Tag Archive for: Writers of the Future

New Story Inspires Award-Winning Art

Michael T. Banker is one of our award-winning authors featured in the latest edition of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 31. He currently lives in New York City where he works as an actuary in a life insurance company. Subway rides into and out of Manhattan are generally spent either with his nose in a book or furiously scribbling down notes for a story. Not a terribly interesting existence. But that’s the trick of stories, isn’t it?

Conquest of Space – Easy, According to William Pomerantz, VP Virgin Galactic

William Pomerantz, VP for Special Projects at Virgin Galactic was our keynote speaker this year and he brilliantly and very enthusiastically made every winner, judge and guest in attendance want to get on the next Virgin Galactic spaceship to the stars and beyond. Man’s innate inclination to go to the stars is, of course, not […]

Scott R. Parkin – There Is No Looking Back

Scott should get a Guinness World Record for most finalist wins in the history of the contest. With 40 entries in 25 years, he earned 5 finalist wins when this year, he finally made it into the top three in the 2nd quarter with his story “Purposes Made for Alien Minds.”

31 Years

Well, the annual awards event is over—by all consent, the best celebration we’ve had in our 31 years—and we have now had a whole week to get back to our normal functions.

So we thought . . .

And the Winner Is…

On the evening of April 12th, science fiction and fantasy writers and illustrators from around the world turned their attention to the 2015 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Ceremony to find out who would take home the grand prize. This year’s awards ceremony took place at the renown Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los […]

WotF Workshop – Day 6

Another packed day and no rest for the winners as they moved through a full slate of presentations. Nancy Kress talked with the writers about the most common problems she’s seen with beginning writers.

WotF Workshop – Day 5

Nothing compares to seeing a book come off the press. Watching the machines print, stack, and cut, is a fascinating process. What takes that feeling to the next level is knowing it’s your book coming off that press. And that’s what the writers and illustrators experienced today at Bang Printing Press.

Wotf Workshop – Day 3

The writers reported to ASI at 9am this morning and hung out downstairs in the illustrator’s workshop room while the illustrators themselves took a tour of the L. Ron Hubbard Library and the Writers & Illustrators of the Future Hall upstairs.

Scott Parkin and Martin L. Shoemaker discussed last night’s homework about suspense and what made it different from simply having tension, which made an unusual segue into a secondary conversation of Scott’s lovely radio voice.

WotF Workshop – Day 1

Writers of the Future Workshop — Day 1: Writers of the Future offers winning writers a lot. Cash prize, free weeklong workshop, meeting bestselling writers who judge the contest, the gala event. When writers aspire to win Writers of the Future, they don’t think about the real prize. The real prize is the people…

Typewriter in the Sky – One of the Top 100 Fantasy Books

The story “Typewriter in the Sky” by L. Ron Hubbard is regarded by critics and literary historians as the prototypical “inward voyage” or “journey of the mind” story and has been given a brand new look for the launch of the first-ever Writers of the Future Bundle.