Local Guide & Expat Publications
Local guides and expat writing, published as complete works with the writer's own experience of a place behind them.
At a Glance
- • Focus: Writing about places, local knowledge and life abroad, published in full.
- • Includes: Local guides, expat writing, travel memoir, and place-based journalism.
- • Who it's for: Writers with first-hand knowledge of a place and a story worth telling about it.
Most platforms give you a listicle: five things to do, nothing else. This is not that. Every piece here comes with the writer's own experience of a place — what it is really like to live there, not just visit. If you have got local knowledge or an expat life worth telling properly, this is where it gets published.
Why Publish Here
Your story stays yours
Published under your name, with your own words, not just a listicle.
Any place welcome
One neighbourhood or a whole life abroad, wherever the story is set.
Free to publish
Same platform as our fiction and travel authors. No fees, no gatekeeping.
What Can You Publish?
Local Guides
Deep, lived-in guides to a place, published as complete works.
Expat Blogs and Diaries
Ongoing or collected accounts of life abroad.
Place Essays
Reflective writing on what it means to live somewhere, not just visit.
Who Is This Platform For?
- Locals with deep knowledge of a place worth publishing properly
- Expats with a life abroad worth telling as a complete story
- Writers with a blog's worth of place writing worth a proper home
- Anyone with local or expat experience worth a wider readership
Become a Local Guide or Expat Author
One guide worth telling properly, or years of life abroad, if you have got a place story worth telling, we want to publish it.