Travelers' Tales News Brief The deadline for this year's Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year is just a few days away. To enter this year's competition, go to BestTravelWriting.com and follow the instructions. As of today, competition is light in the following categories: Adventure Travel Cruise Story Doing Good or the Kindness of Strangers Men's Travel Travel and Shopping Travel and Sports All entries submitted by 12:00 p.m. (24:00) Hawaiian-Aleutian time, September 21 will be eligible. Entries submitted after that time will be entered in next year's competition. The Solas Awards are an annual competition to find the best writing being done about the world today. The Travelers' Tales editors will choose winners in 21 categories ranging from adventure to humor, from destination to memoir, and everything in between. The grand prize category has cash awards of $1,000, $750, and $500 ; all other category winners receive bragging rights, an award certificate and the right to buy all Travelers' Tales books at 50 percent off. Plus, winners may be published in Travelers' Tales books. Check out BestTravelWriting.com for details. Copyright 2014, Travelers' Tales/Solas House, Inc. All rights reserved. Please feel free to post this information on your web site or spread the word in other ways, such as e-mailing this newsletter to a business associate, family member, or friend. Thank you. Travelers' Tales/Solas House, Inc. 2320 Bowdoin Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 |