Our Writers of the Future Writer’s Dad: Helping Writers Become Authors
Mike Resnick was a successful writer, a great Writers of the Future Contest judge, a writer dad to many, and lived his life following a simple formula: you pay forward.
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Some Important Facts You Should Know About Writers & Illustrators of the Future
/0 Comments/in Annual Workshop & Awards/by Joni LabaquiThe Writers of the Future Contest began in 1984 and the companion Illustrators of the Future Contest followed 5 years later. Both have grown to become the largest merit competitions of their kind in the world.
C. Stuart Hardwick: Winning Is Just the Beginning
/0 Comments/in Author spotlight/by Joni LabaquiAmy Henrie Gillett hopes to kindle people’s hearts and minds by contributing a little light to a world that sometimes seems so dark. And so the story of how “All Light and Darkness”—published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 34—came to be as told by Amy.
Mike Resnick – Paying It Forward to New Writers
/0 Comments/in Writer Articles/by Joni LabaquiSci-Fi and Fantasy author and editor Mike Resnick on how he pays forward, in more ways than one, to help the next generation of new writers.
Lou J. Berger on Writers of the Future
/0 Comments/in Author spotlight/by Joni LabaquiLou J. Berger writes about his experience with the Writers of the Future Contest and his journey as a writer.
Avoid Hesitation
/0 Comments/in Writer Articles/by Joni LabaquiWhen you sit down to write a story or the opening to a scene, you’re presented with a problem: how to begin? As a contest judge, I see too many tales that don’t work—right from the very first sentence.
Dragon Con 2017 – Day 1
/0 Comments/in Events/by Joni LabaquiToday was the first day of Dragon Con in Atlanta, GA and it was jam-packed all day long. Sales at the convention started at 10:00 AM and it was a full booth at the start all the way to the end of the day. Both Battlefield Earth and Writers of the Future are in great […]
Q&A with Bestselling Author and Writers of the Future Judge, Mike Resnick
/0 Comments/in Author spotlight/by Joni LabaquiMike Resnick has 5 Hugo Awards and has won numerous other awards from places as diverse as France, Japan, Spain, Croatia and Poland. He is also first on the Locus list of all-time award winners, living or dead, for short fiction, and fourth on the Locus list of science fiction’s all-time top award winners in all fiction categories. Here’s our interview with him.
Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards Event 2017
/0 Comments/in Annual Workshop & Awards/by Joni LabaquiGuest blogger, Ron Collins, writes about what it was like on the day of the achievement awards ceremony for 2017. It was held at the Wilshire Ebell Club Theatre, an amazingly cool place, and the excitement built up through the day.
Writers of the Future Workshop 2017 – Day 5
/0 Comments/in Annual Workshop & Awards/by Joni LabaquiThe group is dragging a bit today. If you’ve read yesterday’s blog, you’re not surprised by this. It’s been a couple jam-packed days and late nights in a row. “I think I hit a wall today,” said Ziporah Hildebrandt (2nd place, Q4). Of course, you couldn’t tell it by the way she went about the […]