Inspiration Travel Writing Contest: And The Winner Is

 

Thank you to all our writers from our 2013 Inspiration Travel Writing Contest!

Nearly sixty writers from fifteen different countries participated to create over seventy posts on our site!

The writers are from Australia, Belgium, Canada, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Uzbekistan. Click here to read all the entries.

 

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

Our First Place Winner is Rachel Zimmerman Brachman who was born in Canada but now lives in the USA.  Enjoy her article about Alaska, “The Whale and the Trampoline

Our Second Place Winner is JG who was born in South Korea but grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. Enjoy her article about Thailand, “Finding Friendship and Tea Above the Clouds.”

Our Facebook Vagabond Choice Award Winner is Arjun Karun who is from India and wrote about India in a post called, “Kochi and New Year.”

Congratulations to our winners! Thank you to everyone who participated! For our next contest, our esteemed judge, Richard Bangs, will be returning and will be joined by award-winner writer and writing teacher, Amy Friedman.

We really appreciate everyone who shared, tweeted, promoted and participated in our Inspiration Travel Writing Contest. We hope you will join in our Independence Travel Writing Contest with Free Entry and $1,000usd in CASH prizes; enter from May 11 until July 4, 2013.

We look forward to reading more of your stories in our next contest! Happy and Safe Travels.

Lisa Ellen Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times. Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

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