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What Happens When Two Strangers Trust the Rides of Their Lives to the Magic of The Universe
Bicycling Magazine

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The King of Tides
Southwest

A daughter, whose bond with her father is forged with rod and reel, embarks on a journey of love, loss, and salmon in the wilds of Alaska.

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What Stands in a Storm
Southern Living

The things that seem to tear our world apart reveal what holds us together

  • Gold Lowell Thomas Award, SATW

  • MIN Award (print feature)

  • MIN Award (multimedia package)

  • The feature story that grew into the book

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Hustle & Float
Outside

(My month of doing 100 wheelies a day)

In her quest to master a quintessential cool-kid trick, our author found the sweet spot at
the crossroads of work and play.

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The Crossing
International Association of Culinary Professionals Food Writing Award
Cooking Light

Accompanying one fish from river to plate,
an angler wreckles with life, death, and
her duty as part of the food chain.

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The Redemption of
Artis Monroe
Bicycling

His stories about life before jail and the
crimes he committed were constantly shifting.
But the bikes he fixed when he was behind bars
were real—and so was the freedom they provided.

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Take These Broken Wings
SB Nation

He lost both hands and feet at the age of 21.
But his hardest trial was vying for a spot
on the Paralympic team.

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How Many Lives Can a
Single Bike Change?
Bicycling

The story of a mountain bike
that wouldn’t stop giving.

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Freedom, Wyoming
New York Times

Along a creek at Wyomint’s edge,
it only feels as if summer
will last forever.

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The Art of Losing

In the biggest race of our lives, we learned that sometimes you have more to gain from losing than from winning.

ESPN

The $37 Billion Oil Spill

Five years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, we wanted to know whether the Gulf had recovered—and how much remains to be done.

Outside

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Marianne Vos Is The Boss

The world’s best bike racer is a woman and an inadvertent activist, fighting for gender equity.

Outside

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The Last Faulkner

A rare, inside glimpse of a sometimes-impenetrable Southern literary icon, from his niece.

Southern Living

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Angle of Repose

The story of a handshake that ended illegal trail building on Teton Pass, near Jackson Hole.

Bike

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300 Miles with
Bo Jackson

A charity ride with Bo Jackson, Lance Armstrong, Picabo Street, Ken Griffey, Jr., and Al Joyner.

Bicycling

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Mississippi’s Literary Trail

Take a road trip through the Mississippi cities that shaped the literary works of Southern scribes from Williams to Welty.

Southern Living

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Kathryn Bertine Won’t Be Stopped

Publishers told her the world didn’t need a book about women fighting for change. She knew they were wrong.

Bicycling

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Women (Finally!) Get a Big-Wave Heat at Mavericks

After a nearly two-decades-long fight, women will surf in the iconic event.

Outside

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When Syncopation Rocks a Nation

An analytical riff on the next-level narrative craftsmanship of Hamilton, a storytelling masterpiece.

Nieman Storyboard

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The Real Reason There’s No Tour de France for Women

The long, convoluted struggle for a top-flight—and lasting—European women’s stage race.

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My Little Bayou: In Praise of the Backwaters

Some of the best parts of the Gulf? The inlets and channels leading to it.

Garden & Gun

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More Than a Birdhouse

In rural Alabama, a haven for purple martins generations in the making.

Garden & Gun

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Equal Prize Money Is Only Half the Story

Surfing became the latest sport to close the prize-money gender gap.

Outside