If you’re a Solo Traveller – enter this Bradt Guide Travel Writing Competition

Bradt is looking for inspirational stories about travelling alone to include in a new collection of true-life tales publishing in 2017.

If you have you been a reluctant solo traveller, id it take courage to overcome your fears? And were you pleased that you took the plunge? If so, please tell them about that first solo trip.

The aim of the anthology is to inspire and encourage people to travel alone.

Those travellers whose tales are selected for publication will receive a small fee and two complimentary copies of the book.

Bradt Guide Travel Writing Competition Entry details

Length: Stories should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words long
Written in the first person by someone who has reluctantly travelled alone – but has loved it.

Deadline: midnight on 31st October 2016

Selection: they aim to compile a shortlist by December, and complete the final selection by the end of the year (by which time they should have notified all entrants, whether successful or not).