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Mail Travel’s travel writing competition: the finalists!
A month ago we challenged aspiring travel writers to impress our very own Frank Barrett, the Mail on Sunday travel editor, in 200 words or less. No mean feat we can tell you! And the stakes were high,...
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A Travel Writing Workshop with Frank Barrett
It’s something any aspiring travel writer would sell their first class upgrade for – an hour and a half with the Mail on Sunday’s Travel Editor Frank Barrett to talk travel. And the five finalists in...
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Travel Writing Final: Liz Cleere
Walking in Memphis In the Daily Mail’s Kensington offices, our afternoon presentation on the deep south reached Alabama. The opening bars of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s anthem thumped through my head. “Sweet home...
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Travel Writing Final: Ruth Eckett
Fifty Shades Brighter in the Deep South Frankly, my dears, I’m utterly seduced by the attractions of America’s Deep South. These states laugh in the face of grey. Even the housewives of New York will...
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Travel Writing Final: Julia Hammond
In response to Clarkson, May and Hammond.. Top Gear got it wrong. At the end of their entertaining but clichéd Deep South Special, having been run out of town by angry rednecks in Seminole, Alabama,...
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Travel Writing Final: Graeme Marsh
A musical road trip through the Deep South… Wherever you travel in the Deep South the influences of French, Celtic, Spanish, and African-Caribbean cultures can be found, from place names to food, but...
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Travel Writing Final: Lisa Spratling
Pack your corset Miss Scarlett but leave them there Blue Suede Shoes at home! We’re Going with the Wind to America’s Deep South! As London’s Olympic torch is extinguished and autumn peeks from just...
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The final of the Travel Writing voting so far…..
With less than two weeks to go in the final voting for our Travel Writing Competition the tension and nerves are high! And that’s just in the Mail Travel office, we hate to think what our five very...
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The winner of our Travel Writing competition is….
After more than 250 entries, five finalists, one masterclass with a renowned Travel Editor, five weeks of voting and more than 1,000 votes cast, we can reveal the winner of our Travel Writing...
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‘The amazing American Deep South so far…’
Just over a month ago a talented writer named Julia Hammond battled her way to win our Travel Writing competition and the prize of a ‘press trip’ to the Deep South of America, with the write-up of her...
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