Press Releases - Jacqueline Harmon Butler - award-winning travel writer

02/15/2002

Jacqueline Harmon Butler Wins International Press Award for Journalism

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CATANIA, SICILY —Jacqueline Harmon Butler has been awarded an honorary Special Mention for her story "The Fire of Mount Etna," in an annual writing contest sponsored by the Province of Catania Tourist Board, the Italian Government Tourist Board and Alitalia Airlines. The contest, The International Press Award for Journalism, "I, Leonardo Award; A Few Words About Sicily," is open to journalists from around the world. Butler received her award on February 6, 2002, in Catania, Sicily, at a formal ceremony in the beautifully restored Palazzo Biscari. Participants in the contest were asked to submit an already published travel piece on Sicily, specifically on the Catania Province, within the categories Culture, Environment and Gastronomy.

Butler’s story "The Fire of Mount Etna" (Gastronomy) was first published in the e-zine "BootsnAll.com," and is archived in their "Travel Stories" section. It was also featured on the e-zine "Island Mania," and in La Sicilia newspaper, (February 2002).

Jacqueline Harmon Butler’s writing can be found in more than 25 publications, newspapers, magazines and ezines. She is a contributing editor to the anthology, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, Globe Pequot Press, (April 2002), and is currently working on a novel about a woman "of a certain age," who travels to Italy and falls in love with a much younger man.