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Auston Habershaw on stage accepting his award during the Annual Awards Ceremony

Auston Habershaw – Conjurer of Stories

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Today's feature is on Auston Habershaw, one of the 13 winners…
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Illustrator winner Daniel Tyka, arriving in sunny Los Angeles, California from Warsaw, Poland

Now Available – Writers of the Future Volume 31

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For everyone who has been following our blog, you know that today is a very special day for the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Winners who are published in the latest anthology. Today is not only International Star Wars Day (May the 4th Be With You), it is also the official release of Volume 31 of this bestselling anthology.
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Daniel J. Davis on stage accepting his award with presenters Sean Williams and Sergey Poyarkov

Daniel J. Davis and Alex Brock

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Although some of the winning stories contain a sense of humor, it isn’t often that one wins that is humorous. But, that’s exactly what Daniel J. Davis’ story is and here is the story behind what inspired him to write it.
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Sean Williams congratulating the new winners at the Writers of the Future Awards Ceremony 2015.

Sean Williams

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Bestselling author, Sean Williams has been referred to as “the premier Australian speculative fiction writer of the age.” And to readers around the world, he is a wordsmith who continues to entertain and enthrall them with his stories.
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Kary English, on stage at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles accepting her award.

Kary English & Megen Nelson – A Winning Pair

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Today we are spotlighting author Kary English, whose fantasy short story "Poseidon's Eyes" is one of over a dozen award-winning titles in 2015 edition of Writers of the Future.
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Author Steve Pantazis signing Kevin J. Anderson’s copy of Writers of the Future Volume 31

Author & Artist’s Creative Efforts

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In addition to hosting the Writers and Illustrators of the Future winners who come to Los Angeles for the week-long workshop and awards celebration, I get to meet all these new and upcoming writers and artists. Steve Pantazis is one of the writer winners for his story "Switch."
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Rebecca Moesta on stage at the Writers of the Future Annual Awards Celebration

Rebecca Moesta

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Writers of the Future Judge Rebecca Moesta has helped an entire generation embrace reading through her Junior Jedi Knights and Young Jedi Knights series, considered some of the foundation stories of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
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Michael T. Banker on stage at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles to accept his award.

New Story Inspires Award-Winning Art

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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?
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William Pomerantz (far left) with David Farland, Sharon Joss, Michelle Lockamy, Larry Elmore and the Winner Twins at the Annual Awards Celebration

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

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William Pomerantz, VP for Special Projects at Virgin Galactic…
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Scott R. Parkin, author of “Purposes Made for Alien Minds”

Scott R. Parkin – There Is No Looking Back

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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.”
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Dave Dorman

Dave Dorman – A Legend in the Star Wars Universe

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You may not know this but back when there was no Illustrators of the Future Contest, we commissioned artists to illustrate the winning stories. That was when we first came into contact with Dave Dorman—he illustrated “Rachel's Wedding” in Writers of the Future Volume V, published in 1989.
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Sharon Joss on stage accepting the 2015 Golden Pen award with David Farland looking on.

Read a Lot. Write a Lot. Submit a Lot. Repeat

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Read a Lot. Write a Lot. Submit a Lot. Repeat This is the best advice I can give you. And as it is it, it is not my advice—it is from Sharon Joss, this year's grand prize winner of the Writers of the Future Contest.
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David Farland and Tim Powers co-instructors at the Writers of the Future Workshop

Dave Wolverton & Star Wars

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Dave Wolverton, also known as David Farland, is our Coordinating Judge and first reader, as is widely known. He is also the co-instructor in our annual writers workshop for winners of the Writer Contest. Dave's career started in 1987 when he won the grand prize award in the...
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Writer & Illustrator Winners along with the Judges at the 2015 Annual Awards Ceremony

31 Years

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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 . . .
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The opening of the 2015 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards ceremony held at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles.

And the Winner Is…

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On the evening of April 12th, science fiction and fantasy writers…
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Guest speaker Nathan Fowkes talks to the Illustrator winners

WotF Workshop – Day 6

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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.
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Writers and Illustrators holding a copy of the book with their winning stories and illustrations outside Bang Printing in Valencia, California

WotF Workshop – Day 5

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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.
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Group shot of the artists with their illustration and the authors to the stories.

WotF Workshop – Day 4

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Today was an emotional day where the illustrator winners got to show the illustrations they did for the winning stories to the writers for the first time—but more on that below.
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The writers doing research in preparation for their 24 hour writing assignment (shown left to right: Auston Habershaw, Steve Pantazis, Sam Murray.)

Wotf Workshop – Day 3

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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.
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The Writer Workshop begins with instructors Dave Farland and Tim Powers.

WotF Workshop – Day 2

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Day Two started out bright and early—we were set to meet at 9:00am in the lobby and I know the writers were all excited to be there because everyone was early. Dan Davis admitted he had arrived nearly an hour early. Tim Powers asked him why he would be so early.
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Illustrator winner Daniel Tyka, arriving in sunny Los Angeles, California from Warsaw, Poland

WotF Workshop – Day 1

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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...
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