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Thursday, September 17, 2009
IFWTWA WiFTy Scholarship Winner & Honorable Mentions
The Board of Directors of the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association is pleased to announce the results of the first annual competition for the organization’s WiFTy Scholarship. This year, the award will be an inside cabin aboard Holland America’s ms Eurodam for the 2010 Conference at Sea, a one-week cruise, round-trip from Fort Lauderdale on January 9-16-2010, and a year's membership in IFWTWA, valued at $1,000. After careful deliberation, the Board chose JoAnna Haugen of Las Vegas as the scholarship winner. In addition to being awarded the Conference at Sea and one-year membership in IFWTWA, JoAnna will have her winning entry published in Global Writes, the IFWTWA online magazine. As the quality of so many entries was excellent, the Board decided to award one-year membership to all the Honorable Mention candidates. They are as follows: Warren Bobrow Sarah Ring Melissa Leong Stacey Holtzer Naomi Abeliovich Anne Gaelle Laplanche Kathleen Ann Gurchiek Hieu Huynh Amanda Miccio Aya Lowe Lauren Issaeff Shamanth Rao LuAnn Schindler Marnely Rodriguez This award program is funded by IFWTWA with a $500 contribution from Travel-Writers Exchange.com and $100 from Leigh Cort Publicity. Total value for winner is $1,000+. Value for finalists is $175+. IFWTWA obtained the finances to sponsor this by our drawing in January 2009. The items were provided by donations from: Grand Hyatt - Chicago, Infinity Publishing, Monkey C. Media, Pappy's Cabin, Pointe Winery, ResuMayDAy.com, The Heathman Hotel-Kirkland, WA, Thornton Winery and Top Chef: The Game. IFWTWA thanks you all again for making this possible. IFWTWA would like to thank you for your entries in our WiFTy Scholarship contest. There were many exceptional entries. We hope those of you who did not win, will enter again next year. IFWTWA is looking for sponsors for next year's scholarship. If we get more sponsors, we'll offer more scholarships. It is always a wonderful experience to be part of helping a writer advance their career. Please contact me at maralyn@ifwtwa.org if you are interested in being a sponsor or contributing for our scholarship fund raising drawing.
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To be mentioned as a Food Writer in the company of such an esteemed group of professionals is a thrill! Thank you to the judges and to all those who support my efforts. Cheer! Warren Bobrow
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