| THE ILLUSTRATORS
OF THE FUTURE CONTEST WELCOMES LEGENDARY ARTISTS
STEPHEN HICKMAN AND STEPHEN YOULL |
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The
Archers
by Stephen Hickman |
Stephen Hickman: Professional science
fiction and fantasy artist Stephen Hickman has joined
the all-star panel of world renowned artists to select
winners of the internationally acclaimed L. Ron
Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest, now in its
17th year, for new and aspiring illustrators of science
fiction and fantasy. Hickman has illustrated more than
450 book covers for major speculative fiction authors—including
Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, Larry
Niven—since 1976. He received a Hugo Award, one
of speculative fiction’s highest honors, in 1994
for his series of U.S. Postal Service Space Fantasy
stamps.
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Cover
for Steve Erikson's Gardens of the Moon
by
Stephen Youll
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Stephen Youll: The Illustrators
of the Future also welcomes renowned artist Stephen
Youll. Youll has received best artist, best in show,
and best professional awards from major science fiction
and fantasy conventions worldwide, and he has been nominated
several times by the Association of Science Fiction
and Fantasy Artists as best hardcover/softcover artist.
In 1996, he received a gold award from the Magazine
and Booksellers Newsstand for most outstanding cover.
Born in Hartlepool, England in 1965, Youll first worked
as a historical reconstruction artist at Durham Cathedral,
one of England’s oldest after graduating from
the Durham New College of Art and Design. He moved to
the United States in 1989 and has exhibited his artwork
extensively in both countries. Youll first gained notoriety
in the United States for a series of covers which he
executed for a repackaging of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation,
Robot, and Empire series novels in
1991. He has since illustrated covers for numerous speculative
works by Arthur C. Clark, Robert Silverberg, Kevin J.
Anderson, Brian Herbert, and others.
Current jury members serving with Youll and Hickman
include award-winning artists, Edd Cartier, Vincent
Di Fate, Leo and Diane Dillon, Bob Eggleton, Frank Frazetta,
Laura Brodian Freas, Judith Holman, Ron and Val Lindahn,
Sergey Poyarkov, and H.R. Van Dongen. The panel’s
cumulative work alone has produced more than 25 Hugo
Awards and thousands of illustrated works.
| WINNERS
ON THE ROAD! |
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| Larry
Schliessmann signing his winning story from Writers
of the Future Vol. XX at Barnes & Noble in Myrtle
Beach, SC. |
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Writers and Illustrator of the Future winners are busy
all across the country, doing media interviews and bookstore
events to promote their winning stories and illustrations.
Check these listings to get a chance to meet one of
the winners in your area!
• Apr. 2nd, 2-4pm: Larry
Schliessmann, McCaslan's Bookstore, Greenwood,
SC
• Apr. 3rd, 2-4pm: Matt Champine,
Barnes & Noble, Norman, OK
• Apr. 4th, 12-4pm: Larry Schliessmann,
USC University Bookstore, Columbia, SC
• Apr. 16th, 1-4pm: Blair McGregor,
Barnes & Noble, Avon, IN
• Apr. 19th, 5-6:30pm: Geoffrey Girard,
University of Dayton, OH
• Apr. 21st, 7-9:00pm: Geoffrey Girard,
Books "n" More, Wilmington, OH
• Apr. 27th, 6:30pm-on: Bradley Beaulieu,
The Little Read Books, Wauwatosa, WI
GET
AN EDGE ON THE COMPETITION—BUY AND READ
WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, VOLUME
XX AND WIN UP TO
$5,000 FOR YOUR STORY OR ILLUSTRATION! |
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 As
an aspiring artist or writer, you need every advantage
you can get to break into the industry—and your
key to success can be found in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents,
Writers of the Future volumes.
Founded by L. Ron Hubbard, the Writers of the Future
Contest has provided readers with the best new fantasy
and science fiction stories from all over the world
for almost two decades.
Winning stories are selected by top writers including:
Kevin J. Anderson, Algis Budrys, Orson Scott Card, Tim
Powers, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Frederik
Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert
Silverberg and Jack Williamson.
Each volume also contains essays on writing and art
from renowned professionals such as L. Ron Hubbard,
Orson Scott Card and Frank Frazetta that offer you insights
on how to win the contest.
This historic 20th anniversary edition of the
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the
Future anthology, the bestselling and most widely
influential anthology of its kind, brings you 15 exciting,
strikingly original stories—that are guaranteed to ignite
your imagination with strange new worlds, untraveled
galaxies and bizarre dimensions and the mysteries of
a universe of infinite size where somewhere out there,
everything that is possible is real.
"Writers of the
Future is a market and you have to KNOW your market
if you are going to submit and win. I had the first
four volumes of Writers of the Future and just read
them over and over before I won and was published in
Volume 5." — K.D. Wentworth, Author
Order L. Ron Hubbard
Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XX today!
| INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING
IN THE CONTESTS? |
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Participating is very easy and there
is no entry fee. Just remember, the deadline for the
next quarter is March 31st, 2005,
a deadline by postmark. Three cash prizes are awarded
each quarter for each Contest. For writers, first
prize is $1,000, second prize is $750, third prize
is $500. For illustrators, three winners are selected
and each wins $500. The annual Grand Prize for each
Contest is $4,000.
There are certain requirements
that must be met when submitting your entry. The rules
for the Contests have been provided below, so please
review these before sending in your entry.
The mailing addresses
are:
The Contest Administrator for the Writers
and Illustrators of the Future Contest may be contacted
at the following e-mail address: contests@authorservicesinc.com.
You will find she is quite helpful in sorting out
questions on the rules, eligibility requirements,
entry specifications, etc. Feel free to e-mail her
and, while you are in touch, let her know how you
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