BATW members did well in the 2023 Travelers’ Tales SOLAS Awards:
Rosie Cohan’s “Reconciliation” won a silver in the Travel and Healing category.
Laurie McAndish King‘s “The Treatment of Dead Enemies” won a gold in the Most Unforgettable Character category; her “Chindogu and the Origin of the Selfie Stick” won a bronze in Travel and Shopping; and her “Metamorphosis in La Guácima” won an honorable mention.
MJ Pramik’s “Down in the Mine” won a silver in the Travel and the Environment category; her “Food for Thought” won a bronze in the Travel and Food category.
Alec Scott’s “The Last Days of Butterfly Town” won a gold in the Travel and the Environment category. He credits a great editor on the piece, Katie O’Reilly. “Turns out the Pacific Grove local who’s spent the last 30 years observing the butterflies was right — they’d be back — and many of the experts (“The Western Migration is over”) were wrong. Not that the butterflies are out of danger,” he said. “Bigger picture: The piece speaks to the Insect Apocalypse — Monarchs being particularly charismatic representatives of the struggling pollinators.”
Anne Sigmon’s “In the Garden of the Fox” won a gold in the Travel and Healing category.
Erin Deinzer published her story on Slovenia as a destination for meetings in the industry publication BizBash.
Lina Broydo published two articles in March, one in LaOferta, the #1 Spanish bilingual publication in the U.S. and
one in Kstati, the online site for Russian American news and views.
one in Kstati, the online site for Russian American news and views.
Ginny Prior published an article on Merced- the Gateway to Yosemite – in the online version of the Mercury News and East Bay Times in March.