We won!

Laurie McAndish King January 24th, 2008

Members of The Itinerants won multiple prizes in the Bay Area Travel Writers Best Travel Writing competition. Results were announced on Saturday, January 19.

Newspaper Travel Articles: In this category, judged by Catharine Hamm (Travel Editor for the Los Angeles Times) and Georgia Hesse (award-winning travel writer; 19-year Travel Editor, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle), winners were:

  • Bill Fink: Gold Award for Accidentally Enjoying Albania, (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Laurie King: Silver Award for Of Lemurs and Leeches, (San Francisco Chronicle Magazine) and Bronze Award for The Anti-Ugly American (San Francisco Chronicle Magazine)

Travel-Related Essay/Article in an Anthology: In this category, judged by Kathryn Ettinger (Senior Editor, Moon Handbooks; Series Manager, Avalon Travel Publishing) and Carol Canter (travel journalist; Gold Award winner, Magazine Travel Article BATW Best 2005), we had another winner:

  • Constance Hale: Silver Award for Cutouts: the Night Once Had a Thousand Eyes (Travelers’ Tales: The Best Travel Writing 2006)

Magazine Travel Article: Judges Al Bonowitz (Features Editor, Westways/Hawaii Westways) and Don George, (Editor, RECCE: Literary Journeys for the Discerning Traveler; former Travel Editor, Salon Wanderlust; former Travel Editor, San Francisco Examiner) chose:

  • Constance Hale: Gold Award for Last of the Waimea Cowboys (National Geographic Adventure)

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