HONORABLE MENTIONS ANNOUNCED IN INTERNATIONAL WRITERS OF THE FUTURE CONTEST

2nd Quarter First List of Honorable Mentions represent entrants from 17 US states and 5 countries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HOLLYWOOD: The 2nd Quarter Honorable Mentions of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest were announced today.

"Stories that received Honorable Mention status were good enough to merit acknowledgement for being well written. The selected stories for this category did not make the semi-finalist or finalist category,” contest coordinating judge K.D. Wentworth stated.    

“Out of the thousands of stories that get submitted to the contest, a very small percentage make it this far,” Wentworth continued. "This is the first list of Honorable Mentions. A second Honorable Mention list will be announced in a few weeks as we get closer to our decision on which stories will make the semi-finalist and finalist categories." 

“Out of the 1,800 science fiction and fantasy novels published yearly — most of them are written by established authors. The odds increase dramatically if you live in a foreign country, where publishers are rare or non-existent. This is one very effective way to get in the door for the newcomer from anywhere in the world.”

SECOND QUARTER HONORABLE MENTIONS 2010 - FIRST LIST

Daniel Ausema of Colorado

Alan Baxter of New South Wales, Australia

Jacquelyn Bartel of California

Diana Elena Betancur of New Jersey

Chris Boardman of Colorado

Barry Burnett, MD of Colorado

A.D. Callaway of Colorado

Kater Cheek of Arizona

Alvin G. Chua of California

Jeffrey Creer of Utah

Laura Dragon of Ontario, Canada

Dave Dunn of Florida

Sarah Frost of Kansas

Stuart D. Gibbon of West Australia

G.K. Hayes of Georgia

J. Scott Hill of Missouri

John Kurt of Colorado

Kamila Z. Miller of Washington

Jared Millet of Alabama

Monte McCord of Arizona

Timothy Miller of Wisconsin

Meghan Muriel of New York

Yeoryios Pantazis of Ontario, Canada

Beth Plutchak of Wisconsin

Robert Pritchard of California

Francesco Radicati of London, England

Daniel Roy of Quebec, Canada

Jack Ryan of Arkansas

David Steffen of Minnesota

Steve Szalai of British Columbia, Canada

S. Boyd Taylor of Texas

Michael Vella of Malta

Scott E. Vilhauer of California

Tom L. Waters of New Mexico

The annual winners of the contest are published in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology. The contest to date has discovered 7 authors who have gone on to be New York Times bestsellers and the contest has also launched hundreds of other writing careers.

Contest judges include multiple Nebula and Hugo Award winners and finalists such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Dave Wolverton, Sean Williams, K.D. Wentworth, Eric Flint, Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

For more information about the contest, go to www.writersofthefuture.com.