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Q: Can I reproduce any photographs, illustrations or text from this website?
A: Not without contacting us at HeyAmerican@gmail.com for permission.

Q: Do you accept submissions?
A: Drop us a line if you’ve got something interesting - we love photo essays.

Q: What are the guidelines?
A: We generally focus on the experience of Americans outside the United States, but we welcome whatever you want to throw our way. Send us the best photos and the most polished writing you have, and we’ll see what we can do.

Q: Do you pay for submissions?
A: Let’s talk about paid travel writing for a minute. It doesn’t really, actually, technically exist. You’ve got to be a real hotshot to get anybody to pay you to hear about your fantastic time in Cancun or that killer trip you took from Mostar to Sarajevo. Yes, we know it’s not fair, and yes, we know fifteen-sixteenths of all that stuff in newspapers and magazines is pure crap, but that’s how the cookie crumbles. So no, we don’t pay. We can’t. We’re all people with other jobs simply enjoying the fact that we have a non-corporate outlet for our updates. The most we can offer you is a solid reference when it comes interview time. And by the way, don’t trust anybody who claims to be a paid travel writer - they’re either lying, trying to cover up the fact that they’ve sacrificed their dreams for corporate servitude, or Paul Theroux.

Q: How do I become a HeyAmerican.com correspondent?
A: You’ve got be consistently published - did you hear we love photo essays?

Q: What’s your favorite/least favorite destination?
A: It’s all relative, isn’t it? One traveler’s Eiffel Tower is another’s Chisinau Airport.

Q: You completely blew it when you disparaged Tajikistan (or Transdniestria, or Serbia, or the Eiffel Tower). What’s your problem?
A: This site is a collection of articles by various contributors. The most effective way of combating derogatory opinions about your loved places is to write an article convincing us otherwise. Same goes the other way around, like if you absolutely thought Dublin is rotten or Sweden a waste of time.