World Hum Stories Win Lowell Thomas Awards

Congratulations to Catherine Watson and Frank Bures, whose World Hum stories were selected as Lowell Thomas Silver Award winners today in the Society of American Travel Writers’ travel writing competition. Watson, whose latest story for World Hum appears today, won in the best Internet travel article category for Unlocking Beirut. Bures’s How to Use a Squat Toilet was honored in the service-oriented consumer article category.

Other World Hum contributors honored include Tom Haines (Travel Journalist of the Year), Tony Perrottet (Bronze, Magazine Article on U.S./Canada Travel), Rolf Potts (Personal Comment) and Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Best Travel Book).

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Photo of Beirut by Catherine Watson.

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