Hurrah for our very successful BATW Awards Presentations on February 20. Updates on our website and ezine, and looking forward to our March 20 program on Branding and Marketing as well as our many exciting programs throughout 2010, with even a spectacular holiday party already scheduled. – -...

Many thanks, again, to all the judges (whose names are listed below) and to Karen Misuraca and her expert crew of Patricia Arrigoni, Lee Daley and Stephanie Levin for putting together such a fine awards contest.  Thanks also to everyone who submitted articles and photographs, even if your name didn’t...

The Power of Travel Writing Gaia Hotel and Spa in Napa hosts our April 17 meeting, which will be a panel of experts discussing the power of travel writers to influence travelers and tourists in becoming aware of cultures and making responsible choices for destinations, lodgings, activities and more. More...

I am delighted that Ginny Prior and Georgia Hesse have agreed to become the new BATW Editorial Board.  Both Georgia and Ginny have extensive experience as writers and editors so I am very pleased to have them available to help when editorial questions arise on the ezine/newsletter/website.  (In the...

Find Your Niche, Build Your Platform and Establish Your Brand March 20 at 10 a.m. Books Inc. at Opera Plaza in San Francisco Marketing is essential for any writer in this day and age; but even more so for travel writers. Even if you don’t have a book or product to sell, you can still use branding...

Congratulations to the photography winners in the 2010 BATW Writing & Photography Awards.  Scroll down to see their beautiful photographs below: Best Newspaper or Magazine Travel Photograph: GOLD – John Montgomery [Zip Line, Honduras Island Hopping -- from the Southgate (MI) News-Herald] ...

Laurie McAndish King's "Hidden Frog" photo, a finalist in "Smithsonian" magazine's 2010 photo contest (photo © Laurie McAndish King) Major congratulations to Laurie McAndish King, whose photo titled Hidden Frog is a finalist in Smithsonian magazine’s 7th annual photo...

BATW is pleased to point out that two BATW members, Diane LeBow and April Orcutt, won awards in this year’s Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards: Women’s Travel: The best account by a woman of an encounter or experience on the road Gold : “At Home in Afghanistan” by Diane LeBow Doing...

Congratulations to Emma Krasov, who won a NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) Award of Merit in the 2009 annual awards competition in the Travel Blog category for her blog, Art and Entertain Me: www.artandentertainme.blogspot.com.  This awards competition, now in its 18th year, honors...

Congratulations to Dick Jordan, who tells us that his “Tales Told From the Road on SFGate.com” is now a “Featured Blog” in the Travel category for “Community Blogs” on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website. He says it was one of the top ten SFGate.com reader-created blogs in January, 2010....