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Home / About Us / Contests / Travel Writing Contest for Women / WanderWomen Write Contest Past Winners

WanderWomen Write Contest Past Winners

2013 Grand Prize Winner: Rebecca Myers for Missing the Best Shot

2013 Category Winners
Adventure: Maureen Fisher for Tale of the Toilet Frog
Food & Drink: Jan DeGrass for Toasting the Tuscan Kitchen
Passion: Sarah Katin for The International Expiration Date
Spiritual: Shara Johnson for My Only Prayer 

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2012 Grand Prize Winner: Judith Campbell for Indian Ocean Commotion

2012 Category Winners
Adventure: Sarah Katin for The Shway Shway of the Vibrating Sisterhood
Food & Drink: Bonnie Etherington for Fish Tale
Passion: Madeline Felix for The Love Person
Spiritual: Bonnie Etherington for Mariposa in Sunlight

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Judith Campbell for Indian Ocean Commotion

2011 Grand Prize Winner: Samantha Stanway for Running with the Winos in France

2011 Category Winners
Adventure: Lori Robinson for Lilac Breasted Roller
Off the Beaten Path: Judith Wall for Love in Yellow and White
Food & Drink: Judith Ritter for Hair of Dog/Bile of the Snake
Spiritual: Madeline Felix for Recognizing Grace

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2010 Grand Prize Winner: Wendy Bone for Ibu Tina

2010 Category Winners
Adventure: Luminita Cuna for Hunting with the Huaorani
Food & Drink: Shae Healey for Eid al-Adha: Sheeps!
Off the Beaten Path: Kate Crawford for Elephant Driving 101
Spiritual: Eve Tai for Flunking Buddhism
Family Fun: Margaret O. Capozzolo for Schultz & Frankenstein

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2009 Grand Prize Winner — JoAnna Haugen for Building a Family in Kenya

2009 Category Winners
Adventure — Catherine Ryan Howard for Us Versus the Volcano
Family Fun — Ashley Cultra for Island in the Sun
Food & Drink — Victoria Allman for Stinky Rotten Fish Sauce
Off the Beaten Path — Stephanie Dellosa for Scent of a Secret Self
Spiritual — Kit Habianic for Among the Believers

 

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