First Round of Honorable Mentions Announced in International Writers of the Future Contest

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."

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.

SOURCE Writers of the Future Contest