Write for us
The best travel writing brings together a fluent mix of information, insights, and experience or impressions. Add a sense of curiosity, of humor, and of humanism and we’ll follow you anywhere. This is true whether writing about sights, art, food, places, people, culture, history, a point of view, or one’s own travels.
We would love to open our pages to writers who share that view.
Who are our readers?
Generally speaking, France Revisited attracts savvy readers and seasoned travelers. Many of our readers have been to France before, a good number have traveled extensively in Europe or would like to someday to experience an extended stay on the continent, and others actually do live or have lived in France or elsewhere in Europe. While more than 50% of our readers are North American, we also have a significant number of English-speaking and French-speaking readers in France as well as readers in the U.K., Canada and Germany.
Types of work we publish
The work available on France Revisited runs the gamut of approaches to travel writing: journalism, review, analysis, experience, interview, opinion, essay, humor, vignette, video, photography. All sections but the editor’s blog are open to contributions.
As with all magazines, the best place to start is to read some of the articles that have already been posted in the various departments. Though many of the articles on France Revisited are written Editor Gary Lee Kraut, we are not looking for contributors to endorse his style but rather to have their own voice, to be highly informed, and to think creatively when writing about travel, people, and place.
Our readers want to know that there’s an authoritative or curious or unique voice behind each piece. Subject matter is very open. Know your stuff, know where to get accurate information, and have fun with the article. There are no formulas, but please to avoid self-dramatization. Use first-person when your experience or interaction with people or place really matters, otherwise let your authority as observer or analyst or journalist do the work. Using second-person is tricky business; if you’re going to use it you better make pretty good.
Though we prefer original material (and will only pay for original material), we are willing to consider material that has been previously published provided that you hold all the rights to it and that you indicate wherever else it has been published in print or on the internet.
Our goal is NOT to sell readers sights, destinations, restaurants, etc. Leave that to travel agencies, tourist boards, PR agencies, and salesmen. Instead, present or explore sights, destinations, restaurants, art, history, etc. in a way that’s both interesting/entertaining and informative. Be well informed yet think in terms of story or theme or experience rather than basic information or hype. For a destination piece, don’t feel that you need to throw in every sight and museum or to list a bunch hotels and restaurants if you know nothing about them.
Journalistes et écrivains francophones. We are willing to consider material in French from native French-speaking writers/journalists and to translate their work into English for publication on France Revisited.
Payment
We are able to pay contributors primarily in relation to advertising revenue from click-based or banner ads. Payment will therefore fluctuate. As of January 2012 we are paying $0.02 per published word for the first article an individual publishes with us and $0.03 per published word for his/her subsequent articles. If you prefer payment in the form of coffee or wine or, for exceptional work, lunch, that’s negotiable.
A picture may be worth a thousand words in some circles, but a post in France Revisited’s Photography section (under The Arts) is worth 250 words, whether it contains one or two photos. We are primarily interested, however, in a series of posts in that section, so please contact us if you have an idea for a series.
We pay $10 per video.
We hope to be able to increase payment as ad revenue increases. Any increases will be noted on this page.
We are generally unable to pay expenses at this time but can in some instances provide press access.
France Revisited promises no glory but does offer an educated readership for your work.
Rights and Responsibility
Acceptance of material for posting on FranceRevisited.com, even if no actual payment is made, is for our non-exclusive right to post the work on this site. We reserve the right to remove the article of our own accord at any time and for any reason.
In submitting your work to FranceRevisited.com you agree that you are fully responsible for any plagiarism, infringement, or slander it may contain and for any consequences of such.
How to submit
If interested in contributing content to FranceRevisited.com on an occasional or regular basis, begin by sending some information about yourself (name, where you live, writing experience, travel interests) and about the subject(s) that you might write about and/or approach(es) you might use. Also include links to any pertinent writing samples.
Those with a specific idea for a single article may send the completed article or an extended query, along with a brief bio. Our interest in a query does not mean that the piece will be published on France Revisited.
In all cases, your first correspondence should contain no attachments. All text should be included in the body of the e-mail. File attachments will not be opened unless we have requested that they be sent.
Do NOT send queries of the kind “I love France and would like to write for you, what subjects would interest you?”
For video submissions send an e-mail describing the video (if not yet filmed) or containing a link to the completed video.
Send all queries and completed submissions to francerevisited@aol.com. Please include “Submission” plus your full name in the subject line. Be sure to provide your full contact information, including telephone number, in the e-mail.
Endnote
We appreciate your interest in writing for France Revisited. We are unable to make extensive individual comments on all submissions. If it turns out that we don’t consider your work right for France Revisited please don’t take that to mean anything other than the fact that we have a very subjective approach to travel writing, that we in no way represent the mainstream press, and that we may have articles in the works or already published that are too closely related to your own idea.
