After reviewing the vote we are pleased to announce that the winning piece was--

Bruja Crocodilo--The Crocodile Witch
By Julia Drake

Congratulations, Julia!

We'd like to thank everyone who participated in this effort. The TravelWriter's blog was filled with rich and wonderful tales and we knew judging it would be tough.

DeepTravelers plans on running this contest again soon. If you have any suggestions that would make it better for you as a reader or a writer please forward them to bestvoice@deeptravelers.org.

We are planning on attaching author names to the pieces and leaving them up for a while.

If you'd like your piece to come down let us know and we'll unpublish it.

Thanks again for making this such a successful event and come back soon!