Honorable Mentions Announced in International Writers of the Future Contest

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."

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.

For more information about the contest, go to www.writersofthefuture.com.

SOURCE Writers of the Future Contest