HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The L.
Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards ceremony, celebrating its 35th
anniversary of the internationally-acclaimed Writers of the Future
Contest and its companion Illustrators of the Future Contest, will
be broadcast on Friday, April 5,
7:30 PM (Pacific), to a worldwide
audience via the Internet, it was announced today. Streaming will
be live from http://www.writersofthefuture.com where a countdown to
the event can currently be seen.
Themed around the book cover art entitled "One of Our Robots Is
Missing" painted by award-winning artist Bob Eggleton, the opening act will be performed
by EMCirque and a Mars Rover
prototype.
The evening ceremony will be held before a packed hall of
invited guests, celebrities, and many of speculative fiction's most
popular writers and illustrators at The Taglyan Complex in
Los Angeles, all gathered to find
out who will win the Writers of the Future Golden Pen award and a
$5,000 check and the Illustrators of
the Future Golden Brush award and their $5,000 check.
"You could call the Writers of the Future Contest 'The American
Idol for Writers'—long before there ever was an American Idol,"
said USA Today and New York Times best-selling author and Contest
judge Kevin J. Anderson (Dune
prequels, Saga of Seven Suns, Star Wars). "It's amazing to me that
a good 60 to 70 percent of the winners go on with successful
careers in writing, and several have become best-selling authors
themselves."
As the top names in the science fiction and fantasy world,
Contest judges will be on hand to present the annual awards to this
year's writer and illustrator winners as well as the grand prize
winner for each Contest. Writer judges who will be attending
include Kevin J. Anderson,
Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Orson
Scott Card, David Farland,
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Todd McCaffrey, Rebecca
Moesta, Larry Niven,
Jody Lynn Nye, Nnedi Okorafor, Tim
Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, and
Dean Wesley Smith. Illustrator
judges will include Echo and Lazarus
Chernik, Bob Eggleton,
Larry Elmore, Val Lakey Lindahn, Sergey Poyarkov, and
Rob Prior.
"This annual gala ceremony for new writers and illustrators of
science fiction and fantasy is such a moving experience that we
want all speculative fiction fans everywhere and the friends and
families of this year's winners to witness it," said Joni Labaqui,
the Contests' director.
Every quarter, three writers and three illustrators are selected
by a panel of leading authors and artists of science fiction and
fantasy. With no entry fee and judging done on an anonymous basis,
the criterion is strictly merit. Beside first time publication,
benefits include over $30,000 in cash
prizes and royalties, a week-long workshop with top professionals
of the genre as well as book signings, radio, and TV interviews
organized by the contest administrators to assist the winners in
launching their careers.
Please note, this is a live broadcast, so check your time zone
for when it will show in your location. You can follow the live
countdown to the achievement awards at
http://www.writersofthefuture.com.
For more information, on the Contests, go to
http://www.writersofthefuture.com.
SOURCE Writers of the Future