2005 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards winners
29/08/2005 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Seattle's Science Fiction Museum hosted the 21st annual international L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards - a competition for new and aspiring writers and illustrators of science fiction, fantasy and horror. "A" listers in attendance included contest judges, Kevin J. Anderson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Eric Kotani, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert Sawyer, K.D. Wentworth and Sean Williams.
The grand-prize winning author, John Schoffstall of Glen Mills, PA received $5,000 for his story, "In the Flue," selected by judges as the best story of the year. Eric Valdez y Alanis of Mexico City was announced as this year's grand-prize winning illustrator and also received a $5,000 cash prize.
From as far away as Australia's New South Wales and Ukraine's Kiev, this year's winners and finalists (listed below) were provided with an all-expense-paid trip to attend the ceremonies and a week-long workshop led by many of the world's foremost professionals in their respective fields, at the new Seattle Public Library. Winners additionally receive $30,000 in cash prizes and royalties.
Capping the ceremony was the release of the award-winning anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XXI, published by Galaxy Press. The anthology will feature all the winning stories and including commissioned artwork by the winning illustrators.
Selections from thousands of entries annually were made from two panels in each discipline.
The Contest began in 1983 when L. Ron Hubbard celebrated his return to the field of science fiction with the novel Battlefield Earth. It was with his own experiences as a new writer in mind-and from the perspective of five decades as a premier professional-that he created the Contest. In stating his reasons in the introduction to the first Writers of the Future anthology, he wrote: "In these modern times, there are many communication lines for works of art. Because a few works of art can be shown so easily to so many, there may even be fewer artists. The competition is very keen and even dagger sharp. It is with this in mind that I initiated a means for new and budding writers to have a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged."
In his own 56-year writing career, Mr. Hubbard produced 250 works of fiction, 19 New York Times bestsellers. Among his most celebrated works are Battlefield Earth and the ten-volume Mission Earth series.
Winners of the 2005 Writers of the Future Contest:
FIRST QUARTER:
Sidra Vitale. 1st Place. Brighton, MA.
Eric James Stone. 2nd Place. Eagle Mountain, UT.
Cat Sparks. 3rd Place. Balmain, New South Wales.
SECOND QUARTER:
John Schoffstall. 1st Place. Glen Mills, PA.
David Goldman. 2nd Place. Portland, OR.
Mathew Reiten. 3rd Place. Stillwater, OK.
THIRD QUARTER:
Stephen Stanley. 1st Place. Eugene, OR.
Scott Roberts. 2nd Place. Fredericksburg, VA.
Michael Livingston. 3rd Place. Rochester, NY.
FOURTH QUARTER:
Floris Kleinje. 1st Place. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sean Tinsley. 2nd Place. Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.
Ken Scholes. 3rd Place. Gresham, OR.
FINALISTS:
Andrew Gudgel. Baltimore, MD.
Michael Rimar. Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
Lon Prater. Panama City Beach, FL.
Winners of the 2005 Illustrators of the Future Contest
FIRST QUARTER:
Steven Popovich, Chicago, IL.
Michael Brenner, Lawrence, KS.
SECOND QUARTER:
Youri Bobrikov, Potava Distriki, Ukraine.
Alex Quintero, Ontario, CA.
Mike Wohlwend, Stow, OH.
THIRD QUARTER:
Perrin Hendrick, Exeter, NH.
Alex Paramonov, Kiev, Ukraine.
Olga Madyar, Kiev, Ukraine.
FOURTH QUARTER:
Ali Hilton, Crossville, TN.
Cornelius Cockroft, Brooklyn, NY.
Erik Valdez y Alanis, Mexico City, Mexico.
Around 300 novels and 3,000 short stories have been published by former winners of the Writers of the Future Contest. For more information, visit www.writersofthefuture.com
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