As it appeared in national media! - 3rd Quarter Illustrator Winners Announced

WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN INTERNATIONAL
ILLUSTRATORS OF THE FUTURE CONTEST

3RD Quarter Winners in the famed contest are all women

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HOLLYWOOD – The 3rd Quarter winners of the 26th year of the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest were announced today by Joni Labaqui, the contest Director.

The winners for this quarter are from California and the Ukraine.

THIRD QUARTER WINNERS

Jordan Cornthwaite of Carlsbad, California
Rebecca Gleason of Los Angeles, California
Irena Giraud of Chernigov, Ukraine

They were chosen from a group of 8 finalists and are now awarded cash prizes, a week long intensive workshop, an awards ceremony and are also published in the annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future. Jordan, Rebecca and Irena will receive a cash prize for their win this quarter.

The winners announced today will now compete with the other winners of the year for the Grand Prize of $5,000.00. They will now be required to create an illustration for a story sent to them from the pool of writer winners from the companion Writers of the Future contest. This is the final test. The illustrator who best illustrates the story sent to them wins the big cash prize.

Well-known contest judges include Frank Frazetta, Laura Brodian Freas, Stephen Hickman, Cliff Nielsen, Stephan Martiniere, Bob Eggleton, Ron Lindahn and Val Lakey Lindahn.

For more information about the contest, go to www.writersofthefuture.com.
On the home page click on “contest rules”. Just below the writer rules you will find the illustrator rules.

3rd Quarter Writer Winners Announced!

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WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN INTERNATIONAL
WRITERS OF THE FUTURE CONTEST

3RD Quarter Winners are from Three Countries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HOLLYWOOD – The 3rd Quarter winners of the 26th year of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest were announced today by Joni Labaqui, the contest Director.

The winners for this quarter are from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

THIRD QUARTER WINNERS

1st Place - Brent Knowles of Alberta, Canada
2nd Place - Adam Colston of Devon, United Kingdom
3rd Place - Brad Torgersen of Utah

They were chosen from a group of 8 finalists and are awarded cash prizes, a week long intensive workshop, an awards ceremony and are also published in the annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future. Brent, Adam and Brad will receive a cash prize for their win this quarter.

A Grand Prize winner is announced at the annual awards ceremony and is selected by another panel of judges. Brent Knowles will now compete with the other first place winners from the other quarters for the Grand Prize of $5,000.00.

Well-known contest judges include multiple Nebula and Hugo Award winners and finalists such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Dave Wolverton, Sean Williams and K.D. Wentworth, to name a few.

“The chance of being published elsewhere in the publishing industry is much, much smaller,” Labaqui said. “Only three out of every 10,000 manuscripts submitted in the United States each year get published—1,800 are science fiction and fantasy novels—and most of them are written by established authors. This is one very effective way to get in the door for the newcomer.”

3rd Quarter Illustrators of the Future Contest Semi-Finalists and Finalists Announced!

Finally - we have our Semi-Finalists and Finalists for
the 3rd Quarter. Semi-Finalists get a critique from
our coordinating judge Ron Lindahn. Finalists art
goes to 4 of our judges and 3 will be winners.

Semi-Finalists:

Kennedy Cooke-Garza of Texas
Starla Friend of Texas
Bethany Koll of Connecticut
Gretchen Lewis of California
Anthony May of Oregon
Zakary Newman of Ohio
Nick Oliveto of Michigan
Tony Zukas of Ohio

FINALISTS:

Jordan Cornthwaite of California
Irena Giraud of Ukraine - Russia
Rebecca Gleason of California
Ashley Goh of Virginia
Scott Hargrave of Indiana
Joey Jordan of Washington
Steve Laws of Colorado
Brianna Wu of Massacussetts

Congratulations to all of you! We will announce
the winners as soon as possible!