Solas Awards Winners Named

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.01.12 | 11:38 AM ET

Travelers’ Tales’ editors announced the winners of the sixth annual Solas Awards for travel writing this morning.

The grand prize winner was Peter Wortsman, for his story Protected. Erin Byrne won the silver for Spirals: Memoirs of a Celtic Soul. The bronze went to Bruce Berger for Mysterious Fast Mumble.

The complete list of winners can be found here. Congrats to everyone.

Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.

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