ABOUT RHONDA CARRIER
Creative Projects
With her 'travel wife' Tracey Davies, Rhonda writes the Wayward Wimmin Substack about travel and life post-50. The pair are also working a non-fiction book project to be announced in due course, and a related podcast is currently in development.
Rhonda's first published short story, ‘St Wilgefortis Blues’, won the Jack Trevor Story Memorial Prize after appearing in Neonlit: the Time Out Book of New Writing II (Penguin) in 2000, and her story 'Night-fishing' won 2nd place in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2016. Other short fiction has appeared in Image magazine, the Time Out Book of London Short Stories (Penguin), The Flash (Social Disease), Paint a Vulgar Picture: Stories Inspired by the Smiths (Serpent's Tail), '68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution (Salt Publishing), and The French Literary Review.
Translator
Rhonda is currently translating Emma Becker's highly acclaimed novel La Maison from French to English.
She is also a commercial translator of tourism and other marketing materials including websites and brochures (for Agence Savoie Mont Blanc, Designerbox and Revol Porcelain, among others).
Literary Consultant
Rhonda reviewed new books for Time Out magazine, assessed fiction and non-fiction manuscripts for Cornerstones literary advisory for more than five years, and was a consultant on fiction plus travel, memoirs and other non-fiction for the publisher Gibson Square, including the best-selling works of Helena Frith-Powell.
Travel Writer, Lifestyle Writer and Editor
A leading UK travel expert, Rhonda has written for publications as diverse as National Geographic Traveller, The Guardian, Condé Nast Traveller, Metro, Country Life, Red Online, Good Housekeeping, Platinum, Travel Weekly, Culture Trip, Easyjet Traveller, The Observer, Metro, The Telegraph, Lonely Planet, Prima, The South China Morning Post, Thomas Cook Travel, Delta Sky, JetAway, Family Traveller, Selling Travel, Travel Trade Gazette, Food and Travel and Insider Picardy, and has authored and edited travel and guide books for Rizzoli, Frommer's, Time Out, Fodor's and Lonely Planet among others.
Rhonda also regularly writes about food (restaurants and cookery), healthy, the environment, education, books, families, lifestyle and interiors for the likes of The Guardian, The Telegraph, Time Out and The Evening Standard.
She is also commissioning editor and main writer for the leading family travel website TakeTheFamily.com. She was features editor for the Time Out Manchester pop-up magazine, commissioning editor for the charity Kids in Museums, and the family travel expert for P&O Ferries, and has discussed family travel issues on Radio 4's Woman's Hour and other radio shows. She has appeared as a guest editor at Dea Birkett's Travel Writing Workshops and was a volunteer for the children's holiday charity CHICKS.
Copywriting and Marketing Support
Rhonda has also assisted companies and institutions with marketing and brand storytelling, including the Manchester International Festival, Homeaway, WeWork, Thomas Cook, Mark Warner Holidays, Marks & Spencer Bank, Atout France, Picardie Tourism, Visit England and MOVES Guides, and was an editorial consultant for Luxury Family Hotels. She has contributed to the Carrier luxury travel magazine (no relation!) and other Carrier publications, and she was a copywriting consultant and remains the copywriter for Travel Counsellors.
Travel PR
Rhonda's travel PR work has included highly successful campaigns for onefinestay and Suffolk Secrets, and social media and press and parent relations for takethefamily.com, and she has also worked on travel apps and other travel material for Google. She was a senior consultant for Aviareps UK, for clients including Agence Savoie Mont Blanc, Croatia National Tourist Board and Lithuania, and now works with Angie Sloan of Sloane Squared on the One Traveller account.
Rhonda can be contacted at rhonda.carrier@takethefamily.com or followed on twitter or Instagram.