For those of you who have the blog automatically set-up as a link, I invite

you to visit the contest home page new addition - "The Herald". Our new

newsletter can be read there with the click of your mouse!

This blog will continue to be used for quarterly contest status for all entrants.

Dear All,

Here is exciting news from one of your brethren. Just in case you did not know, Analog is a big deal. It is straight SF and the largest 

magazine of the sort. The December cover (see below) is beautiful and it so happens that the art is by none other than our 

Illustrators of the Future judge Bob Eggleton. On top of that, a writers of the Future judge - Kristine Kathryn Rusch's name also 

graces the cover.

Kudos all around.... and here is Brad's announcement:

Tim Powers, author of On Stranger Tides, The Anubis Gates, Last Call and other works kicks off our second season of Farland's Authors Advisory Conference Calls Wednesday October 19, 2011 9:00pm Eastern. Tim is also credited as being one of the originators of the Steampunk sub genre of Science Fiction. He'll be talking to us about Secret Histories: Blending the real and the fictional in our works.

If you have a question you'd like Mike to ask during the interview, email it to him at mshaffer41@gmail.com.

Aerospace Engineer from London Takes Home the First Place Prize this Quarter

Here are the standings of the Writers of the Future Contest

3rd Quarter: Congratulations to you all!!!!  The full list of Finalists,

Semi-Finalists, Silver Honorable Mentions and Honorable Mentions

are below:

Finalists:

Dustin Adams of New York

Jacob A. Boyd of Oregon

David Fleissig of New York

M.S. James of Florida

Rahul Kanakia of California

William Mitchell of the United Kingdom

Meghan Muriel of Texas

Trina Marie Phillips of California

Semi-Finalists:

We are proud to announce our 2nd Quarter Writers of the Future Winners!

They are:

William Ledbetter 1st Place - from Texas
Nicholas Tchan 2nd Place - from Sydney, Australia
Corry L. Lee 3rd Place - from Washington

CONGRATULATONS!

Dear All,

Here are the results of the Second Quarter up to the Finlist Stage. The 3 winners

will be announced within the next 5 days. Please click to the right to see this full list.

Congratulations to you all!!!!!

Finalists:

D.J. Carani of Illinois

Russ Colson of Minnesota

Roy Hardin of Florida

William Ledbetter of Texas

Corry L. Lee of Washington

Nicholas Tchan of New South Wales, Australia

T.C. McCarthy of South Carolina

Sky McKinnon of Alaska

Four "Writers of the Future" pubished together again -- a record

Dear All,

Newsflash --- Wal-Mart has just ordered Writers of the Future

Volume XXVII. We will have the distribution list from them in

about a week and I'll let you all know. This is great news!

Why? Because Wal-Mart sells more books than ALL of the

bookstore chains combined! This is great exposure for

our winners!!!

  The first quarter winners of the Writers of the Future Contest are:

  Marie Croke from Maryland

  Gerald Warfield from Texas

  Harry Lang from Pennsylvania

They will be published in L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of theFuture Volume XVIII

CONGRATULATIONS!