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1st Set of Honorable Mentions for the 1st Quarter of Writers of the Future

The FIRST set of Honorable Mentions for the 1st quarter are listed
here. Do not fret if you have not gotten a reject letter and are not
on this list. This is the first set of Honorable Mentions. Congratuations
to you all!!

Charles Anderson of Colorado
Ellen Dawn Benefield of California
D.M. Bonanno of Illinois
Robert J. Boumis of Arizona
Daniel Braum of New York
AnneMarie Buhl of Oregon
Jennifer Campbell-Hicks of Colorado
Von Carr of Delaware
Alvin Chua of California
DJ Cockburn of Arizona
E. H. Coleman of Washington
Liz Colter of Colorado
Eljay Daly of Pennsylvania
J. David of Nevada
Scott Davis of Massachusetts
Jakob Nexo Drud of Denmark
Richard J. Errington of Connecticut
Margaret McGaffey Fisk
Kathryn Flatt of Illinois
Grey Freeman of London, England
Lyn C.A. Gardner of Virginia
Allen Gies of Michigan
Tracy Godsey of Arkansas
Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon of Michigan
Mark Ladouceur of Ontario, Canada
David Mahan of New York
Scott Mikula of Washington
Rich Novotney of Wisconsin
Sandra M. Odell of Washington
Angela Rega of New South Wales Australia
Amanda Sabourova of California
Lesley L. Smith of Colorado
Anne Pillsworth of Rhode Island
Desmond Warzel of Pennsylvania
Michael Wawrzycki of Louisiana

Another Win from a WOTF Winner!

Tom Crosshill, 1st Place, 1st Quarter Volume XXVI (to be published this
year) just sent this in:

" I'm very happy to announce that Jake Freivald at Flash Fiction Online has picked up my piece "The Zombie of His Early Days" for April publication. I love that mag, so I'm quite excited. Also, this marks my third SFWA-qualifying sale so I can finally join as an Active member -- something I've been dreaming of since. . .ah, about the time I was 12.I have to say, WOTF has been a huge boost in all this. I doubt I would have written nearly as much over the past year, or gone from unpublished to SFWA-qualified in nine months, if not for the adrenaline shot that Joni's first phone call provided. Cheers, Tom-- Tom Crosshill Writer of Speculative Fiction"

Youtube Channel Launched for Writers and Illustrators of the Future!

Dear All,

Very exciting news here. Check out the entire youtube channel for Writers
and Illustrators of the Future. Become our friend on facebook and tell others
to visit too.

There are many great interviews with our judges and winners and others
who love the contest, including the founder of Earthlink and many others.


http://www.youtube.com/user/WritersoftheFuture#p/c/809E8F3F6EA7CE14/0/QY_k2Kv-mYY

I'd love your feedback too! Happy viewing.

Joni

4th Quarter Illustrator Winners Announced!

The 4th Quarter Illustrator judging results are in.

The winners are:


Alice Jingxuan Hu of Chicago

Ven Locklear of Redmond Oregon

Olivia Pelaez of New Jersey

Ven, Alice and Oliva will each be assigned
one of the winning stories from the writer
contest. The grand prize judging will be
announced at the awards ceremony in August.

Congratulations to you all!

4th Quarter Writers of the Future Contest Winners Announced!

Dear All,

The results are in and the winners are:


1st Place - Laurie Tom from Torrance, California

2nd Place - Scott W. Baker from Monterey, Tennessee

3rd Place - Lael Salaets from Oakridge, Oregon

They are the final writer winners to be published in Volume
XXVI.

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL!!!

Our illustrator winners for the 4th quarter will be announced
shortly. Stay tuned......

The stories for the 1st quarter of our 27th year are
currently being judged.

Star review in Publishers Weekly for Volume 25!!

Dear All,

It is one thing to get reviewed in Publishers Weekly. It is yet another
to get a star review. This is our first star review in PW.

Congratulations to our winners of Volume 25! Here it is in full --


L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: Volume XXV
Edited by K.D. Wentworth. Galaxy, $7.99 (540p) ISBN 9781592124367
Previous recipient of the award, K.D. Wentworth (The Course of Empire, Stars Over Stars) returns to edit this top-notch anthology of this year’s winners in the contest’s 25th year. The collection offers a dozen strong stories that range from well-conceived fantasy to classic science fiction reworked. Standout stories include Donald Mead’s touching “The Shadow Man,” with its lingering postwar ghosts in Hiroshima; Matthew S. Rotundo’s exploration of the ethical boundaries of military intelligence in “Gone Black”; and Jordan Lapp’s portrayal of the short, fiery life of a phoenix in “After the Final Sunset, Again.” Other featured writers such as Emery Huang, Fiona Lehn, and Mike Wood depict the rise of mega-corporations with paramilitary patent enforcers, for example; or competition for government financing turned into a dangerous sporting event; and computerized risk management taken to dangerous extremes. Each of the 12 stories is paired with the work of one of the winning illustrators from L. Ron Hubbard’s companion contest. Several essays round out this volume, complimented by noted author and perennial judge Robert Silverberg’s piece on the history of the contest. Always a glimpse of tomorrow’s stars, this year’s anthology is definitely a must-have for the genre reader. (Nov.)

Cevin Bryerman
Associate Publisher
Publishers Weekly