Larry Habegger

By Cherene Sherrard Grand Prize Gold Winner in the Seventeenth Annual Solas Awards It takes time to find comfort in the swells of both culture and sea. Given the picture-perfect day, the narrow Oahu beach was peculiarly empty. A pair of newlyweds had the entire panorama as backdrop for their wedding photos. Far from shore, streaks of cirrus clouds formed a cross in a cobalt sky that met the white foam of the break. The rainbow arcs of parasails spun their stick figure riders like marionettes.

The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12 As Andrew McCarthy wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “For more than 20 years, Travelers’ Tales has been publishing books that might best be described as the literary equivalent of a group of travelers sitting around a dim café, sipping pints or prosecco and trading their best stories.” Now comes —the latest collection in the best-selling, award-winning series that invites you to ride shotgun alongside intrepid female nomads as they wander the...

By Pier Nirandara Grand Prize Bronze Winner in the Seventeenth Annual Solas Awards Fourteen hours, five passengers, three seats, two longed-for countries, one memorial. You shuffle down the aisle, toddler in tow, before plopping down in the middle seat beside me. Already flustered from the delayed flight and whatever connection you had to make, strands of hair escape down the sides of your face, framing brows downturned at the corners.