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....

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for telling us about the exciting things Chris Baker has been doing: Christopher P. Baker recently returned from escorting two cruise-tours of Costa Rica and Panama for National Geographic Expeditions.

BATW member Karen Kefauver of Santa Cruz continues to write about adventure travel and endurance sports while launching a new social media blog, http://socialmediawithkaren.blogspot.com.

Here’s some workshop information from Carla King and Lisa Alpine: We won’t make you do sit-ups at the next Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workshop: Ten Steps to Self-Publishing Success on May 1. BATW members get a $15 discount for this all-day workshop with Lisa Alpine and Carla King.

Time is running out to register for Kathryn Abajian’s writing workshop — Italy, in Other Words — in the medieval fortified hill town of Santo Stefano di Sessanio in Italy from June 13-19, 2010.  There are only a few spots left (but contact her even if the website says the deadline...

Lee Foster (lee@fostertravel.com) has released his second travel app in the Apple iTunes App Store.  The title is DC Travel Photo Guide ($1.99).  The direct link into the app store is http://sutromedia.com/apps/DC_Travel_Photo_Guide. The app, viewable on iPhones, assists users to create and collect...