We write blurbs and reviews for our authors, as well as publicize their books and other work on our social media pages. The magazine and its contributors have been anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing, Lowell Thomas Travel Awards and magazines and reviews around the world. We support our writers by submitting the best stories of the year to contests and anthologies. There is no pay for accepted stories other than in the contests, but we will make your piece look gorgeous and send it out to the world. Nowhere operates like a literary journal, putting what limited resources we have directly into discovering, editing and designing your work. We also nominate our authors for prestigious literary prizes each year. With fifty years of editing experience in the travel world on our masthead, the editing process is comprehensive-making your work look its best before publishing. We don’t take just anything submitting is competitive, and our staff focuses a keen eye on narrative, setting, character, story arc, detail, research, reporting and authenticity. Thirty percent of the stories we publish are by first-time writers. Sorry, your browser does not support iframes.One hundred percent of the content in Nowhere comes from submissions. The fires below create hot wind that lifts their colorful kites and their laughter into flight. Children run above, along the rooftop of the concrete building where a woman waits to die. From the river, I look toward the burning bodies. You must give more." I hand over 500 more and walk back to the shore where the boatman is waiting. Good karma for you." I offer her 500 rupees, a large sum by Indian standards. The guide explains, "She needs money for her pyre. She holds out her hand, and a wrinkled breast sags from her sari. "Come," he says, and leads me into a cold concrete building where elderly wait to die. "Good luck," he points to the ash, "Very good luck, indeed." "Three hours," he says, "to burn a body." My legs are hot from the flames. I can almost make out a skull, a flame twisting from the ghost of an eye. My guide says, "This one almost finished," points to a pyre. I watch the Untouchables tend to the "eternal flame," watch the living in order to avoid the dead. They chant, and the family follows their dead. Every few minutes, the Untouchables travel barefoot down the stairs, carrying another gold-clad body on their shoulders. The murky river holds a thousand such lights, stars floating in dawn waters-real stars hidden by a tent of clouds. I meet my guide, and he shoos away beggars and children selling shells that hold candles and marigolds-an offering for Mother Ganga. student at the University of Nevada, Reno, wins a trip on assignment to Mongolia with Bellows, courtesy of Travcoa, and an opportunity to write about the experience for the Traveler website. Out of nearly 500 essays, National Geographic Traveler's editor-in-chief Keith Bellows selected the following entry by Suzanne Roberts as the grand prize winner. We asked students all over North America to send us stories about a travel adventure that moved, excited, or changed them.
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