Multiple Award Winning Science Fiction Author, Mike Resnick, Named as Judge for Worldwide Writers Contest

International award winning science fiction and fantasy author and senior editor for Jim Baen's Universe, Mike Resnick has been named as a judge in the highly acclaimed L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, it was announced by Author Services, Inc., the literary agency and administrator of the Contest.

Now in its 25th year, the Writers of the Future Contest awards annual cash prizes totaling $30,000 for writers and illustrators of never-before-published works of science fiction and fantasy. It includes annual publication of the year's winning stories in the anthology titled L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future. (Galaxy Press).

When approached to be judge for the contest, Resnick simply stated, "I really will love doing this. I am a firm believer in paying forward. Count me in." He had been aware of the contest since its inception 25 years ago. "Over the years it has become and remains the leading venue for the recognition of talented new writers. It has had competition from time to time, which is always healthy and beneficial, but Writers of the Future alone endures, which bespeaks its value to the field."

Resnick has been writing science fiction for over 40 years and has authored over 50 novels and over 200 stories. According to Locus magazine, he is the all-time leading award winner for short fiction. He is the winner of 5 Hugo awards, 2 Prix Ozone (France) awards, a Seiun-sho (Japanese Hugo), a Prix Tour Eiffel (France), 2 Sfinx awards (Poland), a Golden Pagoda, A Hayakawa (Japan), 5 Asimov polls, 6 Science Fiction Chronicle polls, a Locus Award, a Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement and many more.

And so he is warmly welcomed into the ranks of contest judges for Writers of the Future that includes other notable science fiction authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Sean Williams and Dave Wolverton.

The Writers of the Future Contest was established by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983 to discover and provide talented new and aspiring writers of science fiction and fantasy a chance to have their work seen and acknowledged.


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