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- The Hakluyt Society is pleased to announce that its 2017 Essay Prize has been awarded to Annemarie McLaren 5 Jun 2017
- Transatlantic Literary Women: symposium, Glasgow Women’s Library (Sat 3 June) - from Ida B Wells to Sylvia Plath 23 May 2017
- Balkan Tangle: Collecting Montenegro in Print (Catherine Owen) 18 May 2017
- 'Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' Author Robert M. Pirsig Dies At 88 24 Apr 2017
- Two-Way Tickets: Travel, Home, and War - conference, Oxford 20 June (deadline for proposals now extended to 8 May) 24 Apr 2017
- Emma Press announce new call for submissions: we're looking for poems about travel (deadline: 28th May) 18 Apr 2017
- Five best books of nature writing, as selected by Amy Liptrot 17 Apr 2017
- Call for papers - Hakluyt Society symposium on Trading Companies and Travel Literature (deadline: 30 April) 8 Apr 2017
Call for papers - Centre for Travel Writing Studies seminar on Magazines on the Move: North American Periodicals and Travel (deadline 5 May) 8 Apr 2017
- Vicki Squire – Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Human Dignity and Biophysical Violence (podcast) 8 Apr 2017
- Walking Stumbling Limping Falling: a conversation between Alyson Hallett and Phil Smith 5 Apr 2017
- Plymouth University offering Research Masters in Travel Writing from Oct 2017 (with fee-waiver of £2000) 21 Mar 2017
- Uplandish – New Perspectives on Northern England’s ‘Wild’ Places (York 30 June) (deadline 31 March) 21 Mar 2017
- The journals of Henrietta Liston, 1796-1801 11 Mar 2017
- Walking the coast from Allonby to Silloth 9 Mar 2017
- Granta 138: Journeys - 'we ask some of the world's best writers: is travel writing dead? 1 Mar 2017
- Julian Sayarer: Why hitching across the USA led me to give £2500 to the ACLU 6 Feb 2017
- 'Just Like Riding a Bicycle': first episode of new RoughGuides podcast features Dervla Murphy and Charlie Walker 31 Jan 2017
- Shortlist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year whose winner will be announced on Thursday. 31 Jan 2017
- James Duthie, I Cycled into the Arctic Circle (1951), new edition of this rare journal 18 Dec 2016
Special Issue of American Quarterly on Tours of Duty and Tours of Leisure 16 Dec 2016
- Sara Wheeler to help judge Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 15 Dec 2016
- 'Why Travel Writing?' Talk by Tim Youngs at Bromley House in Nottingham on 30 November 26 Nov 2016
Karl Whitney reviews Estuary: Out from London to the Sea, by Rachel Lichtenstein 5 Nov 2016
A first, preliminary website for the Borders and Crossings 2017 conference to be held in Aberystwyth 10-12 July 4 Oct 2016
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