Submitted Photo Post-Journal and Times Observer columnist Steve Sorensen is the winner of the 2025 Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association Humor Writing Award.

RUSSELL — Steve Sorensen, popular speaker, outdoor columnist and contributor to regional and national magazines, recently won three “Excellence in Craft” awards from the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association.

Sorensen won top honors in Humor Writing for the second consecutive year, this year for a piece titled “You Might Be a Pennsylvania Hunter If….”

Sorensen also won First Runner-Up in two other categories: Best Magazine or Regional Newspaper Feature, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsman and Conservationists, for “The Arthur Young Buck” published in Muzzle Blasts magazine; and the Pennsylvania Elk Resource Award, sponsored by Keystone Elk Country Alliance, for “A Free and Easy Elk Excursion for Everyone” published in The Post-Journal and the Times Observer.

“POWA might be the largest state outdoor writers’ organization in the nation, with some of America’s best writers. It’s an honor to be recognized among them. Many awards are sponsored by national companies. I thank them for promoting hunting and shooting, and the newspapers and magazines for publishing my work,” Sorensen said.

“Many readers follow me on social media and attend events where I’m invited to speak. I’m humbled and thankful they’re interested in what I have to say, because that’s why the magazines and newspapers publish my work.”

Sorensen lives in Russell and writes for outdoor magazines, as well as his own blog “Mission: Hunter.” He is a field contributor to Deer & Deer Hunting magazine, and his newspaper column, The Everyday Hunter®, appears bi-weekly in The Post-Journal and the Times Observer.

To learn more about Steve’s writing and speaking, go to www.EverydayHunter.com.