{"id":531,"date":"2012-05-08T01:13:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T08:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/blog\/?page_id=531"},"modified":"2024-04-01T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T00:48:38","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttravelwriting.com\/award-winners-2018\/\">12th Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing<\/a>, March 2018, from Travelers&#8217; Tales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze Certificate in Travel and Shopping Category for my story &#8220;The Body Bag and the Behemoth&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention for my stories &#8220;Bangkok, the Saudis, and the Jism Balls,&#8221; &#8220;Mendocino: The Smells of Nature,&#8221; &#8220;Siberia: The Moon, the Snow, and Doctor Zhivago,&#8221; &#8220;Sweet Home Shenyang,&#8221; and &#8220;Uganda: A World Together&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttravelwriting.com\/award-winners-2017\/\">11th Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing<\/a>, March 2017, from Travelers&#8217; Tales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold Certificate in Elder Travel Category for my story &#8220;The Elevator in Rome&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Silver Certificate in Love Story Category for my story &#8220;Summer Paramour&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttravelwriting.com\/award-winners-2015\/\">9th Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing<\/a>, March 2015, from Travelers&#8217; Tales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze Certificate in Funny Travel Category for my story &#8220;Good Night, Irene: Confessions of a Mileage Whore&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention for my stories &#8220;Sweet Home Shenyang&#8221; and &#8220;Ask Why Not&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/new-award-reviews-for-showdown-at-shinagawa-tales-of-filming-from-bombay-to-brazil\/\">Self-Publishing Review Awards<\/a>, Commended Winner in Non-Fiction, one of the three highest non-fiction awards<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For my book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/showdownatshinagawa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SH<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/showdownatshinagawa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OWDOWN<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/showdownatshinagawa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> at SHINAGAWA: Tales of Filming from Bombay to<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/showdownatshinagawa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttravelwriting.com\/award-winners-2012\/\">6th Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing<\/a>, February 2012, from Travelers&#8217; Tales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze Certificate in Men&#8217;s Travel Category for my story &#8220;Googling David&#8221;\u009d<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Certificate in Travel and Sports Category for my story &#8220;Showdown at Shinagawa: Bowling for Budget in Tokyo&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttravelwriting.com\/award-winners-2011\/\">5th Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing<\/a>, February 2011, from Travelers&#8217; Tales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze Certificate in Destination Category for my story &#8220;Wrecks and Pissers: The Bombay-Pune Road&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttravelwriting.com\/award-winners-2009\/\">3rd Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing<\/a>, February 2009, from Travelers&#8217; Tales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silver Certificate in Family Travel Category for my story &#8220;Paris When it Sizzles&#8221;\u009d<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Certificate in Doing Good or the Kindness of Strangers Category for my story &#8220;Unpunished&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention for my story &#8220;Googling David&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttravelwriting.com\/award-winners-2008\/\">2nd Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing<\/a>, February 2008, from Travelers&#8217; Tales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honorable Mention for my stories &#8220;Googling David,&#8221; &#8220;Showdown at Shinagawa: Bowling for Budget in Tokyo,&#8221; &#8220;India: It Takes a Village,&#8221; and &#8220;Wrecks &amp; Pissers: The Bombay-Pune Road&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttravelwriting.com\/award-winners\/\">1st Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing<\/a>, March 2007, from Travelers&#8217; Tales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silver Certificate in Bad Trip Category for my story &#8220;Eiffel: What Goes Up&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Certificate in Funny Travel Category for my story &#8220;Chartres: Ecstasy at the Altar&#8221;\u009d<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention for my story &#8220;Summer Paramour&#8221;\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12th Annual Solas Awards for Travel Writing, March 2018, from Travelers&#8217; Tales Bronze Certificate in Travel and Shopping Category for my story &#8220;The Body Bag and the Behemoth&#8221; Honorable Mention for my stories &#8220;Bangkok, the Saudis, and the Jism Balls,&#8221; &#8220;Mendocino: The Smells of Nature,&#8221; &#8220;Siberia: The Moon, the Snow, and Doctor Zhivago,&#8221; &#8220;Sweet Home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-531","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1324g-8z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}