Speculative Fiction Contest Winners Landing Deals Quickly After Winning Writers of the Future

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom Crosshill of New York went from non-published writer to three professional sales in 9 months, with his sale of The Zombie of His Early Days to Flash Fiction Online. K.C. Ball of Seattle received notice that Analog Magazine was picking up her story, Flotsam for the September issue, while Jason Fischer of Australia heard that his short fiction horror story, Busking had just been nominated for the 2009 Australian Shadows Award, given by the Australian Horror Writers Association. This news was all in February and came shortly after these writers were announced as winners of the internationally acclaimed L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.

The international Writers of the Future Contest was established in 1983 by L. Ron Hubbard "to discover and provide talented new and aspiring writers of science fiction and fantasy a chance to have their work seen and acknowledged." And this is certainly the case in 2010 - only at lightning speed in its 27th year running. The Contest awards annual cash prizes totaling $30,000 for writers and illustrators of never-before-published works of science fiction and fantasy and has 4 quarterly winners throughout the year. It includes annual publication of the year's winning stories in the bestselling anthology titled L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future. (Galaxy Press).

Tom, K.C. and Jason are all stacking up the publishing contracts, with more in the works, and their volume of Writers of the Future has not even been published yet. It is due out in August of this year.

"My second publishing deal came at the ceremony when my Writers of the Future volume was released", said Dave Wolverton – Grand Prize winner in Volume 3, twenty-four years ago, and now after multiple New York Times best-selling books - a contest judge. "The contest has become so successful, thousands now enter quarterly with the hope of getting big prize money and the exposure that winning the contest provides you. The contest winners today are getting in the publishing door much sooner."

Writers of the Future Contest judges include notable science fiction authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Sean Williams and Dave Wolverton.

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

SOURCE Writers of the Future Contest