Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

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The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards celebrate the best travel writing and travel writers in the world. The awards include the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.

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The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year was previously called Dolman Best Travel Book Award (2006-2014). The award is named after Edward Stanford and is sponsored by Stanfords, a travel books and map store established in London in 1853. The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers. [1] The other award is that made each year by the British Guild of Travel Writers, but that is limited to authors who are members of the Guild.

The first Dolman award was given in 2006, just two years after the only other travel book award - the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award which ran for 25 years - was abandoned by its sponsor. [1] From its founding through 2014, the £1,000 to £2,500 prize was organized by the Authors' Club and was sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman. [1] [2] Beginning in 2015, a new sponsor Stanfords, a travel book store, was established along with an increase to £5,000 for the winner.

List of awards

The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards consist of the following:

Stanford Travel Book of the Year

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"Stanford Travel Book of the Year":

2024 [3]

2023 [4] [5]

"Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year":

2022 [6]

2021 [7] [8] [9]

2020 [10] [11]

2019 [12] [13]

2018 [14] [15]

2017no award [16]

2016 [17] [18]

2015 [19] [20]

"Dolman Best Travel Book Award":

2014 [21]

2013 [22]

2012 [23]

2011 [25]

2010 [26]

2009 [27]

2008[ citation needed ]

2007[ citation needed ]

2006[ citation needed ]

Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing award

A lifetime achievement award for travel writing.

Fiction with a Sense of Place

Children's Travel Book of the Year

Photographic Travel Book of the Year

Illustrated Travel Book of the Year

Food & Drink Travel Book of the Year

New Travel Writer of the Year

Photography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year

discontinued

Innovation in Travel Publishing

discontinued

Travel Memoir of the Year

discontinued

Adventure Travel Book of the Year

discontinued

Travel Blog of the Year

discontinued

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Michael Kerr (7 July 2008). "Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 July 2008.
  2. ↑ ""Suicide by cop" coroner retires". haringey.gov.uk. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bassetti, Jeremy (31 March 2024). "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2024 Shortlists & Winners". Travel Writing World. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  4. ↑ @NatGeoUK (2023-03-02). "What to read: the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2023 winner and shortlist". National Geographic. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2023". Travel Writing World. 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022". Travel Writing World. 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  7. ↑ "Shortlist revealed for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  8. ↑ "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year in Association with the Authors' Club". edwardstanfordawards. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2021 Shortlists & Winners". Travel Writing World. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  10. ↑ "Stanford Dolman Travel Book o..." edwardstanfordawards. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 Shortlist & Winners". Travel Writing World. 2020. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018 winners". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. February 28, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "World-Class Shortlist Announced for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2019". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. January 10, 2019. Archived from the original on June 17, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018 winners". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. February 1, 2018. Archived from the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Announces 2018 Shortlist". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. January 10, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Award year shifted from being the year the books were published to the year the award was presented.
  17. ↑ Katherine Cowdrey (3 February 2017). "Julian Sayarer's Interstate named Travel Book of the Year". The Bookseller . Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2016". Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  19. ↑ Michael Kerr (2 July 2015). "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award: shortlist announced". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  20. 1 2 Michael Kerr (28 September 2015). "Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award 2015 winner announced". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  21. ↑ "2014 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  22. ↑ "2013 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  23. ↑ "Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012". Author's Club. 9 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  24. ↑ "Telegraph Travel writer wins Dolman award". The Daily Telegraph. 6 Sep 2012. Archived from the original on 9 September 2014.
  25. ↑ "Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2011". Author's Club. 14 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-26. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  26. ↑ "Ian Thomson wins 2010 Dolman Travel Book of the Year". dolmanprize.wordpress.com. 7 July 2010. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
  27. ↑ Blake Friedmann. "STREET WITHOUT A NAME shortlisted for Authors' Club Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2009". blakefriedmann.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012.
  28. ↑ "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020". Travel Writing World. 26 February 2020.

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