Writers of the Future, Volume 28 (57 page)

FIRST QUARTER

1. Marie Croke

OF WOVEN WOOD

2.
Gerald Warfield

THE POLY ISLANDS

3. Harry Lang

MY NAME IS ANGELA

SECOND QUARTER

1. William Ledbetter

THE RINGS OF MARS

2.
Nick T. Chan

THE COMMAND FOR LOVE

3.
Corry L. Lee

SHUTDOWN

THIRD QUARTER

1.
William Mitchell

CONTACT AUTHORITY

2.
M. O. Muriel

THE SIREN

3.
Jacob A. Boyd

LOST PINE

FOURTH QUARTER

1. David Carani

THE PARADISE APERTURE

2.
Scott T. Barnes

INSECT SCULPTOR

3.
Tom Doyle

WHILE IRELAND HOLDS THESE GRAVES

Published Finalist:
Roy Hardin

FAST DRAW

For the year 2011, the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest winners are:

FIRST QUARTER

Hunter Bonyun

Greg Opalinski

Carly Trowbridge

SECOND QUARTER

Mago Huang

Jay Richard

J. F. Smith

THIRD QUARTER

John W. Haverty Jr.

Fiona Meng

Pat R. Steiner

FOURTH QUARTER

Emily Grandin

Paul Pederson

Rhiannon Taylor

Our heartiest congratulations to all the winners!

May we see much more of their work in the future.

NEW WRITERS!

L. Ron Hubbard’s

Writers of the
Future
Contest

Opportunity for new and amateur
writers of new short stories or novelettes of science fiction or fantasy. No
entry fee is required. Entrants retain all publication rights.

ALL AWARDS ARE ADJUDICATED BY
PROFESSIONAL WRITERS ONLY

Prizes every three months:
$1,000, $750, $500
Annual Grand Prize:$5,000 additional!

Don’t delay! Send your
entry now!

To submit your entry electronically go to:
www.writersofthefuture.com/submit-your-story

E-mail:
[email protected]

To submit your entry via mail send
to:

L. Ron Hubbard’s
Writers of the
Future Contest
PO Box 1630
Los Angeles, California 90078

WRITERS’ CONTEST RULES

1. No entry fee is required, and
all rights in the story remain the property of the author. All types of
science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy are welcome.

2. By submitting to the Contest,
the entrant agrees to abide by all Contest rules.

3. All entries must be original
works, in English. Plagiarism, which includes the use of third-party poetry,
song lyrics, characters or another person’s universe, without written
permission, will result in disqualification. Excessive violence or sex,
determined by the judges, will result in disqualification. Entries may not
have been previously published in professional media.

4. To be eligible, entries must
be works of prose, up to 17,000 words in length. We regret we cannot
consider poetry, or works intended for children.

5. The Contest is open only to
those who have not professionally published a novel or short novel, or more
than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium.
Professional publication is deemed to be payment of at least five cents per
word, and at least 5,000 copies, or 5,000 hits.

6. Entries submitted in hard
copy must be typewritten or a computer printout in black ink on white paper,
printed only on the front of the paper, double-spaced, with numbered pages.
All other formats will be disqualified. Each entry must have a cover page
with the title of the work, the author’s legal name, a pen name if
applicable, address, telephone number, e-mail address and an approximate word
count. Every subsequent page must carry the title and a page number, but the
author’s name must be deleted to facilitate fair, anonymous
judging.

Entries submitted electronically
must be double-spaced and must include the title and page number on each
page, but not the author’s name. Electronic submissions will separately
include the author’s legal name, pen name if applicable, address, telephone
number, e-mail address and approximate word count.

7. Manuscripts will be returned
after judging only if the author has provided return postage on a
self-addressed envelope.

8. We accept only entries that
do not require a delivery signature for us to receive them.

9. There shall be three cash
prizes in each quarter: a First Prize of $1,000, a Second Prize of $750, and
a Third Prize of $500, in US dollars. In addition, at the end of the year
the four First Place winners will have their entries rejudged, and a Grand
Prize winner shall be determined and receive an additional $5,000. All
winners will also receive trophies.

10. The Contest has four
quarters, beginning on October 1, January 1, April 1 and July 1. The year
will end on September 30. To be eligible for judging in its quarter, an
entry must be postmarked or received electronically no later than midnight
on the last day of the quarter. Late entries will be included in the
following quarter and the Contest Administration will so notify the
entrant.

11. Each entrant may submit only
one manuscript per quarter. Winners are ineligible to make further entries
in the Contest.

12. All entries for each quarter
are final. No revisions are accepted.

13. Entries will be judged by
professional authors. The decisions of the judges are entirely their own,
and are final.

14. Winners in each quarter will
be individually notified of the results by phone, mail or e-mail.

15. This Contest is void where
prohibited by law.

16. To send your entry
electronically, go to:
www.writersofthefuture.com/submit-your-story
and follow the instructions.

To send your entry in hard copy,
mail it to:

L. Ron Hubbard’s
Writers of the Future Contest
PO Box 1630
Los Angeles,
California 90078

17. Visit the website for any
Contest rules updates at
www.writersofthefuture.com
.

NEW ILLUSTRATORS!

L. Ron Hubbard’s

Illustrators of
the
Future Contest

Opportunity for new science
fiction and fantasy artists worldwide. No entry fee is required. Entrants
retain all publication rights.

ALL JUDGING BY PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS
ONLY

$1,500 in prizes each
quarter.
Quarterly winners compete for $5,000 additional annual
prize!

Don’t delay! Send your
entry now!

To submit your entry electronically go to:
www.writersofthefuture.com/submit-you-illustration

E-mail:
[email protected]

To submit your entry via mail send
to:

L. Ron Hubbard’s
Illustrators of
the Future Contest
PO Box 3190
Los Angeles, California
90078

ILLUSTRATORS’ CONTEST RULES

1. The Contest is open to
entrants from all nations. (However, entrants should provide themselves with
some means for written communication in English.) All themes of science
fiction and fantasy illustrations are welcome: every entry is judged on its
own merits only. No entry fee is required and all rights to the entry remain
the property of the artist.

2. By submitting to the Contest,
the entrant agrees to abide by all Contest rules.

3. The Contest is open to new
and amateur artists who have not been professionally published and paid for
more than three black-and-white story illustrations, or more than one
process-color painting, in media distributed broadly to the general public.
The ultimate eligibility criterion, however, is defined by the word
“amateur”—in other words, the artist has not been paid for his artwork. If
you are not sure of your eligibility, please write a letter to the Contest
Administration with details regarding your publication history. Include a
self-addressed and stamped envelope for the reply. You may also send your
questions to the Contest Administration via e-mail.

4. Each entrant may submit only
one set of illustrations in each Contest quarter. The entry must be original
to the entrant and previously unpublished. Plagiarism, infringement of the
rights of others, or other violations of the Contest rules will result in
disqualification. Winners in previous quarters are not eligible to make
further entries.

5. The entry shall consist of
three illustrations done by the entrant in a color or black-and-white medium
created from the artist’s imagination. Use of gray scale in illustrations
and mixed media, computer generated art, and the use of photography in the
illustrations are accepted. Each illustration must represent a subject
different from the other two.

6. ENTRIES SHOULD NOT BE THE
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, but should be color or black-and-white reproductions of
the originals of a quality satisfactory to the entrant. Entries must be
submitted unfolded and flat, in an envelope no larger than 9 inches by 12
inches.

7. All hardcopy entries must be
accompanied by a self-addressed return envelope of the appropriate size,
with the correct US postage affixed. (Non-US entrants should enclose
international postage reply coupons.) If the entrant does not want the
reproductions returned, the entry should be clearly marked DISPOSABLE
COPIES: DO NOT RETURN. A business-size self-addressed envelope with correct
postage (or valid e-mail address) should be included so that the judging
results may be returned to the entrant.

We only accept entries that do
not require a delivery signature for us to receive them.

8. To facilitate anonymous
judging, each of the three photocopies must be accompanied by a removable
cover sheet bearing the artist’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail
address and an identifying title for that work. The reproduction of the work
should carry the same identifying title on the front of the illustration and
the artist’s signature should be deleted. The Contest Administration will
remove and file the cover sheets, and forward only the anonymous entry to
the judges.

9. There will be three
co-winners in each quarter. Each winner will receive an outright cash grant
of US $500 and a trophy. Winners will also receive eligibility to compete
for the annual Grand Prize of an additional cash grant of $5,000 together
with the annual Grand Prize trophy.

10. For the annual Grand Prize
Contest, the quarterly winners will be furnished with a specification sheet
and a winning story from the Writers of the Future Contest to illustrate. In
order to retain eligibility for the Grand Prize, each winner shall send to
the Contest address his/her illustration of the assigned story within thirty
(30) days of receipt of the story assignment.

The yearly Grand Prize winner
shall be determined by the judges on the following basis only:

Each Grand Prize judge’s
personal opinion on the extent to which it makes the judge want to read the
story it illustrates.

The Grand Prize winner shall be
announced at the L.RonHubbard Awards Event held in the following
year.

11. The Contest has four
quarters, beginning on October 1, January 1, April 1 and July 1. The year
will end on September 30. To be eligible for judging in its quarter, an
entry must be postmarked no later than midnight on the last day of the
quarter. Late entries will be included in the following quarter and the
Contest Administration will so notify the entrant.

12. Entries will be judged by
professional artists only. Each quarterly judging and the Grand Prize
judging may have different panels of judges. The decisions of the judges are
entirely their own and are final.

13. Winners in each quarter will
be individually notified of the results by mail or e-mail.

14. This Contest is void where
prohibited by law.

15. To send your entry
electronically, go to:
www.writersofthefuture.com/submit-your-illustration
and follow the instructions.

To send your entry via mail send
it to:

L. Ron Hubbard’s
Illustrators of the Future Contest
PO Box 3190
Los Angeles,
California 90078

18. Visit the website for any
Contest rules updates at
www.writersofthefuture.com
.