Honorable Mentions Announced in International Writers of the Future Contest

2nd Quarter First List of Honorable Mentions represent entrants from 17 US states and 5 countries

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Jul 01, 2010, 08:07 ET

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2nd Quarter Honorable Mentions of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest were announced today.

"Stories that received Honorable Mention status were good enough to merit acknowledgement for being well written. The selected stories for this category did not make the semi-finalist or finalist category," contest coordinating judge K.D. Wentworth stated.

"Out of the thousands of stories that get submitted to the contest, a very small percentage make it this far," Wentworth continued. "This is the first list of Honorable Mentions. A second Honorable Mention list will be announced in a few weeks as we get closer to our decision on which stories will make the semi-finalist and finalist categories."

"Out of the 1,800 science fiction and fantasy novels published yearly — most of them are written by established authors. The odds increase dramatically if you live in a foreign country, where publishers are rare or non-existent. This is one very effective way to get in the door for the newcomer from anywhere in the world."


SECOND QUARTER HONORABLE MENTIONS 2010 - FIRST LIST

Daniel Ausema of Colorado
Alan Baxter of New South Wales, Australia
Jacquelyn Bartel of California
Diana Elena Betancur of New Jersey
Chris Boardman of Colorado
Barry Burnett, MD of Colorado
A.D. Callaway of Colorado
Kater Cheek of Arizona
Alvin G. Chua of California
Jeffrey Creer of Utah
Laura Dragon of Ontario, Canada
Dave Dunn of Florida
Sarah Frost of Kansas
Stuart D. Gibbon of West Australia
G.K. Hayes of Georgia
J. Scott Hill of Missouri
John Kurt of Colorado
Kamila Z. Miller of Washington
Jared Millet of Alabama
Monte McCord of Arizona
Timothy Miller of Wisconsin
Meghan Muriel of New York
Yeoryios Pantazis of Ontario, Canada
Beth Plutchak of Wisconsin
Robert Pritchard of California
Francesco Radicati of London, England
Daniel Roy of Quebec, Canada
Jack Ryan of Arkansas
David Steffen of Minnesota
Steve Szalai of British Columbia, Canada
S. Boyd Taylor of Texas
Michael Vella of Malta
Scott E. Vilhauer of California
Tom L. Waters of New Mexico

The annual winners of the contest are published in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology. The contest to date has discovered 7 authors who have gone on to be New York Times bestsellers and the contest has also launched hundreds of other writing careers.

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, K.D. Wentworth, Eric Flint, Mike Resnick, Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.