Solas Awards deadline Sept. 21

Travelers' Tales News Brief TravelersTales.com  |  September 16, 2011 Solas Awards Deadline September 21 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: Animal Encounter Cruise Story Doing Good or the Kindness of Strangers Elder Travel Love Story Men's Travel Travel and Healing Travel and Shopping Travel and Sports Young Traveler All entries submitted before midnight, September 21 will be eligible. Entries submitted after that 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 a copy of the most recent edition of The Best Travel Writing or The Best Women's Travel Writing. Plus, winners may be published in Travelers' Tales books. Check out BestTravelWriting.com for details of the awards and more. New! The Best Travel Writing 2011 Recently published and now available everywhere, The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writingfrom Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. Get your copy today. Fall Writing Workshop with Larry Habegger As he does each autumn, TT Executive Editor Larry Habegger is organizing an advanced personal writing workshop in San Francisco. The series of classes will run seven consecutive weeks beginning October 2 and ending November 16. The meetings are once a week, two hours, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at 4th and Townsend Streets, across the street from the Caltrain station, a short block from the Muni Metro stop and several bus lines, and for those who drive, free street parking is usually easy to find. The group will be a minimum of six people and a maximum of ten. In the first session you'll get acquainted, talking about your experience, your goals, and, of course, the material you're working on. In the six subsequent sessions you'll work on your stories in depth. Each week half the group will send a story to everyone for all to read in advance so you can be prepared for discussion in class. This way, each participant gets three stories worked on over the seven weeks, and has the benefit of critiquing everyone else's pieces. For more information, contact Larry at larry@travelerstales.com. Copyright 2011, Travelers' Tales, 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, Inc. 853 Alma Street Palo Alto, CA 94301