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The 3rd quarter winners of the 34th year of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest were announced today. “The finalist stories were once again exceptionally good this quarter,” contest coordinating judge David Farland said. This year has been a banner year of excellent stories.
THE 3rd QUARTER WINNERS ARE
1st Place – Darci Stone from Utah 2nd Place – Eric Bundy from North Carolina 3rd Place – N.R.M Roshak from Ontario, Canada
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, which has become a perennial national bestseller.
Darci is an educator, Erik is retired and now a writer and Natalka is a Database Administrator and Programmer. Darci, as first place winner for this quarter will now compete with the remaining 1st place winners from the other quarters for the grand prize of $5,000.00. The grand prize winner will be announced at the annual event which will take place on the 8th of April, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. All three of the winners had heard of the contest through previous winners and were encouraged to enter.
“We also have a ‘first’ for the contest in that 1st place winner Darci Stone is the wife of a former winner, Eric James Stone, who won the contest in 2004. But I can assure you, this was not known during the judging process because stories are anonymously entered and judged. We have no idea who the authors of the stories we are reading are – until the contest administrator informs us after judging is complete,” Farland continued.
Contest judges include: Tim Powers, author of On Stranger Tides, Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert, Dune, Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn series, Todd McCaffrey the Dragons of Pern series, Robert J. Sawyer, Flash Forward, Robert Silverberg, Sailing to Byzantium, Larry Niven, Ringworld, Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game and Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Eric Flint, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, Rebecca Moesta, Jody Lynn Nye, Nnedi Okorafor, Mike Resnik, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith and Sean Williams.
Literary legend L. Ron Hubbard started the contest in 1984 to help new writers get a leg up in a very competitive field. The contest has launched the careers of hundreds of authors and 12 New York Times bestsellers.
For more information about the contest, go to www.writersofthefuture.com. On the home page click on “contest rules.”
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