Travel Writer, Photographer & Communicator
Sue Farley – Freelance Writer, New Zealand
I have been a writer, a photographer and crafter of stories. I sometimes still am.
Award-winning writer and photographer working in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific. Specialising in travel, marine, eco-tourism, conservation, cultural and ethnic themes, architecture and tourism industry writing. Travel guides, ESOL texts, language CDs and web audio scripts prepared.
Local Availability: New Zealand and Australia, mostly, but anywhere by arrangement. Also available for commissioned writing for SEO enhancement.
Media Experience
Print; Web; Audio
Biographical Note
Included author in 2012 new release ‘Home & Away’ – a collection of 30 award-winning travel stories by New Zealand writers from the last 20 years
Writer, photographer and editor of the second Morrison Street Cafe Cookbook – 2012
Winner of ‘Best Article about New Zealand’ in the 2005 NZ Travel Writer of the Year Awards
Winner of ‘Best Article about New Zealand’ in the 2002 NZ Travel Writer of the Year Awards
Finalist in ‘Best Article about the Travel Industry’ in the 2000 NZ Travel Writer of the Year Awards
Fodors NZ Guidebook update for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010-11 and 2012 editions
Editor/writer for Nelson Regional Arts Guidebook Art in its Own Place, 2007-2008 edition
Record conservation and eco-tourism operations in remote northern Cape York, Australia, 2006
Update writer for Conde Nast's on-line travel guide Concierge.com all of South Island, NZ 2006
Research writer for Fishers SOS travel guides Auckland and Wellington, 2007
Research/writer for new Nelson Provincial Museum, NZ, 2005
Judge for ADNZ Design and Architecture Awards 2003 Nelson region
I welcome commissions for magazine and newspaper articles, website copy, blog posts, travel guides and yearbooks, guidebook updates, PR material and freelance assignments. I also write audio scripts for website downloads, language CDs and a wide variety of ESOL texts for publication in Asia.
Writing is my passion – whether it is travel writing, boating or sea stories, architecture and art, cuisine, health, indigenous and exotic culture or guidebook work. My experience in all these fields means I provide a well-written, thoroughly researched article or piece that meets the required guidelines. My writing can be either tightly focused on a single angle or, like a wide-angled photo, full of colour and example. I can provide high quality images with my articles.
With regular articles and pieces appearing in over 80 publications and websites around the world my portfolio is of a high quality and well read.
Published Writing
In addition to those publications listed above in Biographical Notes, publications which have published my work include, The Listener (NZ), Outback (Australia), Next (NZ), Sunday Star Times (NZ), Sunday Mail (Australia), Weekend Australian, The West Australian, Sportdiving (Australia), Pacific Yachting (Canada), Vogue Living (Australia), Dive NZ, The Club (HK), Silver Kris (Singapore Airlines), Signature (NZ), Heritage NZ, AA Directions (NZ), Southern Skies, (NZ), NZ House and Garden, Malaysian Business, North & South (NZ), Australian House & Garden, NZ Womans Weekly, Destinations (NZ), Porthole (USA), Alfresco (NZ), NZ Home and Entertaining, NZ Fitness, Port Focus NZ, New Impact (UK), NZ School Journals, Going Places (HK), Asia Spa (HK), AA Traveller (NZ), NZ Geographic, Dive Australasia , NZ Herald, The Press (NZ), Dominion Post (NZ), Your Home and Garden (NZ), Pacific Wave (Air NZ), Manhattan Press (HK), Wild Tomato (NZ), One Smile (NZ), NZ Yoga Scene.
Yearbooks include – Outback Travel Guide 2000, 2001, 2002 (Aust), Year of the Outback (Aust), Holland America Wellkom 2002, 2006/2007, 2010 (USA), Cunard Line 2008 (USA), Dive NZ 2006
Contact Sue by phone – 021 555836
email sue@travelgallery.co.nz