Posts tagged work of art
Work of Art Contest Winners and July Freelancers
Hello Trazzlers—
What a busy couple of months it has been!
We’ve been holding back on sending out our newsletter this month, because we have a big announcement to make about our next contest in mid-July… in the meantime, I wanted to announce our contest winners and July freelancers here.
Work of Art Contest Winners:
Kendra Hoover, Julie Hammonds, David Chachere, Kimberly Wadsworth, Anne-Sophie Redisch, Sami, Hrvoje Karalic, Gladys Glover, Yoshi Salaverry, and Beth Green.
Work of Art Contest Entries
This month, we are returning to some of our favorite writers to get another batch of trips, hiring contest contenders who caught our eye, commissioning sponsored trips for specific destinations, and digging back many months to hire writers who have been on our list of potential freelancers for quite a while.
July freelancers:
Nicholas Rowlands | Shara Johnson | Troy Nahumko | Robert Ellsworth | Clair Whitmer | Fayette Fox | Mollie Day | Summer Whitford | Yiannis Ifantides | Irina Vodonos | Galen Leeds | Billy Gonzalez | Rich Carriero | Donald Mammoser | Angela Allan | Christopher Johnston | Annie B Shapero | Daniel Djang | Muon Van | Greg Thomas | Paul Koning | Ashwin Sodhi | Christine Cantera |
Trazzler’s user base is growing rapidly and our budget for freelancing will continue to increase in tandem with the site. We know that none of our growth would be possible without the contribution of our community team, freelance writers, and contributors. Trazzler is a lean—and decidedly uncorporate—operation. Although the last year has been a bit of a financial obstacle course, our commitment has always been to dedicate a high percentage of our budget (currently 26% compared to an average of 13% in traditional media) to hiring those writers who embrace the idea of Trazzler and have a one-of-a-kind contribution to make.
Writers: You can help us find the right assignment for you by updating your Trazzler bio (under settings) and adding your area of expertise and the countries, regions, states, or cities that you would like to write about. More and more, we hope to be able to offer contracts to write a block of trips about a specific regional or topical beat. We realize that many of you who submitted excellent samples might slip through the cracks if we don’t know all of the places you can write about. We will be offering many more contracts over the coming months and are always going back through all of the writers who submitted trips to find the best ones for each assignment, so please stick with us!
Also coming very soon: writers will be able to see when a trip has been read by an editor. We will also be using this blog to post details about specific writing gigs as they become available, so you can have a chance to let us know that you are interested (Twitter @trazzler is a good way to get our attention). We have really been overwhelmed (in the best of all possible ways) by the quality of the writing that we have received and we are determined to improve our responsiveness and communication.
—Megan
P.S. Check back in on July 14 for our big summer contest announcement.
May Newsletter: Work of Art
Hello Trazzlers—
Pablo Picasso once said: “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” (A stain remover for the psyche!) And can’t the same be said for travel? As the days get longer, steal a moment for yourself for a weekend getaway, a day trip, or even just a walk across town to a different neighborhood… And why not seek out some art while you are out there (and share it with us)?
May Contest—Work of Art
http://www.trazzler.com/trips/tags/work-of-art
End date: June 15, 12pm EST; 5pm GMT
Prize: $250 contract to write 10 trips
We’ve found that taking on an entire museum in a Trazzler trip doesn’t do justice to the works contained within. So this month we are going to narrow the focus a bit and write about a particular work of art that is a microdestination unto itself—be it a favorite painting, or room of paintings, at a museum just down the street… or a masterpiece that you saw on a trip that you can’t get out of your mind.
We’re leaving the concept of a “work of art” quite open to interpretation. It could be a room of Calder mobiles, a mural that captures a neighborhood’s history, a nationalist painting that engulfs you with its symbolism, a series of curvaceous street sculptures, an industrial wasteland transformed into a garden of graffiti, ancient paintings in the Kalahari desert…
For inspiration, have a look at some past Trazzler trips that fit the bill and more recent contest entries: work of art.
See rules and more contest information.
April Contest Recap—Local Institutions
http://www.trazzler.com/trips/tags/local-institution
Prizes awarded: Twelve $250 contracts to write 10 trips
We are happy to report that local institutions are alive and well. The submissions were—to reduce it to one word—eclectic: a polka bar time warp in Minneapolis, an outdoor cinema in the shadow of the Acropolis, a decidedly non-corporate bookstore in Chicago, a classic corner hangout in Buenos Aires, an indie record store in Nashville, a beachside Balinese seafood shack that comes with a friendly cooking lesson… Find a local institution near you.
April Local Institution Contest WinnersAdam Bailey
Peter Dorrien Traisci
Simon Gray
Ifang Hsieh
Brian Lauvray
Marian Liou Black
Doug Mack
Amiee Maxwell
Alicia Miller
Diana Springfield
Jessica Stout
Christina Tse
Why Wishlist?
To move from trip to trip on Trazzler.com, you can hit “skip to next” or “add to wishlist.” Over the next month, we will be launching drastic improvements to our recommendations engine. We have thousands and thousands of trips and we would love to help you find the very best places to dream about—and we hope—travel to. The more trips you wishlist, the more accurate our recommendations will be.
Welcome Twitterers!
Thanks for following—today we topped 360,000 followers. You can always contact us with feedback and questions @trazzler. Our editors cherrypick their favorite trips every day. We have some big plans on Twitter this month, so follow along.
Megan Cytron
Executive Editor
P.S. If you have any questions or feedback, you can find us @trazzler on Twitter or on Get Satisfaction.
