We are pleased and proud to announce that the latest edition of Moon Handbooks Nicaragua was given the Award for Best Travel Writing in the 2006 Peace Corps Writers Awards. PeaceCorpsWriters.org is a place for returned volunteer scribes to gather and share news about their writing, which helps promote the Peace Corps Third Goal of "Bringing the world back home." Say the site's founders, "the writings of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), all their novels, short stories, essays and poetry are a positive way of educating Americans about the world."

Authors Randall Wood and Joshua Berman first traveled to Nicaragua in 1998 as Peace Corps Volunteers, where they received intensive language, cultural, and technical training before moving to isolated posts in the Estelí countryside for their respective two-year tours.