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Writers of the Future Contest 3rd Quarter Winners 2016

3rd Quarter Writers of the Future Winners

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  Writers of the Future 3rd Quarter Winners, Finalists,…
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Illustrators of the Future Contest 3rd Quarter Winners 2016

3rd Quarter Illustrators of the Future Winners

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  Here is the list of our Third Quarter (April 1…
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Writers of the Future 2nd Quarter Winners

2nd Quarter Writers of the Future Winners

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Illustrators of the Future 2nd Quarter Winners

2nd Quarter Illustrators of the Future Winners

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1st Quarter Writers of the Future Winners

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1st Quarter Illustrators of the Future Winners

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Here is the list of the 1st Quarter Illustrators of the Future Contest Winner -- Congratulations to all the winners!
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Mega-Best-Selling Author Reveals Secret of Getting Started as a Writer

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With over 200 million copies of his works in print, the late L. Ron Hubbard is the author of dozens of international bestsellers. A newspaper reporter once asked Hubbard if he had any advice for budding writers, to which he replied ...
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Writers of the Future Volume 32

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 32 Releases

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Galaxy Press is very proud to announce its release of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 32!
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Judges and winners and staff of Author Services.

Day 7 – Writers of the Future Volume 32 – Awards Event

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Then the final day came that we have all been building up for -- the L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards...
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Writers judge Dr. Doug Beason.

Day 6 – Writers of the Future Volume 32 Workshop

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Day six began bright and early with an excellent talk by Dr. Doug Beason about handling science in fiction. He provided extensive resources for...
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David Farland and Tim Powers at the writers workshop.

Day 5 – Writers of the Future Volume 32 Workshop

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Workshop day five began with the writers gathering to critique…
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Writers scrambling to finish their 24-hour stories

Day 4 – Writers of the Future Volume 32 Workshop

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Day four began with the writers scrambling to finish their 24-hour stories before the final deadline at 4pm sharp...
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Writer winners with instructor David Farland at Author Services for Day 3 of the workshop.

Day 3 – Writers of the Future Volume 32 Workshop

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Day three kicked off with the arrival of the illustrators at the Author Services building. After they received their tour, the writers and artists...
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L to R: ILOF winner Irvin Rodriguez, Camber Arnhart, Instructor Val Lakey Lindahn, Preston Stone, Maricela Ugarte Pena, Jonas Spokas, Vlada Monakhova, Adrian Massaro, Killian McKeown, Brandon Knight, Paul Otteni, Joni Labaqui, instructor Ron Lindahn, Christina Alberici.

Day 2 – Writers of the Future Volume 32 Workshop

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Day two of the workshop began bright and early heading out at 9 AM. Once the writers were gathered in the hotel lobby, they were ushered down Hollywood Blvd and traipsed across the Walk of Fame...
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L to R: Instructor Tim Powers, Stuart C. Baker, Krystal Claxton, Rachael Jones, Stephen Merlino, KD Julicher, Julie Frost, Matt Dovey, Sylvia Anna Hiven, JW Alden, Instructor David Farland, Jon Lasser, Christoph Weber, Contest Director Joni Labaqui

Day 1 – Writers of the Future Volume 32 Workshop

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Every year the Writers of the Future workshop expands its horizons. It brings in NYT bestselling authors from around the world, hands out wonderful prizes, spends a full week training that year’s crop of up-and-comers, and then ...
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Writers of the Future Honorable Mention

Writers of the Future 4th Quarter Honorable Mentions

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The last quarter of the Writers of the Future Contest was one of our largest on record and it shows in the extensive list of Honorable Mentions for the quarter that ended on September 30th, 2015...
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Writers of the Future Honorable Mention

To Read or to Write: That is the Question

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Writing Tips #11 in the Series Close last year’s Writers…
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Writers of the Future Honorable Mention

Writer Winners – 4th Quarter

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The 4th and final Quarter of the Writers of the Future Contest have just been announced and you can find the winners here.
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Writers of the Future Honorable Mention

Self-Advocacy and Publishing

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Once you have written that story what do you do with it? Obviously you are going to head over to the submit page for Writers of the Future, but after that, what? ...
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Writers of the Future Honorable Mention

The End

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One thing can be worse than the empty page—as you come to the last pages of your Writers of the Future entry, or that book you’ve been planning on submitting to Tor—and that is a full page that leaves the reader unsatisfied...
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Developing Some Character

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Sentences can be passive or active depending on how you construct them. Characters too, can be passive or active based on how you write them. Are they watching things happen around them or are they doing something? ...
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