Hi, writer friends! I’m Britany, and this is Wild Writing.

Wild Writing is a newsletter about place-based nonfiction, from travel essays to environmental journalism and all the planet-curious, climate-conscious meandering between genres.

I often work at the intersection of travel and the environment, so I spend a lot of time thinking about how places shape us and how we, as storytellers, can impact the places we move through. Wild Writing is where I interrogate the journey.

I’ve been a freelance writer, off and on, for nearly two decades. I love it. I hate it. I can’t imagine doing anything else. So this is also a place for getting real about the struggle. Making a living as a writer has never been easy—and it just keeps getting harder. So I like to imagine Wild Writing as an early-aughts coffee shop. You know the vibe: Mismatched mugs. Kinda cluttered. A big old map on the wall. And there’s a long wooden table where we can all sit down together to discuss the distance between the ideas in our heads and the words on the page. Hear the hiss of the espresso machine? Settle in. Let’s talk.

To be perfectly honest, I have more questions than answers when it comes to writing, travel, and how we continue to do both. Which keeps things interesting, I think!

I love to ask other writers how they’re making it work out there. So I also commission essays, and I occasionally interview fellow writers and editors so we can all benefit from each other's collective wisdom.

About Britany

That’s me! I’m the author of multiple Lonely Planet guidebook chapters, including Southern Oregon, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. My work has also been published in Nieman Storyboard, Portland Monthly, Oregon Humanities, Atmos, Fast Company, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and many more.

I recently moved to Connecticut with my husband and toddler daughter. Before that, I spent a decade in Portland, Oregon and a big chunk of my heart is still wandering around the Pacific Northwest.

I’m just a fellow writer, popping up in your inbox to crack a window and let the air in, to encourage you to get out there—to get your writing out there, no matter what. Let’s explore.