Notebook of Jenny Williams. Feature photo by: Elleinad

Recently we’ve been publishing more narrative pieces, especially in our series Notes From the Road. The original idea with that series was to publish short, raw pieces, writing pulled directly from one’s travel journal. A good example was the piece “I had fully crossed the line,” originally sent as an email, the kind you have to just sit down and write before the feelings go away.

We’ve decided to extend this series to the next logical place: literally pulling out excerpt from people’s journals and sketchbooks. We’re now accepting submissions of photo scans of:

• journal entries (text only)
• sketches
• mixed sketches and notes
• anything else directly from your journal that seems relevant to travel + place

Submission process

Please send your work directly to david[at]matadornetwork[dot]com with the photo sent as a .jpg attachment. Please make sure your photo is at least 1000 pixels wide. Bios and cover letters are not necessary. Please put “journal pages” in the subject line, plus the title.

Response times are generally within a week. If you do not hear back from us within a week it means that your piece did not fit our specific editorial vision. Please do not take this as a judgment of your skills or talent, but simply a question of the type of pieces we’re trying to publish.

Payment is the same as a regular matador network article. $25 via paypal.

Final note: works previously published on the internet or print are not accepted, however if you’d like to rework something you’ve already published at your matador blog, that’s fine.

We look forward to reading your submissions. Suerte,