Cos Writers of the Future Contest: Troubling Ties to abuse..

Sponge · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:52 am

Sponge wrote:

According to their PR, the cult is going to do a live internet broadcast of this year's writers of the future contest, this Sunday, April 15, 2012, 6:30pm PST
http://news.yahoo.com/international-wri ... 03239.html

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 06, 2012

The L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards ceremony, celebrating its 28th anniversary of the internationally-acclaimed Writers of the Future Contest and its companion Illustrators of the Future Contest, will be broadcast on Sunday, April 15th, 6:30 pm (Pacific), to a worldwide audience via Internet, it was announced today. See video invite. Streaming will be live from writersofthefuture.com <<cult link where a special link will be set up.

[...more in article link...]

*bumping* above info for today

edit:Village Voice reports...
Writers of the Future, Today! Scientology Gets Its Party On
By Tony Ortega Sun., Apr. 15 2012
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... sun_20.php
also includes the sunday funnies.

Don Carlo · **Joined:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:20 am **Posts:** 8096

Almost every news media ignored the event. The OC Weekly in Orange County talked about the winners. Lake Forest Writer Published in L. Ron Hubbard Anthology
By Josh Dulaney, Apr. 17 2012 http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2 ... ulptor.php

Most other stories were PR releases put out by CoS groups.

Sponge · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:50 pm

What really amazes me is that they must have spent a considerable sum on organising this event yet the prize money is embrassingly pathetic.
From their own press release:

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The red-carpet event, the 28th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards, offers recognition for both writers and illustrators with trophies, prize money and royalties totaling more than $30,000
[...]

After selecting 12 writing winners and 12 illustration winners, the top four entries in each side of the contest are rejudged to choose two Gold Award winners, each of whom takes home a second trophy and a check for $5,000.

They are as tight as a camel's arse in a sandstorm.
The lack of financial reward wouldn't be so bad if the award actually meant something but it doesn't really, especially after the bad press.

Demented LRH · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:01 pm

Hubbard was a mediocre sci-fi writer, I do not think that winning one of his sci-fi contests is a tremendous boost to one’s writing career.

However, the genre mentioned in the article is fantasy. I am not a fan of the fantasy genre (I kind of hate it), so I do not really know if the Hubbard fantasy contests are beneficial to their participants.

Mest Lover · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:24 am

Someone should write a short story about Xenu and submit it, or perhaps rewrite the entire OT3 thing but change it enough to get past the copyright deal.

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