WRITERS OF THE FUTURE winners at the 10th annual awards ceremony. After winning the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, winners have gone on to sell nearly 100 novels and 1,000 short stories.

     Given that Mr. Hubbard originally began his career in an era when popular fiction carried elaborate illustrations, it was only fitting that he would also inspire the companion Illustrators of the Future Contest. Founded to encourage the speculative fiction artist, it provides winning contestants with both cash awards and publication in the annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology. That anthology, incidentally, has become the best-selling work of its kind, and has proven the springboard to the publication of further works. In fact, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest has, to date, helped place more than 100 new novels on American shelves.