ARTICLES
WEBSITE WORK
PHOTOGRAPHY
BOOKS
AWARDS
SPECIALITIES
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Donna
Dailey writes for national and international newspapers and magazines,
and for websites. Her work has won four prestigious travel writing
awards. She has also written or contributed to 25 guidebooks for major
travel publishers.
Her travels have taken her down the Rio San Juan into Nicaragua’s rain
forest, across the Australian Outback, to ancient sites in Jordan and
Tunisia, and to the game reserves of Kenya and Uganda.
She has hiked across the Rockies and the desert canyons of the American
Southwest, and joined in music sessions in the pubs of Ireland and
Scotland.
Her appetite for food and drink stories has had her eating buffalo in
Denver and billy goat in the Loire Valley, sipping sherry in Spain’s
bodegas, and taken her from the gourmet restaurants of Paris to Valencia
in search of the perfect paella.
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Donna
has a Journalism degree from the University of Northern Colorado. She
speaks basic Spanish. Before moving to London she worked for US
publications and in television. She has been a freelance travel writer
and photographer since 1993, and has worked as a Managing Editor for
Insight Guides. In addition to Travelwriters UK, she is also a member of
the British Guild of Travel Writers and the Outdoor Writers’ Guild.
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ARTICLES
Donna's work has
appeared in The Times,
Daily Mail, Essentially America, CNN Traveller, Holiday magazine, the Independent on Sunday and
Global Adventure, as well as airline and hotel magazines and other
specialist travel publications.
She has won travel writing awards from the British Guild of Travel
Writers and the Visit USA Association for her articles.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Donna takes
photographs for many of her own guidebooks and articles. Her
travel photography has also featured in other travel guides,
including the Time for Food: Venice (cover shot),
the Time for Food: Paris and the National
Geographic Guide to Greece, and in such publications as The
Times, The Observer, Daily Express, Evening Standard,
Wanderlust, Global Adventure, Classic Travel, CNN Traveller and
Essentially America.
Sample photos are displayed on
www.redstart.net/donnadailey.
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WEBSITE WORK
ViaMichelin
www.viamichelin.com
Donna has been a regular contributor to ViaMichelin magazine, a monthly
web publication. One of her features, All Aboard for Bangla Town,
was the first web article to win a major travel writing award (British Guild of Travel Writers
Awards).
Columbus World Travel Guides
www.cityguide.travel-guides.com
Donna wrote the on-line city guides to Los Angeles, New Orleans,
Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Minneapolis-St Paul; and
is co-author of the guides to Denver and Cairo.
MyTravel
www.MyTravel.com
Donna wrote the on-line guides to Malta and Benidorm.
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BOOKS
Donna has written and contributed to guidebooks for major travel
publishers in the UK and US, including Insight Guides, Thomas
Cook, AA Publishing, Dorling Kindersley, Michelin, Berlitz and
Fodor’s. She has also edited various titles and was Managing
Editor on Insight Guides to New York State, Philadelphia and
Montreal. She has also co-authored many titles with Mike Gerrard.
Some recent
titles
Drive Around Ireland
(Thomas Cook 2005)
Drive Around Scotland (Thomas Cook 2005)
The Colours of London (AA, 2005)
The Colours of New York (AA, 2005)
Going Underground Manhattan (Navigator, 2005)
Bloom's Literary Places: London (Chelsea House, 2004)
Insight Pocket Guide
to Denver (APA, 2001)
Eyewitness Travel Guide to Southwest USA (Dorling Kindersley 2001)
Hotspots Malta (Thomas Cook 2001)
Hotspots Costa Blanca (Thomas Cook 2001)
Crete Pocket Guide (Berlitz, 2001)
Athens Pocket Guide (Berlitz, 2001)
Los Angeles Pocket Guide (Berlitz, 2001)
Discover Ireland (Thomas Cook 2000)
Discover Scotland (Thomas Cook 2000)
Co-author with Mike
Gerrard
Top Ten Guide to Paris (Dorling Kindersley, 2005)
Spiral Guide Crete (AA, 2003)
Insight Pocket Guide to Dublin (APA, 2002)
In Your Pocket Guide to Tunis (Michelin, 2002)
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AWARDS
2003:
British Guild of Travel Writers Award
for Best Overseas Feature: Lost Luggage Heaven
published in Essentially America magazine
2003: British Guild of Travel Writers Award
for Best UK Feature:The National Railway Museum: Steaming
Into History
published in ViaMichelin web magazine
2002: British Guild of Travel Writers Award
for Best UK Feature Under 850 Words:
All Aboard for Bangla Town
[READ THIS ARTICLE]
published in ViaMichelin web magazine
2001: Visit USA (UK) Media Award
for Excellence in Specialist Travel Magazine Journalism:
Essentially Philadelphia
published in Essentially America magazine
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SPECIALITIES
Specialist knowledge of London, Spain, Ireland, Greece (especially
Crete) and USA. Donna also has a large photo
library of these and many other destinations.
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BY DONNA
DAILEY -
EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
In Search of the Perfect Paella
There is only one meal that makes a trip to Spain complete:
paella. As far as the British are concerned, this mixture of rice,
chicken and seafood with the odd bit of veg thrown in is Spain’s
national dish. But in a land where regional gastronomy is taken
very seriously, Spaniards wring their hands at this notion. For
true paella comes from Valencia — everything else is just rice.
Read full article
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All Aboard for Bangla Town
If you thought fish and chips was Britain's favourite dish,
think again. A recent survey showed it is actually chicken tikka
massala. And there's no better place to eat it than the famous
curry houses of Brick Lane.
Read full article
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CONTACT
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EXAMPLES OF
PUBLISHED WORK
Scotland
Australia
Donna receives her BGTW award, 2003 |