Tag Archive for: Illustrators of the Future

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?
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.”
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.
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.
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 . . .
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…
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.
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.
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.
The writers doing research in preparation for their 24 hour writing assignment (shown left to right: Auston Habershaw, Steve Pantazis, Sam Murray.)

31st Anniversary Writers & Illustrators of the Future Winners!

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Here is the full list of the 31st Anniversary Writers and Illustrators…