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Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 3
Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 3 – on the way to the library Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 3 A subdued tension hangs in the air this morning. Yesterday’s conversations about...
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Illustrators of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 2
Illustrators on their way to the workshop. Illustrators of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 2 On day 2 the Illustrator Winners started bright and early, meeting down in the lobby of the Loews Hotel....
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Illustrators of the Future Workshop – Day 3
Illustrators of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 3 It was an early start for the winners and based on the look on their faces they didn’t get much sleep. They were busy working on their assignments....
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Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 4
Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 4 Welcome to Due Date Thursday. Stories are to be turned in no later than 4:00 PM. No exceptions. That’s the tough news. The super-cool news is that this is...
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Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 5
Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 5 The group is dragging a bit today. If you’ve read yesterday’s blog, you’re not surprised by this. It’s been a couple jam-packed days and late nights in a...
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Illustrators of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 4
Illustrators of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 4 On Day 4 it was another early morning. The artists had been working throughout the night and into this morning. The drive and passion of the winners...
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Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 6
Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 6 Saturday is essentially a “Cavalcade of Stars.” For the winners, this means that today they don’t have to go anywhere except the classroom, but about...
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Illustrators of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 5
Illustrators of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 5 Day 5. Portfolio day. The winners have been through the gauntlet. They pushed through their assignments and have the tools to succeed. Larry Elmore...
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Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards Event 2017
Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Event 2017 This is, of course, the day of the achievement awards ceremony. It’s held at the Wilshire Ebell Club Theatre, which is an amazingly cool place....
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Writers & Illustrators Workshop Wrap-Up
At the beginning of the week, I had said that this was a contest like no other and that remains true today, as this is the largest on-going contest for Writers and Illustrators in Science Fiction and...
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Doug Souza, author of “The Armor Embrace”
Doug Souza hails from Modesto California. He is a teacher of young children, a father, and a person in the process of discovering that he’s become a gifted writer. His story “The Armor Embrace,”...
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Jake Marley, author of “Acquisition”
Jake Marley on stage at the 33rd Annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards event with Erika Christensen and David Farland To meet Jake Marley is to encounter joy in its purest form. First...
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Andrew L. Roberts, author of “Tears for Shulna”
Author Andrew L. Roberts listening guest speaker, Kevin J. Anderson, at the Writers Workshop It doesn’t take long after meeting Andrew L. Roberts to know that this is a man who looks for layers in...
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Sean Hazlett, author of “Adramelech”
Mike Resnick (L) presenting Sean Hazlett with his Writers of the Future award If you want something done, as the old saw goes, give it to a busy person. This probably goes a long way toward describing...
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C.L. Kagmi, author of “The Drake Equation”
C.L. Kagmi is a woman in blue. Lipstick, that is. “It’s part of the uniform anymore,” she told me when I asked about it. She wore the blue lipstick to an event, and it caused such a positive stir that...
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Ziporah Hildebrandt, author of “The Long Dizzy Down”
Despite being a bit quiet on first meeting, it only took a moment to determine Ziporah Hildebrandt is a free spirit. She is the kind of person who wears print skirts that flow around her like a magic...
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Molly Elizabeth Atkins, author of “Obsidian Spire”
It seems to me that Molly Elizabeth Atkins is in the middle of a transition. She’s a published finalist in the 33rd Annual Writers of the Future anthology, of course. It’s her first time in print. Her...
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David VonAllmen, author of “The Magnificent Bhajan”
David VonAllmen is someone who seems to always be on an even keel. There’s this sense of stability riding under his veneer that comes out even stronger when he speaks. He looks at things with a sense...
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Dustin Steinacker, author of “Envoy in the Ice”
Dustin Steinacker is soft-spoken and open. He’s calm and collected on the outside, but having a conversation with him makes you realize that his mind goes in directions that yours doesn’t, and that...
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Andrew Peery, author of “Useless Magic”
Author Andrew Peery Andrew Peery is one of the more impressive people you could meet. He lives in Durham, North Carolina where he works as a physician. He has a family—wife and two younger children who...
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