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First Round of Honorable Mentions Announced in International Writers of the Future Contest
1st Quarter Honorable Mentions represent entrants from 17 US states and 5 countries
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The first round of the 1st Quarter Honorable Mentions of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest 2010 were announced today. The quarter ended on the 31st of December and the initial judging process of reading all of the stories and deciding the category of each has been ongoing since mid-January. "We have to wait for all entries to arrive from around the world, which takes a few weeks," contest coordinating judge K.D. Wentworth stated.
The second and final set of Honorable Mentions will be announced next week, followed by the semi-finalist and finalist announcement.
Stories that received Honorable Mention status will not go on for final judging but were good enough to merit acknowledgement for being well written. "It is important to acknowledge contestants who have the talent, but didn't quite make the semi-finalist or finalist categories," said Wentworth.
"Out of the thousands of stories that get submitted to the contest, a small percentage make it this far," Wentworth continued. "Past Honorable Mention stories routinely go on to see print in other publications."
FIRST SET OF FIRST QUARTER 2010 HONORABLE MENTIONS | |
Mark Ladouceur of Canada | |
Kathryn Flatt of Illinois | |
David Mahan of New York | |
Desmond Warzel of Pennsylvania | |
Eljay Daly of Pennsylvania | |
Scott Mikula of Washington | |
Lesley Smith of Colorado | |
Liz Colter of Colorado | |
Daniel Braum of New York | |
AnneMarie Buhl of Oregon | |
Ellen Dawn Benefield of California | |
Richard J. Errington of Connecticut | |
J. David of Nevada | |
Robert Boumis of Arizona | |
Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon of Michigan | |
Angela Rega of New South Wales, Australia | |
Alvin Chua of California | |
Von Carr of Delaware | |
Michael Wawrzycki of Louisiana | |
Charles Anderson of Colorado | |
Margaret McCaffey Fisk of Nevada | |
Jakob Drud of Denmark | |
Graeme Williams of London, England | |
Sandra M. Odell of Washington | |
Jennifer Campbell-Hicks of Colorado | |
Amanda Sabourova of California | |
Allen Gies of Michigan | |
Scott Davis of Massachusetts | |
DJ Cockburn of Arizona | |
Tracy S. Morris of Arkansas | |
Elizabeth Coleman of Washington | |
D.M. Bonanno of Illinois | |
Lyn C.A. Gardner of Virginia | |
Rick Novotney of Wisconsin | |
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.
For more information about the contest, go to www.writersofthefuture.com.
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