04 Jun 2021
The Best British Travel Writing anthology — available in bookshops across the UK and worldwide on Amazon in March 2022 — will be a collection of the best 25+ travel stories published in UK media over the last two decades.
The team is looking for outstanding travel stories published in British media between 1 January 2000 and 1 January 2021 to include in the anthology. Submit them - it's free to enter - for consideration to our editors before entries close on 30 June 2021 for a chance to be included. Selected writers will be paid a minimum of £150 per story. The team is working with the publisher to establish a process for this figure to rise as the project progresses. Thank you to those who have already entered!
For more information on how to submit your work, visit the Best British Travel Writing website. Best of luck everyone!
The judges
Levison Wood is a British explorer, writer and photographer who has produced several critically acclaimed documentaries and published nine best-selling travel books, including Walking the Nile, Walking the Himalayas and Walking the Americas. His most recent projects include a 5000-mile circumnavigation of the Arabian peninsula from Iraq to Lebanon and a book and television series that follows the migration and conservation of elephants in Botswana. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.
Simon Willmore is a British travel journalist and author. He's contributed to books on Spain, France, India and Malaysia for Rough Guides and Frommer's and written for international magazines and newspapers. He's the youngest-ever Chairman of the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW), a community of almost 300 of the world's best writers, photographers, bloggers and broadcasters and is the digital manager at Bradt Guides, the world's leading independent travel publisher.
