| Mari Nicholson |
last modified:
July 10, 2009 |
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Membership profile
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Mari Nicholson |
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Professional title
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Travelwriter and photographer |
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Address |
6 Nunwell Street, PO36 9DE |
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Telephone (day)
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01983 402163 |
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Telephone (evening)
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01983 402163 |
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Fax:
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01983 402163 |
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Mobile
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E-mail
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mari@traveljournalist.co.uk |
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Website 1
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www.maritravel.com |
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Website 2
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http://easiatravel.suite101.com/ |
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Biography |
A freelance travel writer since 1990, Mari writes and supplies images for a variety of newspapers and magazines and the Inflight publications of the major airlines. She is a major contributor to The Island Visitor, the Isle of Wight's yearly Tourist Guide.
Mari is the Feature Writer for East Asia on the Online Travel Magazine www.suite101.com where she posts a weekly article on East Asia plus a blog, as well as contributing to other sections on the site (i.e. luxury hotels, military history, music and other related areas of travel) |
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Main professional activities |
Guest speaker at various writing workshops and seminars and a regular at the Annual Isle of Wight Writers' Weekend. As well as travel articles, she is an experienced interviewer and writes features on culture, history and politics. Her last Travel Writing Workshop was in Spain, for Malaga Workshops, the success of which has led Malaga Workshops to plan another one in the UK and another in Spain's scenic National Parque of Grazalema (two hours from Malaga)in 2010. |
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Memberships |
British Guild of Travel Writers, Writer & Photographers unlimited, Travelwriters.uk, and SWWJ |
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Awards |
Runner-up in the Travelex Travel Writers Award for Consumer Travel in
1999, winner of the SWWJ Lady Violet Astor Award for Journalism, Winner in 1999, 2000 and 2002 of the Wight Writers' Award.
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Most recent publications |
Apollo, Sunjet, Living Abroad, Open Skies, BBC History, Isle of Wight Visitor, Property Buyer (Thailand), Contributed features to Body & Soul Spa Guide to the world, Contributed to D.K's coffee table book Where to go When (August 2007) and to the upcoming 1,001 Places to see Before you Die to be published late summer 2009. |
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Other important publications |
The Scotsman, Take a Break, Sawasdee, Daily Express, Woodcarving Magazine, Peak (Singapore glossy), Online guide to Fuerteventura for Time Out, Updated Seville guide for D.K. |
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Areas of particular interest or expertise |
Thailand and S.E. Asia, Northern Ireland and S.E. England, Dubai, Spain, Italy, Madeira, Jordan, Chicago, New Orleans, San Franscisco. |
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Other relevant information |
Has an M.Phil in History and is a regular visitor to the War Graves of World Wars I & II (France and Turkey) as well as the graves on the River Kwai in Thailand on which she has written many articles.
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