|
-
Hivemind social net
-
News
- Features
- Blogs
- Events
Calendar
- Editorials
- Monthly
Zine
- Offworld
Report
- Our Daily
RSS Feed
- Google Toolbar scifi
- Movie/TV
Reviews
> Recent movies
> Movies by year
> Movies by title
- Book
Reviews
> Recent books
> Books by year
> Books by title
- Home
- Worlds
- Biography
- Bibliography
- Appearances
- Reviews
- Blog
- Community
- Press
- Links
Become
an Advertiser
- Web
Site Directory
- Search
the Net
- StephenHunt.net
- WoodenRocket.com
- Check
your E-mail
- Non Sci-Fi
News
|
Hubbard's SFF awards comes to the SciFi Museum
23/08/2005 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Seattle's SciFi Museum to host this year's Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards On August 19th 2005, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum will host 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.
Over the past 21 years, 16 Washington-based writers and 2 Washington-based illustrators have won the competition. One of the latest additions to the Contests' panel of judges is Seattle resident, Brian Herbert (co-author of the Dune prequels - based on the novels penned by his father, Frank Herbert, who also judged the competition during his lifetime.)
From as far away as Australia's New South Wales and Ukraine's Kiev, this year's winners and finalists are provided with an all-expense-paid trip to attend the ceremonies and a week-long workshop led by various professionals in their respective fields, to be held this year at the new Seattle Public Library from August 15th to 19th. Winners additionally receive $30,000 in cash prizes and royalties. At the awards event, the Grand Prize winners for the Writers and Illustrators Contests will be announced for the first time.
Capping the ceremony will be the release of the anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XXI, published by Galaxy Press. The anthology will feature all the winning stories and include commissioned artwork by the winning illustrators.
Selections from thousands of entries annually were made from two panels in each discipline. Judging writer panelists included: Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Algis Budrys, Orson Scott Card, Brian Herbert, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Eric Kotani, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, K.D. Wentworth and Jack Williamson. Judging panelists for illustrators included: Edd Cartier, Vincent Di Fate, Leo and Diane Dillon, Bob Eggleton, Frank Frazetta, Laura Brodian Freas, Stephen Hickman, Judith Holman, Ron and Val Lindham, Sergey Poyarkov, H.R. Van Dongen and Stephen Youll.
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 more than 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, 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.
Around 300 novels and 3,000 short stories have been published by former winners of the Writers of the Future Contest.
Check them out over at www.writersofthefuture.com 
|
|
