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Writers & Illustrators of the Future Workshop – Day 2
2018 Writers Workshop Today the 2018 Writer Winners got into full swing with a day of instruction by David Farland and Tim Powers, along with practical assignments. Then the authors were sent off at...
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Writers & Illustrators of the Future Workshop – Day 3
2018 Writers Workshop Throughout the late afternoon, the writer winners returned with their 24-hour stories which were due at 5:00 p.m. sharp. After that was the “Big Reveal.” This is when the...
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Writers & Illustrators of the Future Workshop – Day 4
2018 Writers Workshop By guest blogger Eric James Stone (Writer winner WotF 20) The writers began the day by critiquing two of the 24-hour stories they had turned in the day before. Rumor has it that...
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Writers & Illustrators of the Future Workshop – Day 5
2018 Writers Workshop By guest blogger Eric James Stone (Writer winner WotF 21) The final day before the awards began with a guest lecture from Nancy Kress, winner of four Nebula Awards and two Hugo...
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34th Annual Writers & Illustrators of the Future Winners Announced
Darci Stone, a writer from Orem, UT and Kyna Tek, an illustrator from Gilbert, AZ were this year’s Grand Prize Winners at the 34th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards for Writers and Illustrators...
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Mike Resnick – Paying It Forward to New Writers
We recently had a chance to chat with Mike Resnick who was a guest speaker at the Writers Workshop and presenter for the 34th Annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future awards celebration here in...
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Darci Stone’s Confession on Winning
Darci Stone is the author of “Mara’s Shadow” and winner of the Writers of the Future Contest 2018 grand prize Golden Pen Award. Darci Stone and Eric James Stone being interviewed at the 2018 Writers of...
View ArticleFilipino Fantastic Fiction
Vida Cruz, a resident of Manila, is the first Filipino writer winner in the 34-year history of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest. Not only that, she also took first place in the 2nd...
View Article“As You Like It” Alien Style
There is no doubt the influence of William Shakespeare on the English language and literature and that now includes science fiction. Case in point is N.R.M. Roshak’s story “A Bitter Thing,” which takes...
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About “Illusion”
When Galaxy Press sent me a request to add a fantasy fiction story to Volume 34 of the Writers of the Future anthologies, I was excited. They asked if I had any tales in my archive that would fit into...
View ArticleWriters of the Future 1st Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 35
Here are the 1st Quarter Writers of the Future Contest Winners for Volume 35 Congratulations to you all! Winners: First Place – Kyle Kirrin from Colorado Second Place – Preston Dennett from...
View ArticleIllustrators of the Future 1st Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 35
Here are the 1st Quarter Illustrators of the Future Contest Winners for Volume 35 Congratulations to you all! Winners: Emerson Rabbitt from Minnesota Vetas Vasiliauskas from the United Kingdom...
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A Little Light in a World of Darkness
Amy Henrie Gillett hopes to kindle people’s hearts and minds by contributing a little light to a world that sometimes seems so dark. And so the story of how “All Light and Darkness”—published in L. Ron...
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C. Stuart Hardwick: Winning Is Just the Beginning
Hands down, the best and most useful part of winning the Writers of the Future contest and being published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 30 was the people. I’ve often compared...
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Humanity vs. Monstrosity
Eneasz Brodski has a definite opinion about the importance of human values vs. soulless monstrosities. And so this is his tale of how his story “Flee, My Pretty One” published in L. Ron Hubbard...
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Meet the New Faces of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Art
This year’s release of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 34 debuts 12 new illustrators with their own style of creativity and diversity in science fiction and fantasy art. This...
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Never Give Up!
It was 1978. I was thirteen years old and my mother gave me Clifford Simak’s book, Mastodonia. So began my love affair with speculative fiction. Within a few years, I read everything from Poul Anderson...
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future a National Bestseller 4 Years...
Nearly 100 aspiring writers and artists have realized a major accomplishment over the past 4 years as winners in the Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contests — when the book they were...
View ArticleAlumni Update – Stephen Lawson
Remember the stories in the news about exploding phone batteries? Well, Writers of the Future winner (Vol 33) Stephen Lawson turned the “Lithium-Ion Batteries exploding” phenomena into a terse rescue...
View ArticleSome Important Facts You Should Know About Writers & Illustrators of the Future
The Writers of the Future Contest began in 1984 and the companion Illustrators of the Future Contest followed 5 years later. Both have grown to become the largest merit competitions of their kind in...
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