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Vida Cruz's award-winning fantastic fiction, is a deeply moving "Beauty & the Beast" tale based on Filipino folklore entitled "Odd and Ugly."

This year’s Grand Prize Winners were presented at the 34th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards for Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests in Science Fiction and Fantasy held at The MacArthur in Los Angeles, California.

Busy day for both Workshops. The writers finished their 24-hour stories and then there was the Big Reveal--where the authors see the illustration for their story for the first time. The pictures tell the story.

In this article originally written for and published in Writers of the Future Volume 5 in 1989, Hal Clement, member of Science Fiction’s First Fandom and Grand Master of Science Fiction, deals with how to effectively “challenge readers with the ‘what if?’ implications of a background significantly different from the familiar and everyday.”

Here is the first in a series of articles addressing the barriers to achieving your writing goals as requested by you, the aspiring writer.

If you are an aspiring author or know someone who is, then this article is for you. Find out for yourself why Writers of the Future is the top writing contest in the world and why you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by checking it out.

Award-winning illustrator and artist, Shaun Tan, gives sound advice to new illustrators with tips that are relatively universal, useful and encouraging.