This excellent one-day conference on June 9, 2007 will feature lots of great presentations (http://www.washwriter.org/) including a panel on travel writing hosted by C M Mayo, who will be using my "Top Ten Tips for Publishing Travel in Newspapers" as one of her handouts...

See the book at this link... http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=689628 Here's some of Houghton Mifflin's description of the book: Tim Cahill writes in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2006, "'Story' is the essence of the travel essay. Stories are the way we organize the chaos in our lives, orchestrate voluminous factual material, and -- if we are very good -- shed some light on the human condition." Here are twenty-six pieces that showcase the best travel writing from 2005, filled with "keen observations that transform ordinary journeys into extraordinary ones" (Library Journal). Culled from a wide variety of publications, these stories, as Cahill writes, all "touched me in one way or another, changed an attitude, made me laugh aloud, or provided fuel for my dreams. I wish the reader similar joys."

From The Georgia Review blog, posted Monday, May 08, 2006: "Best American! We're very pleased to announce that two more works from TGR will be included in some top-notch anthologies due out soon. Sally Shivnan's essay 'Airborne,' from our Fall 2005 issue, will be published in Best American Travel Writing 2006, edited by Tim Cahill. The book is due out in October, 2006. Cat Bohannon's essay 'Shipwreck,' from our Spring 2005 issue, will be published in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006, edited by Dave Eggers, illustrated by Art Spiegelman, and with an introduction by Matt Groening. It will also come out in October, 2006. Cat's essay centers on the Body Worlds project of Gunther von Hagens. Sally and Cat, congratulations!" posted by David Ingle at 11:51 AM

In May-June 2006 I will be a writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, working on a new novel set, in part, in Nebraska.

Sally Shivnan will present two half-day worskhops at the Saturday Retreats for Writers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on October 29th. For more info, go to www.saturdayretreats.com.