Kenya/England
“Geographical mobility is fantastic, and I would love to do it often, but it’s the imagination – the power to conjure and feel places without being there – that has truly brought meaning to the word travel for me.”
England
“We will re-imagine the world by increasing the diversity in our images, as well as in the photographers who make them.”
England
“The most powerful travel writing is not so much the art of empirical description as that of the translation of the individual experience into the universal.”
Richard Ali: Africa Editor
Nigeria
“Travel writing is for me a spell that takes me to places with eyes anew, to see myself in spaces familiar and unfamiliar alike and, with Panorama, to bring these delights of my country and all Africa to the world.”
France
“Flash is discipline and generosity, it is to abide by rigid formal rule, and within these bounds, to give one’s absolute best, each word weighed, handpicked.”
Poetry Editor
England
“I believe travel writing is for all of us. Because the world is for all of us. It is indeed a wonder to move, whether near or far.”
England
“Going places: a phrase that implies success, progress, development, reach, potential. Traveling, in other words, is synonymous with life lived to its fullest.”
Julia Knights: Ecology & Conservation Editor
UK
“Travel writing is being awed by nature and feeling compelled to protect it.”
USA
“The best fiction surprises not only the reader but first and foremost the writer herself. Travel enhances this ability and takes me farther into the inner landscapes, knowledge of myself.”
Kenya
USA
“We change the world story by story. Stories create empathy. Empathy changes the world.”
“We travel to understand the world that unfolds before us, we travel to understand ourselves.”
England
“Travel is good for the soul. It is a form of active compassion – for the world, for its peoples and places. It shakes you out of your solipsism, encourages you to experience reality from different perspectives and oft-times reconsider your own. There is more than one way of being in the world. Travel turns ‘human being’ back into a verb.”
USA
“Folks of color are the most traveled people on the planet; every time we leave our houses, we travel.”
Philippines
“When we travel, we make other places present. When we write about traveling, we make ourselves present.”
USA
“Travel is for me a spiritual experience, an opportunity to liberate myself from the person I’m expected to be at home. My outlook shifts, granting me eyes through which to see the world anew.”
India
“Travel writing is a quest for an identity beyond restrictions in an ever changing cultural landscape.”
Robin Hemley: Senior Editor
USA
“Travel is about ambiguity and contradiction, the inability to ever sort out your impressions completely. I see Panorama embracing the contradictions of travel.”
India
“Travel is a space inscribed with the self and culture of a people.”
USA
“My Navajo name means journey to bring out gifts. That is my goal when I’m travelling.”
Richard Oduor Oduku: Senior Editor
Kenya
“Travel writing, for me, is to regain the freedom to see for myself, to drift beyond stifling prescriptions and escape the spectacle of prepackaged news about Africa.”
USA
“Travel gave me the courage to write; feminism, the courage to look differently.”
USA
“Travel allows us to move beyond our own narrow and often self-focused perspective and move through the world with a curious, adventurous,and open heart.”
USA
“Travel writing is about relaying individual experience in a way that speaks to the greater human experience.”
Nigeria
Alton Melvar M. Dapanas: Assistant Nonfiction Editor
Philippines
“Travel writing is merging the inner mental journey—or to borrow from Jerome Bruner, ‘psychic geography’—often imperceptibly into the physical act of travel, the stirrings and searchings of both personal rumination and ethnopolitical analysis, and giving the impression of being on the move and responsive to shifts in weather and consciousness.”
USA
“Too many peoples and places get cropped out of travel narratives, leading to stories so homogenised they aren’t even aware they’re referencing each other instead of the fullness of being.”
Roland Byagaba: Editorial Apprentice
Uganda
USA
“I think the true purpose of traveling is to always carry the places you’ve been inside your many-faceted self, while you deepen and stretch your imagination to understand the many places you’ll never go.”
Wales
“Travel writing is about all kinds of things. Sometimes it’s about you and your experience of the world; other times it’s about being a witness to someone or something else’s existence.”
Shehla Anjum: Contributor
USA
“Travel closes the gaps in our experience and opens our minds to endless possibilities, attainable and unattainable.”
Amy Foster: Copy Editor
USA
Glenda Price: Copy Editor
Mexico
Paula Read: Copy Editor
Switzerland
Shehla Anjum: Contributor
USA
“Travel closes the gaps in our experience and opens our minds to endless possibilities, attainable and unattainable.”
England
“Writing is about rediscovery of the hidden places in yourself, others and your geographical space.”
Dan Richards: Contributor
Wales
“To be the big eye and big ear, to relate new scapes and tell wonderful stories — to do a place justice and share the experience, exuberance and joy of worlds unknown, to beckon on — that’s great travel writing to me.”
Francisco Martinez: Contributor
USA
Anne Moraa: Contributor
Kenya
India
“Travel writing is all about people, places, and beyond: a world without boundaries. As in all forms of writing, it must aspire to wear the mantle of literature: bold, exploratory, sentient.”
Sara Evans: Contributor
England
Lola Akinmade Åkerström: Contributor and Photographer
Sweden
“Travel means listening. Listening to a place … and trying to understand it as best as I can and respecting it in a way that personally links me to it.”
Agnieszka Dale: Contributor
England
Philippines
“We can travel by air, foot, land, water, heart. Sometimes we travel by closing our eyes.”
TA Loeffler: Wandering Editor
Canada
“Travel writing weaves together adventure, metaphor, and the natural world into a universal tapestry of life lessons.”
Indonesia
“Travel allows me to see the world through a different lens, to learn and grow to appreciate the beauty in differences.”
Paul McVeigh: Wandering Editor
Ireland
“Growing up in a Belfast ghetto during the Troubles, physical walls kept us in an open-air prison while poverty, politics and religion built mental ones. Travel was an idea. The idea was escape.”
Cory Lee: Contributor
USA
Grace Loh Prasad: Contributor
USA
Dharmendar Kanwar: Wandering Editor
India
“Travel writing makes you feel special and in control of how and what you discover – you take on multiple roles – part adventurer, part historian and part tourist guide.”
Tina Brobby: Contributor
Canada
Angela Lang: Contributor
Colombia
Eze Ifeanyichukwu Peter: Contributor
Nigeria
Jonathon Engels: Contributor
Mexico
“Travel writing at its best is the chronicling of a journey that resonates beyond the factual, engaging with the nuances that make all parts of the world simultaneously unique and united.”
Susan Ito: Contributor
USA
Elizabeth Enslin: Contributor
USA
“In my travels and writing, I’m drawn to the local and everyday: family life, villages without tourist attractions, community organisations, backyard gardens.”
Germany
“When you’re on the road you see so many things you didn’t expect: you meet people you never expected to meet, and experience moments so breathtaking that you know you’ll have to write about them.”
Michelle Alipao Chikaonda: Contributor
USA
“In travel I discover new versions of myself; in writing about it, those selves are interweaved.”
Kerry Kijewski: Contributor
Canada
Lucy Dureen: Contributor
England
Mary Anne Thomas: Contributor
USA
Christine No: Contributor
USA
Mbizo Chirasha: Contributor
In Exile
Philippines
“Travel and writing require us to be open and listen to understand how everything is connected. Both endeavors remind me that otherness is just a reductive man-made concept.”
USA
“Travelling is inextricable from living, grieving, reading, teaching, and so many other things; not forcing the separation of these experiences increases their potency and poignancy.”
Steven Law: Contributor
USA
“I’m a contemplative adventurer, and my travel writing is about the inner journey as well as the outdoor world.”
Dato Magradze: Wandering Editor
Georgia
“We travel in our adventure every day. It is almost impossible to place a line of the demarcation between the real journey and the imaginative one.”
Jamilah Malika: Contributor
USA
Anis Ibrahim: Contributor
Malaysia
“Good travel writing goes beyond merely describing a place; it digs deep and tells you how the place transformed the writer, and what it means to her.“
Sa’diyya Nesar: Contributor
Hong Kong
Katrina Woznicki: Contributor
USA
“Real travel narrative transcends the physical journey of being somewhere new and exciting, and shows you how we connect to our world.“
Tanya Ward Goodman: Contributor
USA
David Frankel: Contributor
England
Valerie Piro: Contributor
USA
“Travelling and writing mean challenging perceptions. There is a stereotype that people with disabilities, particularly physical ones, never leave their homes. My response is to leave my home with a mission.”
Ky Delaney: Contributor
USA
“Travel writing engages the world the same way my four-year old does: seeking connection with relentless curiosity.“
Noelle de la Paz: Contributor
USA
“To write about travel is to confront the larger forces that shape or limit our movement across oceans, across borders, across town.“
Luke Dumas: Contributor
USA
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Previously on the masthead
Mexico
“Panorama has a dual purpose: to reconstruct literary travel writing and travel photography, one story and image at a time; and to be a publication that represents a modern, complex world.”
Sophie Ibbotson: Former Managing Editor
England/Uzbekistan
“When you read intelligent travel writing, it opens your eyes to the issues which matter. We have a moral responsibility to be well informed about our world – to search, to question, and to analyse. It’s all too easy to disengage and remain within our comfort zone, but then all you’re left with is a blinkered view.”