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28th Annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Workshops and Awards Celebration: Day 6 & 7

28th Annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Workshops and Awards Celebration: Day 6 & 7

Day 6 of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Workshop Week started early at ASI. Workshop Instructors Tim Powers and Nina Kiriki Hoffman spoke about the schedule for the day and then [...]

28th Annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Workshops and Awards Celebration: Day 5

28th Annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Workshops and Awards Celebration: Day 5

Writer Day 5, Illustrator Day 4, had the writer and illustrator winners gathered down in the lobby at the Hilton at 8 AM, the lot of them to be taken to the hundred-thousand-squarefoot facilities of Bang [...]

28th Annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Workshops and Awards Celebration: Day 3

28th Annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Workshops and Awards Celebration: Day 3

Since there was so much going on in Day 3, Brad and I split up to cover different workshops. My report on the writers’ workshop follows, while Brad’s observations on the illustrators workshop concludes the article. [...]

Welcome to the Workshop Week (Editorial)

Welcome to the Workshop Week (Editorial)

Welcome to the third issue of the Writers of the Future Newsroom!  In just over two weeks, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Workshop Week will culminate in the Awards Gala at [...]

Introducing: Mago Huang, Illustrators of the Future Winner

Introducing: Mago Huang, Illustrators of the Future Winner

“I am lucky to exist in a world where magical things happen; it is a world of my own invention.” Mago Huang’s art is full of imagination and storytelling, and creating is the way she influences [...]

My Time with the Wordos by Jacob A. Boyd

My Time with the Wordos by Jacob A. Boyd

When people ask why I moved from Chicago to Eugene, Oregon, I tell them it was because Chicago winters were growing more grueling by the year, and Eugene rarely even sees snow. Or I say I’m [...]

Introducing: Rhiannon Taylor, Illustrators of the Future winner

Introducing: Rhiannon Taylor, Illustrators of the Future winner

Rhiannon Taylor works as a freelance artist and writer in Chicago, Illinois. She is known for her maniacal focus, driven work ethic and sense of humor. Her art reflects fantasy and sci-fi elements or themes, and [...]

Introducing: Emily Grandin, Illustrators of the Future winner

Introducing: Emily Grandin, Illustrators of the Future winner

Emily Grandin was born April 2nd, 1978, in Hong Kong. She first circumvented the earth at nine months old, and has been an avid traveler ever since. Growing up in the Canadian suburbs of Montreal, she [...]

Interview with Jay Lake

Interview with Jay Lake

This quarter’s interview is with Writers of the Future award winning writer Jay Lake. His story, “Into the Gardens of Sweet Night” was originally published in Vol. 19, and will be reprinted here every Thursday starting [...]

Vol 28 winner sells story to Australian Pro-Magazine

Vol 28 winner sells story to Australian Pro-Magazine

Jacob A. Boyd, third place Contest winner in the third quarter of 2011, wrote the eHerald to let us know that he sold a story to Australian pro-magazine Cosmos. From the website: COSMOS is a literary [...]

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