Last night we announced the shortlists for the 2025 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Presented by Viking. Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating the best travel writing in the world.
Here are the shortlists:
Many of the world’s greatest travel writers gathered at Stanfords last night to celebrate the ninth Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards (ESTWAs) presented by Viking, the world’s leading exploration company.
This year 18 books made the shortlists, divided into five awards categories with winners being both debut authors and multi-award-winning writers.
Each award winner was presented with a hand-made globe by Lander & May on the Isle of Wight featuring a design produced exclusively for the awards.
And the winners are…
Continue reading Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2024 Winners AnnouncedFrom Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show in London’s Olympia, The Stanfords Travel Writers Festival welcomes The Times Russia correspondent Tom Parfitt. He talks to Ann Morgan about his Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year shortlisted book ‘High Caucasus’ and discusses his deep ties to the area.
On 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand people captive at a school in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. Working as a correspondent, Tom Parfitt witnessed the bloody climax in which 314 hostages died, more than half of them children. The experience left Tom emotionally shredded, struggling to find a way to return to his life in Moscow and put to rest the ghosts of the Beslan siege.
Continue reading ‘High Caucasus’ with Tom Parfitt: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2024The Shortlist for the 2023 Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year has been announced. The award, which was open to authors from all across the world, celebrates excellence in literary travel writing.
Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Shortlist:
Continue reading 2023 Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Shortlist Announced
