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Recent Writers of the Future Winner Receives Second Professional Award From National Space Society, Jim Baen's Universe Magazine

Posted on: Thursday, 11 June 2009, 16:01 CDT

BOONTON, N.J., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- New Jersey resident Patrick Lundrigan, who won the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award, an international contest for new writers of science fiction and fantasy, last year, has won the 2009 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest jointly sponsored by the National Space Society and Jim Baen's Universe Magazine.

Lundrigan was one of 12 new and aspiring writers who won in the 24th annual L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest last year, named after the best-selling author. The writers were published for the first time in a print anthology, received cash prizes, and took part in a week-long professional writing workshop.

The 2009 Jim Baen Memorial award honored Lundrigan's story, "Burst Mode." The award is "designed to promote and reward forward-thinking science fiction authors who write exciting and innovative stories about the near future of manned space exploration," according to the sponsors.

Ironically, Lundrigan's winning story had been previously entered, but did not win, in an earlier submission to the Writers of the Future Contest. "I rewrote it before sending it out again," said Lundrigan. "I wanted to put all the great information I learned at the Writers of the Future workshop to good use."

"This is why Mr. Hubbard created our contest to help people just like Patrick get the break they need to succeed in the highly-competitive publishing business," said Joni Labaqui, Writers of the Future Contest Director. "We're thrilled for Patrick and congratulate his growth as a writer." The Contests were begun by multiple best-selling writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1983 shortly after his own successful return to science fiction with the international bestseller, Battlefield Earth.

For more information go to www.writersofthefuture.com.

SOURCE Writers of the Future

Source: PR Newswire

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