Lois Pryce knows what it takes to be a fun, fearless female...
Cosmopolitan
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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The Red Bulletin – September 2022
Petrolettes: Take a ride with Europe’s biggest women’s motorcycle festival
The Observer – November 2021
We’ll miss the roar, but electric motorbikes can’t kill our road romance
The Guardian (UK) – November 2020
Stanfords travel bookshop launches crowdfunding project as it fights for survival
The Telegraph (UK) – January 2020
We in the West have been misled – the isolation of Iran is a tragedy for travellers
Overland Journal (USA) – Summer 2019
Our favorite Brit, Lois Pryce, discusses a piece of Classic Kit she wonʼt leave home without.
The Telegraph (UK) – February 2019
How a band of rebel slaves defied the British and built paradise in the rainforest
The Telegraph (UK) – July 2017
The road less travelled: Why this is the best driving holiday in Italy
The Guardian (UK) – January 2017
A motorcycling adventure across Iran: ‘the standout attraction is the people’
The Independent (UK) – February 2016
The art of picnicking in Iran. Iran has a lot more in common with Britain than you might think.
The Independent (UK) – November 2015
Kill Your Friends is less drama than documentary, says ex-music executive
The Independent (UK) – August 2015
My first psychobilly gig: The Klub Foot, The Meteors, and a thousand DMs
The Guardian (UK) – August 2015
Spiky, spicy, wild … arriba! Mexico’s Baja California is bliss for Lois Pryce
The Independent (UK) – April 2015
Record Store Day: Remembering an era when buying and selling discs were labours of love
The Independent (UK) – January 2015
Reese Witherspoon in ‘Wild’: An all too rare story of a woman on a solo adventure
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
The Guardian (UK) – July 2013
How two Iranian brothers created one of the world’s first travel documentaries
Overland Journal (USA) – Spring 2010
Lois Pryce relates the astonishing journey of Theresa Wallach and Florence Blenkiron
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
Adventure Motorcycling Handbook
Contributions on adventure riding for women and early pioneers of adventure motorcycling