The top awards in the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest were presented at a ceremony in Los Angeles in April 8 reports Locus Online.
2018 Writers of the Future Golden Pen Award
- Darci Stone for her story “Mara’s Shadow”
2018 Illustrators of the Future Golden Brush Award
- Kyna Tek for his illustration of Erin Cairns’s story “A Smokeless and Scorching Fire”
John Goodwin of Galaxy Press provided this list of Writers / Illustrators finalists.
Writers of the Future
Quarter 1
- First: Jeremy TeGrotenhuise – “The Minarets of An-Zabat”
- Second: Diana Hart – “Miss Smokey”
- Third: Janey Bell – “The Face in the Box”
Quarter 2
- First: Vida Cruz – “Odd and Ugly”
- Second: Amy Gillett – “All Light and Darkness”
- Third: Eneasz Brodski – “Flee My Pretty One”
Quarter 3
- First: Darci Stone – “Mara’s Shadow”
- Second: Erik Bundy – “Turnabout”
- Third: Natalka Roshak – “A Bitter Thing”
Quarter 4
- First: Erin Cairns – “A Smokeless and Scorching Fire”
- Second: Timothy Hehr – “What Lies Beneath”
- Third: Jonathan Ficke – “The Howler on the Sales Floor”
Illustrators of the Future
Quarter 1
- First: Anthony Moravian – “Miss Smokey”
- Second: Duncan Halleck – “All Light and Darkness”
- Third: Bruce Brenneise – “The Face in the Box”
Quarter 2
- First: Adar Darnov – “Turnabout”
- Second: Reyna Rochin – “Odd and Ugly”
- Third: Brenda Rodriguez — “The Minarets of An-Zabat”
Quarter 3
- First: Alana Fletcher – “Flee My Pretty One”
- Second: Maksym Polishchuk – “What Lies Beneath”
- Third: Jazmin Richardson – “A Bitter Thing”
Quarter 4
- First: Kyna Tek – “A Smokeless and Scorching Fire”
- Second: Sidney Yarelis Lugo Cabrera – “The Howler on the Sales Floor”
- Third: Quintin Dee Gleim – “Mara’s Shadow”
The quarterly winners received trophies, and the Golden Awards winners won $5,000.
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