Budding travel writers urged to submit works for inaugural award

BUDDING young Dervla Murphys and Bill Brysons are to get the chance to display their talents at the country’s foremost travel-writing festival next month.

Lismore, Co Waterford native and award-winning travel writer Dervla Murphy received a second-hand bicycle at the age of 10 and decided a week later she would cycle to India on reaching adulthood — which she did.

Now the organisers of the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing have inaugurated an award for Teenage Travel Writing in her name.