Story Submission Page

The dropdown menu below has three submission types: Solas, Independent, Manuscript. Choose “Solas” if you’re entering the Solas Awards. Choose “Independent” if you wish to submit a story without entering the Solas Awards. Choose “Manuscript” if you are submitting a book-length manuscript or book proposal.

Travelers’ Tales Story Submission – Author Information

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Thematic Category (Your story will automatically be considered for Best Travel Story of the Year. Please choose one other thematic category at no additional cost. You may select as many as you like, but each category after the first one will cost an additional $5.) Adventure Travel

The best story of high adventure, danger, or physical challenge

Animal Encounter

The best account of meeting snakes, elephants, rhinos, gorillas, birds, or other creatures

Bad Trip

The best account of when things go wrong, or the shadow side of a culture or individual

Best Travel Story of the Year

The best travel story of the year according to the Solas Awards judges

Cruise Story

The best account of a trip on the water in any vessel, from the smallest kayak to the largest ship

Culture and Ideas

The best story or essay about how art, history, currents events, fashion, or music affected a traveler or a trip

Destination Story

The best story about a place that captures its essence and reveals its attractions, making the reader want to go there

Doing Good or the Kindness of Strangers

The most inspiring tale of aid, comfort, philanthropy, or caring for others in faraway places, or of being the recipient of a stranger’s largesse

Elder Travel

The best story from a traveler 65 years of age or older

Family Travel

The best story about traveling with family of all generations grandparents, parents, children, cousins, siblings or journeying to discover roots

Funny Travel

The funniest account of a misadventure or an essay about how the world can make us laugh at ourselves and those around us

Love Story

The best account of love or romance on the road

Men's Travel

The best account by a man of a testosterone-fueled encounter or experience on the road

Most Unforgettable Character

The story that best captures how one individual or group of people affected a traveler in a meaningful way

Travel and Food

The best story where food or drink plays a role in introducing the traveler to a foreign culture or new friends

Travel and Healing

The best story about visits with shamans, healers, holy men and women, or holy sites in search of a cure for illness or psychological malady

Travel and Sports

The best account of a sports activity while traveling, such as climbing, rafting, sailing, trekking, swimming, kayaking, canoeing, fishing, skiing, baseball, Frisbee, polo, basketball

Travel and the Environment

The best story about ecology, development, or environmental issues as they affect travel

Travel and Transformation

The best story about the inner journey or pilgrimage, whether religious, mystical, psychological, or emotional

Travel Memoir

The best story that draws heavily on the writer’s past to make a point or reveal the lessons of a lifetime

Women's Travel

The best account by a woman of an encounter or experience on the road

Two quick steps are needed to get your story into our hands.

STEP 1 (Required):

Enter/paste your story text into the box below:

After pasting your story, you can edit the text and apply formatting using the editor toolbar.

NOTE: Copying a large amount of text (more than 3,000 words) from your clipboard into the editor may require extended time to complete. Please be sure the paste process has been completed before proceeding to the next step.

STEP 2 (Required):

Browse your hard drive to upload your story file (Word, PDF, or RTF format)

To ensure a successful upload of your story document, please be sure to remove any special characters from your file name (colons, ampersands, slashes, etc.)

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We accept story files as rich text format (RTF), Microsoft Word, and PDF. To upload your file, click on the button above, navigate your hard drive to the story file, then double-click the file to select it for upload.

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