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:
Last week at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese won the Viking Fiction with a Sense of Place Award.
Such is the nature of our business, it’s no surprise that often the winning authors are travelling or not based in London so are unable to attend the event. Luckily Abraham’s globe trophy was accepted on behalf of him by his publisher, but he did send these words;
Continue reading The Covenant of Water, Winner of the Viking Fiction with a Sense of Place AwardThe 2024 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards in partnership with Viking.
20 March 2024 at Stanfords, Covent Garden.
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…
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Here at Stanfords we get a lot of customers asking for recommendations for fiction set in the place they are planning to go so that they can enjoy some in situ reading. With the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards later on this month, we thought we would take a closer look at the shortlisted titles in the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place category. Perhaps something on the list will inspire your next trip.
Continue reading Explore the shortlisted titles in the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place categoryFrom 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 2024We are so excited to share the shortlisted books for the Children’s Travel Book of the Year. This category celebrated fiction or non-fiction title for pre-teens which inspires a love of travel, exploration and adventure.
The 2023 Children’s Travel Book of the Year Shortlist:
Continue reading 2023 ESTWA Children’s Book of the Year Shortlist AnnouncedThe world’s best competition for unpublished travel writers. In association with the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.
For over twenty years, the Bradt Guides ‘New Travel Writer of the Year’ competition has been seeking out and championing new writing talent. Previous winners and finalists in the competition have gone on to see their work published in newspapers, travel magazines and books.
Here are the 2023 Longlisted entries:
Continue reading Bradt Guides 2023 New Travel Writer of the Year Longlist AnnouncedThe 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 AnnouncedLaunched in 2015, the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards (ESTWA) seek to celebrate the best travel writing, and travel writers, in the world. Many figures from the travel writing genre gathered at Stanfords London on 3rd March to celebrate.
Vivien Godfrey, Chairman and Chief Executive of Stanfords, said “Travel writing has become even more important in the past two years. Despite not been able to travel as much as we’d like, we’ve been able to see the world through books and are delighted to be able to come together to celebrate the wonderful writing that has flourished out of these challenging times.”
In total 33 books made the shortlists, divided into eight awards categories with winners being both debut authors and award-winning writers. The judging panels included authors Lois Pryce, Jini Reddy, Julia Wheeler, Lucy Popescu, Nicholas Jubber, the MD of Trip Fiction website Tina Hartas, Travel Writing World Podcast’s Jeremy Bassetti, Stanfords booksellers and members of the Stanfords senior team.
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