Submission Guidelines

Writing for In The Know Traveler

In The Know Traveler makes being a published travel writer simple. Our site promotes original stories, blogs, and features written by seasoned pros and articulate novices alike. Regardless of your experience, we are interested in your voice and would like to consider your original work for publication. May your creativity soar!

Here is how we do it.
  1. You send us you your story and/or photographs (450-600 words in length).
  2. We proof read every story for grammar, punctuation and content.
  3. You retain all of your rights. We retain the right to publish article/photography on our site and make the edits described above.
We told you it was simple.

Simple! Write, send us your stuff, we edit... and you are published online.

NOTE: we take our credibility and integrity seriously. Bad writing can be edited and improved—stolen writing (plagiarism) is a crime! Whether you write for us or anyone else, give credit to your sources or unoriginal ideas, always.

Benefits for You
  • Exposure: In The Know Traveler now reaches tens of thousands of travel fans and industry professionals every month.
  • Experience: Writing an article for a magazine or website is fun, but it requires discipline. This will be the easiest way to learn how to work with an editor, period.
  • Credentials: As a contributor to In the Know Traveler, you will have a permanent listing on our Contributors page, a growing directory of respected travel-writers. You will also have something to put on your resume.
  • Payment: We pay $10 bucks per story, 450+ words (at this point, we are not paying for photography). It is not much money, we realize, but more of a gesture that we value your writing... in time we plan on increasing revenue for our writers, so help us improve and grow!
Press trips and media events

This is not really a benefit, but writers ask all the time. Occasionally there are press trips or media events we need help covering. This is based solely at our discretion and our relationship with each writer and only considered as needed. We cannot guarantee trips or promise to send you; it is your writing skill, timing and a dash of luck that will allow us to send you on a press trip.

What should I write about?

Tell us what you would tell your best friend, not what you think a travel article looks like. We want something that teaches our readers something practical about travel and the nuances about a particular destination. We want the details. We want an In The Know Traveler. -Editor