Erin Byrne writes travel articles and essays, short stories, poems, and screenplays. Her writing has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Travelers' Tales Grand Prize Bronze Solas Award for Best Travel Story of the Year for Storykeepers, and the 2012 Silver Solas for Spirals, Memoir of a Celtic Soul.
Erin's work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Everywhere magazine, World Hum, Travelers' Tales Best Travel Writing anthologies, Crab Creek Review, and Vestoj, The Journal of Sartorial Matters.
Erin is the writer of The Storykeeper, an Accolade Award-winning film about occupied Paris. The Storykeeper was on the first list of nominated films at the Jaipur International Film Festival, was named Best Documentary Short at the Geneva Film Festival, and is shortlisted for the Onecloudfest Award. The film is currently being shown at festivals worldwide. The true story, along with photos, documents and details, can be found on the Current Projects page.
Erin is occasional instructor at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris, and is co-editor of an anthology of writings from The Evening Writing Workshop, Vignettes & Postcards, which is the winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Anthology, Foreword Reviews' Book of the Year Finalist, International Book Award Finalist, as well as a San Francisco Book Festival and Paris Book Festival award winner. She also teaches the workshop, "Deep Travel" with writer Christina Ammon.
Erin is currently working on Wings From Victory, a collection of her travel essays, and the Storykeepers novel.
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