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Anonymous
HOLLYWOOD, CA--A theoretical physicist, a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, a consultant on environmental hazards and a specialist in the field of information technology are the four candidates for the grand prize in the International L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest--the largest and most influential literary competition of its kind.
One of the four--each a first place quarterly winner in the 2002 Contest for the best new and aspiring writers of speculative fiction--will walk away with the Hubbard Gold Award for "Story of the Year" and an additional cash prize of $4,000.00. Each of the first place winners also receives a $1,000.00 quarterly prize.
Presentation of the grand prize will cap the 19th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Ceremony to be held in Beverly Hills on August 9, 2003.
Vying for the Hubbard Gold Awards are:
* Carl Frederik, a theoretical physicist from Ithaca, New York with "A Boy and his Bicycle"
* Matthew Candeleria, a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas in Lawrence with "Trust is a Child"
* Ian Keane, environmental hazard consultant from Santa Fe, New Mexico with "Walking Rain" and
* Joseph Lake, an information technology specialist from Portland, Oregon with "Into the Gardens of Sweet Night"
The candidates reflect a wide diversity of personal and geographic backgrounds but have in common the compelling aspirations of the beginning writer and the wish to seize the opportunity presented each year by the Writers of the Future Contest to discover and launch the best new writers in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
All of their winning stories will be published in the annual collection, "L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XIX" (Galaxy Press, $7.99) releasing in August.
Judges of the Contest include a host of New York Times and international best selling authors in the genre, from Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert and K. D. Wentworth to Anne McCaffrey, Robert Silverberg, Andre Norton and Tim Powers.
L. Ron Hubbard established the Writers of the Future contest in 1983 as the culmination of his life-long commitment to helping other writers and to provide, "a means for new and budding writers to have a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged."
Winners of the contest have gone on to publish more than 250 novels--including New York Times and international bestsellers--and to sell over 2,000 short stories in the fields of speculative fiction and other major genres.
For more information visit www.writersofthefuture.com.
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