The Fall Gratitude Travel Writing Contest began on September 11, 2015 and ends on Thanksgiving. Have you been a rainbow in someone else’s cloud? I love how Oprah talks about this saying from Dr. Maya Angelou. Share your story of how you found your rainbow or helped someone else. More details: click here.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Winter 2015 Inspiration contest. The winners can be seen here. Finalists for the Summer 2015 Independence Writing Contest are announced and winners will be announced in December.
Ready to WRITE but need some encouragement?
Sign up for the Pink Pangea Travel Writing Retreat in Costa Rica!January 30 – February 6, 2016 at Pura Vida Retreat and Spa, Costa Rica. Pink Pangea’s travel writing retreat in Costa Rica brings together a community of women to write and share their travel experiences within a supportive and inspiring environment. The travel writing retreat will be facilitated by Pink Pangea Co-Founder Jaclyn Mishal.
I now have 376,081 views! I hope to have 400,000 by the end of 2015 and 450 videos. Enjoy movies from Israel, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Bogota, St Kitts, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Palau, Guam, Hawaii, India as well as Bali and Lombok Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), and Nepal.
Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel.
On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times.
Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.