- Women--Beyond Spectating: Responding to Rape; Beyond Spectating: The Criminal Cost of Incarceration; Beyond Spectating: Predators and the Pentagon; Beyond Spectating: The Media and the Monster
- Shouting Out--San Diego County Forfeits 240 MW CoGen Plants
- Travel--Fountain of Innocents: Paris Resurrected
The San Diego Reader: WebBlog
- First Place San Diego Reader Blog Contest--Roaming Solitary in the Sands
- Second Place San Diego Reader Blog Contest--The Conundrum of Desert Farming
- Third Place San Diego Reader Blog Contest--Empirical Order — Fiction from the Apocalyptic Chronicles[i]
- San Diego Reader Day's Top Tweeted Story--Beyond Cult Controversy: The Mate Peddlers of the Twelve Tribes
SoCa's Grid Controversy; Lusting for a GOOD Ride: Bending California's Backroads; Beware: Freefalling Seniors; The Church Embraces the Crone: Becoming a Nun at 50; Love Me As If You Liked Me; Baptisms and Tapestries; Love's Wang Dang Doodle; Dirty Laundry: Sexual Assault Exposed; Life on the Rim: The Surf Along the Pacific Ring of Fire; Rising from the Trenches with San Diego's Urban Corps; Rising from the Trenches Part 2: San Diego's Urban Corps Receives Two National Awards; Samurai Surfers: Cashing It All In to Live on The Edge; Amping up the Corporate Ante: Conservation Beyond Compliance; Slow Your Roll: A Writer’s Cacophony
[i] This was the first fictional piece to win the San Diego Reader monthly blog contest.
- Travel Editor's Pick
Death Valley, Why?; Leonard Knight and His Mountain; SoCal Five-Gear Weekend Excursions; Slab City, CA
- Stories
Napa: Prager Winery and Portworks; Badwater Salt Flats in Death Valley, California; Taos, New Mexico: Hot Springs on the Rio Grande; Calistoga, California; Joshua Tree National Park and 29 Palms, California; Grayton Beach State Park, Florida; On the Chesapeake: Easton, Maryland; Roswell, New Mexico; Vikingsholm Castle, Lake Tahoe; Historic Coronado, California; Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico; Hellhole Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park; Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; Camel Lake, Apalachicola National Forest, Florida; Padres Island National Seashore, Texas; Indian Palm Canyon, Palm Springs, California; Oak Alley Plantation, Louisiana; San Diego's Inland Sea: Salton Sea, California; Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina; Boulder Park, Jacumba, California; Nothing Like the PCH; Trona Pinnacles, Mojave Desert, California; Washington Grove, Maryland – Town within a Forest; La Jolla Sea Caves – A Trip through Time; Finding It in Shoshone, California; California's Active Volcanoes; Toth’s Trail of Whispering Giants Born in La Jolla; Catalina's Lonely Peaks; Salt Point State Park: Hidden California Coast; Utah's Moab Music Festival; Close Encounters in CA's High Desert; Joshua Tree: More than Just Camping; California's Active Volcanoes; Spectacular Mono Lake; Gila, Geronimo and More in New Mexico; Mexico Beach; Florida Roadtripping; Far Flung Corners of Texas; Hubbell’s Humble Hovels: Annual Father’s Day Tour of Ilan-Lael Foundation
San Diego Reader: Neighborhood News
Fallbrook’s Shrinking Avocado; Olive Fruit Fly Takes Toll Statewide; Is a Fallbrook Business Improvement District Necessary?
Fallbrook’s Shrinking Avocado; Olive Fruit Fly Takes Toll Statewide; Is a Fallbrook Business Improvement District Necessary?
Wanderlust
- Photo of the Week: Flamingo; Sand Storm on Dunes
- Editor’s Choice: The Tijuana Sloughs: Surfing, Storks and Sandcastles; Coronado's Golden Cities of Cibola: New Mexico's Pueblos; Santa Catalina, Isle in the Mist;Yeti's and Liars in San Diego's Outback
Plum Orchard Antebellum Mansion on Cumberland Island; Calico Ghost Town, Mojave Desert, California; Beyond Alien Invasion: Roswell's 12 Caves; Pioneering Women Architects of the Wild West; Mules, Miners and Immigrants: Manifesting California's Destiny; The Sand Serpent of Borrego Springs; The Knight of Salvation Mountain and his Holy Grail; The City on the Slabs: East Jesus; Murals in the Barrio--Art Beneath the San Diego Bay Bridge; A Dutchman's Castle and Hungarian's Chiefs in the American Southwest; Joshua Tree, Beyond the National Park; Santa Fe Wine and Chili Fiesta; Altadena, the Rustic Pasadena; Palm Groves in Southern California; Pirates on the Chesapeake; St. Paddy’s Bash in the Berkshires; Shoshone; The Happy Shak—A Throwback Hippy’s Haven on the Beach; Hot Springs, Snakes and Comets in the Rio Grande; Pacific Coastal Highway--North
Trazzler/OpenPlaces
- Best Photo: Galleta Meadows Sea Serpent
- Honorable Mention: Surfers in Early Morning Fog; Red Shingle Turrets; Surfing the Sloughs;Silver Peak Trail
Savoring the Flavors of Lavender at Keys Creek; Dancing in the Desert: Death Valley Icon, Ballerina Marta Becket; The Mud Caves and Fish Creek Canyon; Lazy Desert Vintage Airstream Hotel; Desert Art in Yucca Valley; Anacapa Lighthouse; Christmas on the Gilded Queen Mary; Casa de Balboa; National Salute to Bob Hope; The Corps Rocks the Mercado; Anacapa Lighthouse; Grayton Beach State Recreation Area; Slim Jim and the Seven Sister Caves; Hearst Castle Sculpture Garden; Lawrence Welk Theater and Museum; Florida’s Historic Estates--Vizcaya; Carillon Concert Beneath the Oaks; Cannery Row's Sardine Factory; Pavers at Salt Point State Park; Vikingshom Castle
Bootsnall
Seaside Secrets Along Sonoma’s Coastal Highway; Motor West: A Woman’s Quest for Freedom on the Open Road; Drums and Dragons: California's Festivals for the Gods
RealFoodTravel
Quest for Good Joe: Eight Offbeat California Coffee Houses;Julian, CA: Pie Town and So Much More
