Photo by: Jorge Santiago Photography
Glimpse is a space for long-form travel writing that attempts to move beyond the facile, the superficial, and the descriptive to get at the myriad complexities of travel: at its capacity to spur curiosity, challenge entrenched ways of seeing, trouble complacency, and create empathy across vast cultural and physical distances.
Glimpse is where emerging writers, journalists, photographers and filmmakers can find editorial support and funding to develop their storytelling voices, skills, and interests. Glimpse Correspondents get the opportunity to work one-on-one with an editor to shepherd their stories from pitches and rough drafts into feature narratives and essays, photo documentaries, and multi-media projects.
Glimpse is powered by Matador Network, an integrated media platform of websites, a social network, a print magazine, and a new media school that aspires to create positive change and connection via ground-level travel writing and photography. Matador reaches millions of people each month, and Glimpse Correspondents, whose work is published on Matador, find a wide and enthusiastic audience for their stories and can cultivate a solid readership base for their future work as travel writers and photographers.
What does Glimpse do?
Each fall and spring, Glimpse selects 10 correspondents. These correspondents are writers, photographers, and/or filmmakers with an exceptional eye for unique, under-reported, and compelling stories told with great detail and even greater humility. Correspondents work with Glimpse editor in chief Sarah Menkedick to develop a portfolio of highly polished, professional work, which is then published on Matador. Correspondents are asked to blog about the editorial process – the challenges they face while writing, reporting, and documenting stories, the way their stories change and cohere through multiple drafts, their breakthrough moments and blocks – on the Glimpse website, creating a transparent, behind-the-scenes narrative to accompany the stories they publish on Matador.
