Darci Stone (center) with fellow writer winners Cole Hehr and Amy Henrie Gillette.

Darci Stone’s Confession on Winning

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Darci Stone is the 2018 Writers of the Future Contest grand price Golden Pen Award winner and in this article find out inspired her story and she did to win.
Matt Dovey with a cuppa tea

Matt Dovey: Two Years Later

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From aspiring writer to writing contest winner to—let’s find out! It has been nearly two years since Matt Dovey was announced as the Golden Pen Award winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future writing contest. As a contest for aspiring writers, we thought we would find out how winning the writing contest has affected Matt.
Jake Marley on stage with Dave Farland and Erika Christensen

Jake Marley: One Year Later

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It has been nearly a year since Jake Marley was announced as the Golden Pen Award winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future writing contest. As a contest for aspiring writers, we thought we would find out how winning the writing contest has affected Jake. So we asked him.
Author Jake Marley

Lou J. Berger on Writers of the Future

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Lou J. Berger writes about his experience with the Writers of the Future Contest and his journey as a writer.
Roberta and Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle Leaves a Legacy of Helping New Writers (1933-2017)

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L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest Pays Tribute to Jerry Pournelle (1933 - 2017). Jerry leaves a legacy of helping new writers.
Jake Marley being interviewed at LA Festival of Book

Persevere

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It's been nearly a year since I found out I was a finalist for L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest, and very nearly five months since I was announced as the 2017 Golden Pen Award winner. To say my life has changed feels like an understatement.
Ken Liu, photo by Lisa Tang Liu

Ken Liu on Writing a Star Wars Book

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So, the news is out: I’m writing a Star Wars book as part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi project. Working with the team at Lucasfilm Publishing has been such a pleasure — they’re the best.
Jeremy TeG

Meet the Winners – Jeremy TeGrotenhuis – 1st Q 2017

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A couple of years ago I decided to stop blogging in order to focus on improving my fiction, and, well, I just won Writers of the Future, so that seems to have worked.
Jake Marley on stage with the Golden Pen Award

Writing the Future: Thoughts on the Writers of the Future Contest

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I can admit that when I first heard about the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest, I was skeptical. On the surface it seemed too good to be true.
Author Jake Marley

Meet the winner – Jake Marley

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Writers of the Future alumni C Stuart Hardwick interviewed the winners from this year's contest. Here's his interview with Jake Marley, author of "Acquisition."