First of all thank you for those who submitted your travel writing pieces for OAJ's 2009 first travel writing contest.

We receieved a slew of submissions...good, bad and really out there pieces! Our job, a long and tedious one, was to pick and choose the best pieces from the staggering amount of entries (over 60 entries!)...and we are not done as of yet. Me and our contributing editors have been out-of-touch, traveling, working and basically living. Which is forcing us to push the annoucement date of our winners forward two weeks. Hopefully, we'll have everybody on board and finalizing our first, second and third places winners as soon as possible; because we'll be having another contest very very soon (rumors say it'll be possibly be starting in the next coming month). 

Some of you may have noticied that you story has been posted on On A Junket's website. This will be happening throughout the coming weeks, even after the annoucement date. So be sure to check OAJ daily to see your story posted.