I’ve arrived. I made this list.

Now excuse me while I get back, soulfully, to my poetry.

I’ll be talking travel writing on both coasts this summer. First up: the Travel Blog Exchange’s two-day travel blogging conference, TBEX ‘10, June 26-27 in New York City. I’ll be delivering a morning talk and discussing writing on a panel with writers and editors Don George, David Farley, Alison Stein Wellner and Michael Yessis.

Then in August, I’ll be back on the faculty at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference in Corte Madera, just north of San Francisco. Among the faculty members: Tim Cahill, Rolf Potts, Don George, David Farley, Jeff Pflueger, Jen Leo, Carl Hoffman, Michael Shapiro, Bob Holmes, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Catherine Hamm, Phil Cousineau, Andrea Johnson and Amanda Jones. The Book Passage conference is always one of the highlights of my year, and this year it’ll cover food writing, too.

Photo by tibchris via Flickr, (Creative Commons)

Praise for World Hum in the Australian:

Founded in 2001 and tagged “dispatches from a shrinking planet”, World Hum promises “the best travel stories on the internet” and it often rises to the challenge (note that the quality is patchy and some writers are, well, city blocks ahead of others). But it’s an energetic and engaged site, with lots of updates and new posts, tweets and blogs, and you will uncover some genuine nuggets of valuable information and numerous insights.

Great news, especially since it was in the writing category. Other sites also honored for the quality of their writing include NPR, BBC World Service and Vanity Fair.

Thanks, Webbys.