David got started on his research early…. Photo courtesy of David Page.
The annual Society of American Travel Writers convention was held last week in Guadalajara, Mexico. Though he was chopping wood in chilly northern California, Matador’s contributing editor David Page received some good news from south of the border.
Each year for the past 25 years, the Society of American Travel Writers has sponsored a travel journalism contest that has become the premier competition in this field. The Lowell Thomas Awards, named for a radio and print journalist who made his media reputation as a globe-trotting correspondent, are considered to be travel writing’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.