Calls for Pitches on Beaches and Hotels, and the Coachella Throwback You Didn't Ask For

Hello, travel writers,

First of all, thank you for voting in last week’s poll! We heard you, and it looks like we’re sticking to newsletter sends on Mondays (as much as we possibly can).

On that note, happy Monday. We hope you enjoyed your weekend! Stacey is in London Marathon training, and Nina enjoyed some rare time playing tourist at home with a great spa day at one of her local favorites, Terranea Resort. Meanwhile, we were thrilled to see so much fun news roll in from our students and job board subscribers.

Tiffany Chang Perez is on her way to Palm Springs for the Greater Palm Springs “Meet the Mentors” program, and as former mentors, we can’t wait to see what she writes after her trip. Kathryn Anderson landed a piece she spotted on our job board with Business Insider (please share with us when it’s live, Kathryn!), and Jessica Chaintreuil was published in Eater (more on that below)! You all continue to impress us and provide us with great reading material.

And as always, see more on the Be A Travel Writer Job Board for only $4/month or $40/year. We each added multiple openings and new calls for pitches today alone. Happy pitching!

Calls for Pitches

beach.com: Beach.com is gearing up for an exciting relaunch and is looking for freelance travel writers to help build the go-to hub for discovering the world’s best beaches and coastal getaways. See more.

Vacationer: Is open to pitches that inspire and inform LGBTQIA+ travelers to help them travel better, smarter, and more safely. See more.

Low Season Traveller: Low Season Traveller is open for pitches for the next two editions of their magazine (July-September and October-December). They’re looking for pitches that inspire their readers to travel outside of the peak season and offer inspirational first-person stories of low season travel. See more.

Hotels Above Par: Hotels Above Par is looking for freelance writers who have stayed at boutique hotels in various destinations (see link for list). Please pitch only hotels that are either independent or part of a small boutique hotel collection—to be transparent, no mega-resorts, hyper-commercialized stays, or two-star motels. See more.

Ori Magazine: Ori is aiming to flip the script on the traditional travel space, prioritizing local contributors and creatives to tell our global stories. See more.

Late Checkout: Late Checkout is building out the May content calendar, so if you’ve been sitting on a pitch, now’s the time to send it. See more.

Full-Time Job Openings

Wirecutter: is looking for a beauty and personal care writer who understands skin-care ingredients, makeup basics, and hair tools.

Princess Cruises: Is hiring a Social Media Content Producer to help shape Princesss Cruises' voice, vibe, and visuals across social media. See more.

Complex: Is hiring a Pop and Internet Culture Editor to guide the editorial voice for Complex Pop Culture, curating taste and tone of channel, and ensure that both are represented across editorial. See more.

(HIGH PAY) New York Times (Up to $135k): Is seeking an editor to join the newsroom Audience team and partner with the California Editor-at-Large and others to reach new readers and deepen our engagement with those who are already coming to The Times. See more.

Esquire: Esquire seeks a Deputy Editor to assign, edit, and write news and human-interest stories for all our platforms. The Deputy Editor will also edit our daily politics blog with Charles P. Pierce. The right candidate comes loaded with ideas as well as a stable of writers. See more.

Travel + Leisure: Dotdash Meredith is looking for a remote content update editor for Travel + Leisure. As a content update editor, you will join our Quality Team, a team of remote editors, producers, and fact checkers who work on our sizable library of existing articles to improve the reader experience, drive additional traffic, and ensure the accuracy of all of our content. See more.

One Story We Love

Be A Travel Writer student Jessica Chaintreuil just had her first article published for Eater: A Vibey New Cocktail Den in Redondo Beach Serves Up ’70s Throwback Style. Coincidentally, it happens to be about a new bar right near my house! Thanks to Jessica’s review, I’m planning to visit next weekend.

One Place We Love

OK, it’s been a long time since either of us went to Indio for Coachella, but as a timely throwback, here we are covering the festival together for Travel + Leisure back in 2019. We interviewed festival queen Vanessa Hudgens, danced a lot, tried all the food, recorded tons of social content, and got our ears pierced at a pool party (we’re not sure why either). Teachers are fun, too!

See you in class,

Stacey & Nina