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Writers & Illustrators of the Future Workshop Week 2023 – Day 7
At the high point of a great week, Gunhild Jacobs, Executive Director of Author Services, Inc., presided over the gala awards ceremony for the 38th annual L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers and Illustrators of...
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Writers & Illustrators of the Future Workshop Week2023 – Day 8
Contributed by Martin Shoemaker The final day of instruction for the Writer and Illustrator workshops was a detailed discussion on Professional Promotion and PR Seminar with Galaxy Press President John...
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Predictions on Our Future Education. Were They Right?
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, judges and winners for the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests were asked to answer this question: “With the rapid development and vast expansion of computer...
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Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: L. Ron Hubbard’s...
The Independent Book Publishers Association awarded the Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal to L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 38 in the category of Science Fiction & Fantasy. The...
View ArticleTop Voices in Science Fiction and Fantasy Hail from the UK
The United Kingdom continues to prove itself a significant resource for the future of science fiction and fantasy storytelling and illustration as it racks up another two winners in the internationally...
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Writing Resilience
Resilience. It’s a simple thing, right? The ability to bounce back up after getting knocked down, bent and scarred, but stronger for the experience? A well-crafted protagonist positively exudes...
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One Writer’s Journey
Scene: Year 2019, morning, woman in 50’s is in her living room, dressed in a long pajama shirt. She is jumping up and down, doing mid-air twirls in front of the picture window. Through the window, she...
View ArticleL. Ron Hubbard’s Writers and Illustrators of the Future Volume 38 Strikes...
The 2023 Independent Publisher Book Award, IPPY, a global awards program illuminating publishing excellence, from a field of 5,000 entries, across 80 categories, has just recognized L. Ron Hubbard...
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Taking the Long Road
I’ve been living by a quote I saw on social media a while back. “Just because you took longer than others doesn’t mean you failed.” It meant a lot to me at the time. It was sometime in the mid-2010s my...
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It All Started When … (AKA What Honorable Mention Means to Me)
I have a total of twenty-five certificates from my years of entering the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. So why have I offered a humble picture of one Honorable Mention? Well, it all...
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Old But Not Too Old to Succeed!
A 50-year journey with a few twists and turns … First of all, I’m pretty old these days. While I have it on good authority that I’m not the oldest person to have won the Writers of the Future Contest,...
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Reader of the Future and Writer of the Future
I had the pleasure of being chosen as the winner of the Readers of the Future contest this year, and it was a fantastic experience. I met some of the significant authors of my life. I learned from them...
View ArticleIllustrators of the Future 2nd Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 40
And the winners are: Ashley Cassaday from Texas Tyler Vail from Texas May Zheng from New Jersey Finalists: Filiz Kose from Turkey Daniel Montifar from Texas Mai-Han Nguyen from Washington D.C....
View ArticleWriters of the Future 2nd Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 40
And the winners are: First Place – Rose and Alice Robilliard from Great Britain Second Place – Sky McKinnon from Washington Third Place – James Davies from Maryland Finalists: Joshua Boehman from...
View ArticleWinners Announced: 2nd Quarter Writers and Illustrators of the Future...
The L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests are pleased to announce the second quarter winners for its 40th year. For the Writers of the Future Contest, the winners for the...
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Writers of the Future Welcomes Award-Winning Author Hugh Howey as its Newest...
The Writers of the Future Contest Administrators welcome Hugh Howey into the ranks as one of its esteemed judges for the internationally acclaimed Writers of the Future. Hugh Howey is the New York...
View ArticleThe Writers and Illustrators of the Future Podcast Recognized by the Podcast...
The L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Podcast launched in 2019 and currently has 238 published episodes and over 50 million downloads in over 110 countries. And just this week, the...
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Martin’s OPINION on the Unwritten Rules of the Writers of the Future
On the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Forum, we brought up the topic of the Unwritten Rules of the Contest. I decided to put these in one place. These are my opinions on some principles (I hate...
View ArticleIllustrators of the Future 3rd Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 40
And the winners are: Peggy Hooper from Oregon Jennifer Mellen from Utah Pedro Nascimento from Portugal Finalists: Yoshu Terry Brown from Virginia Ashley Gates from Louisiana Colin Lammie from...
View ArticleWriters of the Future 3rd Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 40
And the winners are: First Place – Lance Robinson from Canada Second Place – Kalpana Mahendran from Malaysia Third Place – Lisa Silverthorne from Nevada Finalists: Christopher Baxter from Utah...
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