Writing Portfolio

Sue Farley
Award-winning travel writer and photographer working in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific. Specialising in travel, marine, eco-tourism, conservation, 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

Media Experience
Print; Web; Audio

Biographical Note

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 and 2011 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 Nasts 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
Sue welcomes commissions for magazine and newspaper articles, travel yearbooks, travel guides and guidebook updates, PR material and web copy assignments. She also writes audio scripts for web-site downloads, language CDs and a wide variety of ESOL texts for publication in Asia.

Writing is Sue’s passion – whether it is travel writing, boating or sea stories, architecture and art, cuisine, indigenous and exotic culture or guidebook work. Her experience in all these fields means she provides a well-written, thoroughly researched article or piece that meets the required guidelines. Her writing can be either tightly focused on a single angle or, like a wide-angled photo, full of colour and example. She can provide high quality images with her articles.

With regular articles and pieces appearing in over 80 publications and websites around the world her portfolio is of a high quality and well read.

Published Writings
In addition to those publications listed above in Biographical Notes, publications which have published Sue’s 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).

Yearbooks include – Outback Travel Guide 2000, 2001, 2002 (Aust), Year of the Outback (Aust), Holland America Wellkom 2002, 2006/2007 (USA), Cunard Line 2008 (USA), Dive NZ 2006