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

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Mar 04, 2010, 01:56 ET

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.