Bradt Travel Guides is running a competition to find travellers’ tales for Beastly Journeys, an anthology of travel writing about true-life journeys with animals.
The book, which is the third of a trilogy of themed travel-writing anthologies, will include some extracts by well-known writers focusing on travelling with animals, but the bulk of the content will come from this competition.
Tales should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words and the focus should be on travelling with an animal (ie, not just a wildlife encounter). Stories featuring unusual animals and where the presence of the animal is unexpected or uninvited are particularly welcome. All submissions must be true stories, and written in the first person.