Celebrities, Best-Selling Authors, Famous Illustrators to Fete Newcomers at Anniversary Gala in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/—Twelve winning writers and twelve illustrators from around the globe will be honored during the 26th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards at the Roosevelt Hotel—the same location where the first Academy Awards were held— on Saturday, August 28th, 2010.

The highlight of the ceremony will be the announcement of the year's two Grand Prize winners who will each receive $5,000. Quarterly winners also receive cash prizes from $500 to $1,000. Their winning stories and illustrations will appear in the annual anthology L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers and Illustrators of the Future, Volume 26 (Galaxy Press, 2010). Also being released is a special coffee table book edition of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: The First 25 Years, a photographic retrospective of the 25 years of the contest and containing over 1,000 images.


A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. — Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard