BGTW Travel Writer of the Year

Posted by Mike Gerrard Aug 10, 2008

Not many people can get to call themselves Travel Writer of the Year, and it's time for me to have another go in the annual award competition from the British Guild of Travel Writers. I've never won it yet, but last year my wife Donna Dailey was runner-up, and collected her award and prize at the BGTW Awards Dinner at London's Savoy Hotel in November. I can't tell you how proud I was when she stepped up onto the stage, especially as some of the articles in the portfolio she submitted were written right here on her pages at Suite101. Yesterday I was Googling 'Travel Writer of the Year' to see what came up (OK, it was a distraction from actually writing anything), and was amazed to find a video of Donna receiving her award posted on YouTube. You can take a look at it here. The prize was generously donated by the Cancun Convention and Visitors Bureau, but sadly didn't include a trip out there (for two, of course!) We're both busy getting our entries together for this year's Travel Writer of the Year Award, and will be keeping our fingers crossed from now until November 9th, when the results will be announced at at the Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel in London.