebook author, localization editor, and @Unbreaking.org contributor. I’m into pop culture, performing arts, politics, podcasting, critical travel writing, & conscious language. she/they
https://auburn.contently.com/
Shawn Hennessey ☀️🍷 @sevillatapas.bsky.social 👸🏻Queen of Tapas
🥂 Sherry Educator
🐷 Jamón Enthusiast
🍤🍷Food & Wine Experiences
✍🏻 Decanter Magazine Contributor
💃🏻Sevillana since 1993
☀️Sevilla Spain
🔗 linktr.ee/sevillatapas
Victoria Trott @trottaround.bsky.social Travel writer. Franco-phoney.
teddy minford @teddyminford.bsky.social travel writer + editor
Jill SG @wordsbyjill.bsky.social Love: cats, dogs, mountains, lakes, crime fiction, swimming, skiing, life in France 🗻⛷️🏊♀️📚
Loathes: tidying, boredom, cooking, televised sport 👩🍳
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social ✏️Writer, birder, boater, poet
🌱 #DailyNature 🌊Water Book Club 🚢 Mess In A Boat Substack
🚂#TravelWriter 🛶#UKCanals
🏆 In The Dark LL 25
WC NatureWriting SL 24
Porthleven SL 23
📰 IntrepidTimes, WaterwaysWorld Telegraph
#NatureWriting
#NaturePoetry
Monica Cesarato @monicacesarato.bsky.social Venice-Italy expert / food & travel blogger / podcaster for Venice Talks / author of "Andar Per Bacari" a Cicchetti book ---https://editorialeprogramma.it/shop/guide/andar-per-bacari-english-version/
Laura Motta @lauramotta.bsky.social Travel writer and editor, content strategist, lifelong theater nerd, selective figure skating fan. This meeting could have been a musical.
Olly Beckett @aplantogo.bsky.social Travel writer (bylines inc. Fodor's, Travel + Leisure, Time Out, National Geographic, Cruise and Travel), member of British Guild of Travel Writers. Editor of Mountains Magazine. Specialising in:
Mountain tourism | Responsible travel | Cruise | Hiking
Jon Holmes @jonholmes.bsky.social Fiddling on this place while the other place burns.
Makes #TheSkewer for the BBC, among other nonsense. weareunusual.net
Audrey Gillan @audreygillan.bsky.social Writer and broadcaster.
www.audreygillan.com
Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
Geraldine @everywhereist.bsky.social James Beard Award-winning writer, bestselling author, and all-around weirdo behind Everywhereist.com. Author, ALL OVER THE PLACE (Hachette, 2017) and IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT (PRH, 2024)
Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social Stage haunter, writer, Addick in Dundee. Attention All Shipping live show coming to a theatre near you as long as you're near a theatre where it's on.
Gail Simmons @gailsimmons.bsky.social Walks & Writes | Out now: BETWEEN THE CHALK AND THE SEA | Rep. @AgentSophieL @CWAgencyUK | Teaches @BSUCreativeW | http://Travelscribe.org
Emma Gregg @emmagregg.com Travel journalist, author, editor, photographer
🌍 Africa, UK & elsewhere
🦋 wildlife • nature • culture • islands
🌱 responsible tourism • sustainability • eco-adventures
www.emmagregg.com
Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social Words, bikes, dogs, cooking, stories, resistance. More at nerdseyeview.com. I host a podcast about getting fired: https://cannedpodcast.com/
Joshua Mellin @joshuamellin.bsky.social Writer / Photographer | Published @cnn.com, @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc. | Covering #travel #music #art #sports | http://instagram.com/joshuamellin joshuamellin.com
Helen Ranger @helenranger.bsky.social Writer living in SW France. Lonely Planet author, mostly Africa, also France. Morocco travel consultant. Loves food and cooking, history, podcasts, books.
www.conciergemorocco.com
Lisa Young @lisayoung.bsky.social Writer/Photographer Co-founder iEscape.Com. In Wanderlust Telegraph Guardian C&TH Times NGT Independent BLLNR Observer ADVENTURE.com Bentley Magazine
Abigail Blasi @abiwhere.bsky.social Travel Writer @Lonely Planet, FT, Times, Telegraph, the i, the Independent 
TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social Love to travel? Love to read?
TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
See a destination through the eyes of an author
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol
https://paulclammer.com/
Paul Cheney @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social Reader | Non-Fiction Reviewer | Blogger | Book Collector | Dad | Development Engineer | Geek | Beer Lover | All views mine
http://halfmanhalfbook.co.uk/
Mike Gerrard @mikegerrard.bsky.social Travel/drinks writer. Rugby fan. Crime writing reader. Latest book: Behind Bars, which is not a prison diary. Half year in Arizona, half in The Fens.
David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social Travel writer. Nerd. General annoyance.
I never met a joke I liked that I didn't want to drill into the ground.
Writes quizzes at https://geograquiz.com/ . Shares unsolicited thoughts at https://planetwhitley.com/ .
Fiona Flores Watson @fionafloreswatson.bsky.social Writer, translator and guide in Seville. History nut. Mother of cats, dog and children. Involuntary teetotal.
Jo Fletcher-Cross @glitterjo.bsky.social Writer, love to travel, dying of pesky brain tumour, wants to make a joke out of… everything 
Annie Bennett @anniebennett.bsky.social Travel writer. Spain and Wales
Mark Horrell @markhorrell.bsky.social Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably) | Occasionally frivolous
Emese Maczko @emesemaczko.bsky.social Freelance Travel Writer focusing on #ecotourism and #sustainabletravel | Editor-in-chief for ecolodgesanywhere.com | Forbes Contributor | Bylines in Fortune, Euronews | MSN and Newsbreak Direct Publisher |
-> muckrack.com/emese-maczko/
Henry Wismayer @henrywismayer.bsky.social Hopeless dilettante. Features and essays all over, inc: NYT, WaPo, FT, WSJ, Atlantic, Nat Geo, Guardian, Noema, Aeon, and Time.
https://www.henry-wismayer.com/
Benedict Allen @benedictallen.bsky.social Motivational Speaker, "Extreme Explorer", Environmental Scientist, broadcaster, author. Brought non film-crew expeditions to the telly - inadvertently pioneering the Video Selfie.
Instagram: @benedictallenexplorer
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www.benedictallen.com
Richard Wiles @richard-wiles.bsky.social Author | LaSource bilingual dictionaries 🇫🇷
Practical French for property owners, renovators & gardeners.
📘 Free Quick Reference Guide ↓
https://www.richardwiles.co.uk/french-property-terms
Richard Franks | Travel Writer @richardfranks.co.uk Award-winning travel writer and journalist specialising in Scotland, Birmingham, adventure travel and music. Words for BBC, Nat Geo, Telegraph, Independent, Rough Guides & others. Takes photos too.
hello@richardfranks.co.uk
www.richardfranks.co.uk
Douglas Paton @douglaspaton.bsky.social BC-based writer - talks about tech, nature, writing, fly fishing
Words in National Geographic, Men's Journal, and more.
sj armstrong @sjarmstrong.bsky.social travel writer. nat geo, newspapers, más. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com Scottish outdoor travel writer 🌲
✏️: The Guardian, BBC etc.
Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social Hiking/travel writer ◦ Inner Hebrides, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, Iceland ◦ living in Port Ellen, Islay.
Books in this link ⬇️
linktr.ee/katiefeatherstone
James March @jmarchtravel.bsky.social Award-winning travel writer, guidebook author and fan of being elsewhere ✈️
Nat Geo Traveller, Telegraph, Lonely Planet, Conde Nast etc ✍️
jamesmarch.travel@gmail.com
Jan Schroder @janschroder.bsky.social Atlanta-based travel writer eating and drinking my way around the world. Editor-in-chief of The Travel 100. #travel #writer #travelwriter www.thetravel100.com #satw
Eibhlis Gale-Coleman @eibhlisgc.bsky.social Freelance travel journalist with words in BBC Travel, CNT, The Guardian, National Geographic, and more.
📌 Leeds - UK
✈️ Ireland
eibhlisgalecoleman@gmail.com
Lottie Gross @lottiegross.bsky.social 🌍 Travel writer
🐾 Author of dog-friendly travel books
✉️ Co-founder Talking Travel Writing on Substack
🐶 Servant to a Manchester Terrier
Rob Goss @robgoss.bsky.social Author. Writer. In Japan, from Devon.
Features, travel writing and books (LP, Nat Geo, etc).
Haiku & haibun. Short-form tinkering.
Latest book: Another Japan (Gestalten 2026)
www.robgosswriter.com
Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social Writer of books & features. WANDERLAND (Bloomsbury) shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year& Wainwright Prize.
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
AC Shilton @acshilton.bsky.social Journalist • Farmer • Mediocre Cyclist • Affirmation Chickens Author • Repped by
@lynnjohnstonlit
Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Projects and Collaborations, NYTimes. Queens, NYC, cocktail enthusiast. Creator of the Saltzsteini. Ruthless cosmopolitan.
jackie bryant @jackiebryant.bsky.social managing editor of San Diego Magazine; weed reporter for lots of websites, newspapers & magazines you’ve heard of and many you haven’t; writes the Cannabitch newsletter; host of The Plant Lady podcast; 2x Best American Travel Writing; yadda yadda yadda
Susan Valot @susanvalot.bsky.social Public radio reporter. Podcast producer/host (Quanta magazine). Professor. Hockey player. Globe trekker. Hiker. Work has been heard on KCRW, NPR's "Only A Game," KPCC. I’m also a freelance audio editor for podcasts. www.susanvalot.com
julia glum @juliag.bsky.social managing editor for news + email @ Money.com, fangirl @ heart
Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social Writer, editor, fern pointer-outer from Alameda, CA, former home of nuclear wessels. Mostly posting about science communication, plants, travel, soccer, and pie. Comms Director at @innovativegenomics.bsky.social
Rich O’Malley @richomalley.com “One Lucky Fan” / @NYBuildingCongress / Ex-Executive Editor @NYDailyNews / Ex-Deadspin, Newsday, SJU, Medill, LIU / Flânerie / Irreparably fraught / (he/they)
Reality: 🗽 Daydreaming: 🇮🇹
richomalley.com
Nikki Bayley @nikkibayley.bsky.social Head Cheese @ https://boardsofvancouver.ca
Writer @ Eater, BC Living, Daily Telegraph, Whistler Traveller.
Yin yoga. Roast dinners. Cork dork. Wrangler of world’s cutest dog.
@marahe.bsky.social @marahe.bsky.social 
Serena Renner @serenarenner.com Journalist and editor with an eye on climate, science, Indigenous sovereignty, and the coast. Associate Editor @earthislandjournal.bsky.social. Opinions are my own.
Naomi Tomky @gastrognome.bsky.social Food Editor. Freelance travel writer. Probably going to die from eating leftover rice. Seattle.
Allison Robicelli @allisonrobicelli.bsky.social Freelance food, travel and humor writer for @washingtonpost and other fun places. Eye of the tiger, mouth of a Teamster. Never serious, unless it's about Baywatch.
Kaitlyn Arford @kmarford.bsky.social I’m a freelance writer who would love to share your stories. Work w/ me: kaitlyn.arford[a]gmail.com kaitlynarford.com
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Romance reporting, Romancelandia jobs @theunapologeticromancereader.com