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. 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. 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. 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. 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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Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing award

A lifetime achievement award for travel writing.

Fiction with a Sense of Place

Adventure Travel Book of the Year

Travel Memoir of the Year

Children's Travel Book of the Year

Photography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year

Food & Travel Book of the Year

Innovation in Travel Publishing

New Travel Writer of the Year

Travel Blog of the Year