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Winners of Worldwide Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest Will Celebrate the 29th Year of the L. Ron Hubbard Awards in Los Angeles

(October 04, 2012)

Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) October 04, 2012

The 29th anniversary of the L. Ron Hubbard Awards for winners of the internationally-acclaimed Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests will be held in Los Angeles at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Sunday, April 14th, 2013 it was announced today by contest organizers.

Celebrities and luminaries from around the world of science, science fiction and fantasy are expected to attend the gala event.

The theme of the evening will be Celebrating 29 Years of Helping New Writers and Artists Internationally to honor the 24 winners of the 2012-13 annual contest. "We do not yet have all of our winners for the year but so far we have Bolivian and Chinese winners, both currently living in New York.

Cash prizes of $10,000.00 for the grand prize winners alone and inclusion in the 29th annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology (Galaxy Press, 2013) make this a very special night, Joni Labaqui, director of the contest said. Presentation of the Gold Awards for the years best story and illustration will culminate the evening.

The Writers of the Future Contest and the companion anthology were created by L. Ron Hubbard 29 years ago to help discover new, aspiring writers of speculative fiction and give their best work a high-profile publishing showcase.

To date, the Contests have given rise to scores of flourishing careers, including New York Times bestsellers Dave Wolverton (On My Way to Paradise) , Sean Williams (Star Wars - The Force Unleashed), Karen Joy Fowler (Jane Austin Book Club), Patrick Rothfuss (The Wise Man's Fear), Nancy Farmer (The Ear, the Eye and the Arm), Jo Beverley (A Ladys Secret), Lisa Smedman (Extinction), Tim Myers (Basho and the Fox), Tobias Buckell (Halo: The Cole Protocol) and Eric Flint (1632).

Also, bestsellers such as Dean Wesley Smith (Men In Black), contest winner turned judge, after pumping out over 100 novels, are part of the contests stream of success stories.

Winning authors from past years of the Writers of the Future Contest have sold over 758 novels and over 4,000 short stories in science fiction and fantasy genres. Several past winners have gone on to write in other genres, for the theatre, as well as for TV and movies. Winning illustrators have created artwork for 31 major motion pictures, numerous TV shows, over 500 book covers, covers and story illustrations in magazines, and industrial design. The Hugo, Nebula and even the Academy Award grace our roster of winners.

The winners are chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, famous authors in speculative fiction including; Robert Silverberg, Tim Powers, Kevin J. Anderson, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Orson Scott Card, Robert J. Sawyer, Sean Williams, Dave Wolverton, Brian Herbert, K.D. Wentworth, Rebecca Moesta, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Gregory Benford, Doug Beason, Eric Kotani, Mike Resnick, Eric Flint, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Todd McCaffrey and Nnedi Okorafor.

The just as impressive illustrator judge roster has included in its history: Frank Frazetta, Frank Kelly Freas, Jack Kirby, Dave Dorman, Cliff Nielsen, Vincent Di Fate, Bob Eggleton, Stephen Hickman, Stephan Martiniere, Diane and Leo Dillon, Ron Lindahn, Val Lakey Lindahn, Judith Miller, Stephen Youll, H.R.Van Dongen, Laura Brodian Freas, Sergey Poyarkov, Robert Castillo and Gary Meyer.

The Contests successes most prominently defined by those writers and illustrators who have made it have left a significant and meaningful mark on the speculative fiction genre and on other aspects of contemporary fiction and the arts, Labaqui added. "People are now calling it 'International Idol' or 'The Planet's Got Talent' for writers and illustrators".

For information and seat reservations, please call Joni Labaqui at 323-466-3310. For more information on the contest please visit http://www.writersofthefuture.com.

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