(GLEN ROCK, New Jersey/MediaQuire) -- Just six weeks into its debut, TraveltheWriteWay.com, launched by author and group travel expert Linda Dini Jenkins, was featured as one of the best travel blogs on travelblogs.com.
On the heels of this success, Linda is sponsoring a contest for up-and-coming travel writers. Her blog speaks to the joys of both travel and travel writing, and features stories about destinations, food, and the art of journaling and capturing the sights, smells, sounds, tastes and emotions elicited by travel.
The Scoop: Send Linda your travel essay of 1000 words or less as a Word doc (.doc files only, please) attachment to ldjenkins@aol.com. Linda will personally review all entries.
The Prize: One winner will be invited as a guest blogger to “Travel the Write Way” and will also receive a signed copy of Linda’s most recent book, Up at the Villa: Travels with My Husband.
Deadline for Entries: Have all entries to Linda no later than May 31, 2010. Your guest spot will be featured in July 2010.
Linda Dini Jenkins is author of the award-winning book Up at the Villa: Travels with my Husband, a beautifully illustrated collection of travel stories, personal essays and poetry.
Up at the Villa has recently been nominated as an outstanding non-fiction work for the Library of Virginia Literary Awards, which recognizes and celebrates distinguished Virginia writers. It was also a finalist in USA Books News’s 2009 Travel Guide catebory.
Linda has been published widely in literary magazines including Tampa Review, Peregrine, Phoebe, South Florida Poetry Review, Writer to Writer and Poeti italo-americani e italo-canadesi. She is also the author of Journey of a Returning Christian: Writing Into God.
Up At the Villa: Travels with my Husband 
By Linda Dini Jenkins
Published by Great Little Books, LLC
Dist. to the trade by Midpoint Trade Books, Inc.
$17.95 • (192 pages) • 9.25 x 7.5 • Trade Paperback • ISBN: 978-0-9790661-2-2
www.upatthevillatravels.com
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