WRITERS & EDITORS
AWARDS
Congratulations to Rachel Dickinson, Author of The Loneliest Places
Winner/ First Place Memoir
National PEN Women’s 2024 Biennial Letter Competition
“Gold Medal winner from Foreward INDIES for autobiography and memoir, 2023; Best Memoir from ASJA, 2023; winner for best memoir from the National League of American Pen Women, 2023
Read about Rachel and her books at https://www.racheldickinson.com/about
Congratulations to Julia Cosgrove, Editor-in-Chief, AFAR
Winner/ 2023 SATW Lowell Thomas Competition
Best Travel Magazine
Congratulations to Jim Gladstone
Winner: 2023
The Association of LGBTQ+
Journalists Award
For Excellence in Travel Writing
Read Jim’s story
“A Postcard From Berlin“
In Passport Magazine where
Jim is Senior Editor
Travel Classics wishes to congratulate the many conference attendees who are among the
2023 winners of the SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas AWARDS
NEWS
Congratulations to Patrick Perry for being named Editor in Chief of the Saturday Evening Post, America’s oldest magazine. More on Patrick Perry
RESOURCES
EVENTS
IMM North America
January 21-22, 2026
Javits Center, NYC
Annual NATJA Conference & Marketplace
June 2-5, 2025
Riviera Resort & Spa
Palm Springs, California
Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference
August 14-17, 2025
Corte Madera, CA (Just north of San Francisco)
Society of American Travel Writers
2025 Annual Convention
September 10-14, 2025
Detroit, Michigan
ORGANIZATIONS
Society of American Travel Writers
American Society of Journalists and Authors
North American Travel Journalists Association
WORKSHOPS
Beginner Travel Memoir Workshop
August 18-22, 2025
Central Paris
Advanced Travel Memoir Workshop
September 1-5, 2025
Central Paris
COURSES
Instructors: Amanda Castleman, Jessica Poitevien and Leslie Hsu Oh (on hiatus)
Six-week online course beginning September 3, 2025
Travel Writing I
Instructors: Amanda Castleman, Jessica Poitevien and Leslie Hsu Oh (on hiatus)
Six-week online course beginning October 21, 2025