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I’m a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in the UK and the USA, writing both long-form and news items on topics from travel and adventure to music, books and extraordinary real-life stories. I am also a contributing editor to Overland Journal and the former travel editor of Bike Magazine.

Below is a selection of my recent articles and features, as well as a list of anthologies that include my writing. Click on each image to expand and read.

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Lois Pryce writes about musical holidays in The Guardian

The Guardian – September 2023
Perfect Harmony –  six musical holidays in Britain and Europe

Guardian journalist Lois Pryce writes about Joanna Barthorpe discovering motorbiking after 60

The Guardian – August 2023
Lois Pryce interviews Joanna Barthorpe about her new start after sixty

Article by author Lois Pryce about "The best books to understand modern Iran"

Shepherd – 2023
The best books to understand modern Iran

Online article by journalist Lois Pryce about the Petrolettes women motorbike festival

The Red Bulletin – September 2022
Petrolettes: Take a ride with Europe’s biggest women’s motorcycle festival

Guardian article by travel journalist Lois Pryce about the Malverns in England

The Guardian – December 2021
Seeking solace in the hills: why the Malverns are perfect for walking

Observer article by female travel writer Lois Pryce about electric motorbikes

The Observer – November 2021
We’ll miss the roar, but electric motorbikes can’t kill our road romance

Royal Literary Fund article by motivational speaker Lois Pryce about reading through Long Covid

Royal Literary Fund – October 2021
Reading and writing through Long Covid

Guardian article by adventure journalist Lois Pryce about travel guidebooks

The Guardian – March 2021
The travel guidebooks we still love

Guardian article about travel song playlists by adventure author Lois Pryce

The Guardian – February 2021
Songs from a desert hut in the Sahara to a pick-up truck in Alaska

Guardian article by Lois Pryce about Stanfords bookshop

The Guardian (UK) – November 2020
Stanfords travel bookshop launches crowdfunding project as it fights for survival

Telegraph newspaper article by Lois Pryce about travel in Iran

The Telegraph (UK) – January 2020
We in the West have been misled – the isolation of Iran is a tragedy for travellers

Overland Journal article by adventure author Lois Pryce about tea

Overland Journal (USA) – Summer 2019
Our favorite Brit, Lois Pryce, discusses a piece of Classic Kit she wonʼt leave home without.

Telegraph newspaper article by Lois Pryce about a band of rebel slaves

The Telegraph (UK) – February 2019
How a band of rebel slaves defied the British and built paradise in the rainforest

Telegraph article by female adventurer Lois Pryce about walking in the Sinai desert

The Daily Telegraph (UK) – February 2019
Learning to walk like an Egyptian

Overland Journal article by female travel writer Lois Pryce about the Sinai desert

Overland Journal (USA) – Fall 2018
Shway-shway on the Sinai Trail

Sawdays article by female travel writer Lois Pryce about driving around France in a 2CV

Sawdays (UK) – August 2018
Lois Pryce’s French 2CV adventure

Telegraph article by travel writer Lois Pryce about driving in Italy

The Telegraph (UK) – July 2017
The road less travelled: Why this is the best driving holiday in Italy

Guardian article by female adventurer Lois Pryce about motorcycling in Iran

The Guardian (UK) – January 2017
A motorcycling adventure across Iran: ‘the standout attraction is the people’

iNews article by female travel writer Lois Pryce about motorcycling in Iran

iNews (UK) – January 2017
The Girl on a Motorcycle – in Iran

Guardian article by travel journalist Lois Pryce about Lanzarote

The Guardian (UK) – July 2016
A Bond-style bar in Lanzarote? Get groovy at the Mirador del Río

Independent article by Lois Pryce about picnicking in Iran

The Independent (UK) – February 2016
The art of picnicking in Iran. Iran has a lot more in common with Britain than you might think.

Independent article by Lois Pryce about drama Kill Your Friends

The Independent (UK) – November 2015
Kill Your Friends is less drama than documentary, says ex-music executive

Independent article by author Lois Pryce about her first psychobilly gig

The Independent (UK) – August 2015
My first psychobilly gig: The Klub Foot, The Meteors, and a thousand DMs

Independent article by female adventurer Lois Pryce about hitching and the Adventure Travel Film Festival

The Independent (UK) – August 2015
Hitching is as much an adventure as a cheap form of travel

Guardian article by travel journalist Lois Pryce about Baja, Mexico

The Guardian (UK) – August 2015
Spiky, spicy, wild … arriba! Mexico’s Baja California is bliss for Lois Pryce

Independent article by motorcycle adventurer Lois Pryce about Yvonne Stagg and her wall of death

The Independent (UK) – June 2015
Yvonne Stagg and the Wall of Death: The Queen of Dreamland

Overland Journal article by Iran travel writer Lois Pryce about the Omidvar brothers

Overland Journal (USA) – Summer 2015
The 10-year journey of Iran’s Omidvar brothers

Independent newspaper article by after dinner speaker Lois Pryce about Record Store Day

The Independent (UK) – April 2015
Record Store Day: Remembering an era when buying and selling discs were labours of love

Telegraph article by female adventure speaker Lois Pryce about travel as a solo woman

Telegraph (UK) – February 2015
Travel as a solo woman: 10 lessons for the intrepid

Independent article by Lois Pryce about solo women adventurers

The Independent (UK) – January 2015
Reese Witherspoon in ‘Wild’: An all too rare story of a woman on a solo adventure

CNN article by travel journalist Lois Pryce about Land Rovers

CNN (USA) – September 2014
Is this the world’s most ‘British’ vacation?

Independent newspaper article by Lois Pryce about the Adventure Travel Film Festival

The Independent (UK) – August 2014
Adventure Travel Film Festival: Films we’ve screened are about as tough as it gets when it comes to pitting man against nature

CNN article by Lois Pryce about travelling through Iran on a motorcycle

CNN (USA) – July 2014
What’s it like to motorcycle solo through Iran as a woman?

Guardian article by Lois Pryce about the Omidvar brothers from Iran

The Guardian (UK) – July 2013
How two Iranian brothers created one of the world’s first travel documentaries

New York Times book excerpt from "Red tape and White Knuckles" by female motorcycle adventurer Lois Pryce

New York Times – May 2013
Excerpt from “Red Tape and White Knuckles”

Overland Journal article by travel journalist Lois Pryce about Tom Sheppard and his adventures in the Sahara

Overland Journal (USA) – Spring 2012
My interview with Saharan explorer, Tom Sheppard MBE

Overland Journal article by woman adventurer Lois Pryce about motorcyclist Robert Fulton

Overland Journal (USA) – Spring 2011
Robert Fulton’s solo motorcycle circumnavigation

Overland Journal article by female adventurer Lois Pryce about Theresa Wallach and Florence Blenkiron and their travels by motorbike

Overland Journal (USA) – Spring 2010
Lois Pryce relates the astonishing journey of Theresa Wallach and Florence Blenkiron

Overland Journal article by female adventure writer Lois Pryce about Wally Byam

Overland Journal (USA) – Winter 2010
Airstream founder, Wally Byam’s life of adventure

Lois’ work appears in the following collections:

In Search of Sheba
Reprint of a lost travel classic by intrepid 1950s Land Rover adventurer, Barbara Toy

Front cover of book "Wild Women and their amazing adventures" with a contribution from female travel writer Lois Pryce

Wild Women
Edited by Mariella Frostrup

The Kindness of Strangers - an anthology of stories with woman travel writer Lois Pryce as contributor

The Kindness of Strangers
Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow

Motorcycle Messengers - an anthology of travel writing with female adventurer Lois Pryce as contributor

Motorcycle Messengers
Tales from the Road by Writers who Ride

The Adventure Motorcycling Handbook by Chris Scott with female motorcycle adventurer Lois Pryce as contributor

Adventure Motorcycling Handbook
Contributions on adventure riding for women and early pioneers of adventure motorcycling