The Authors Quill Author 1st hr Thomas Slee & Artist Nathan Deiwert 3rd hr Author Thomas Eggenberger

Windsor, Victoria, Australia writer Thomas Slee. He is officially announced as a winner in our international contest, The Writers of the Future and, as a winner, we'll be flying him to Hollywood for an awards event (April 16, 2026), a week-long, master-class workshop with some of the top names in the industry Windsor, Victoria, Australia writer Thomas Slee. He is officially announced as a winner in our international contest, The Writers of the Future and, as a winner, we'll be flying him to Hollywood for an awards event (April 16, 2026), a week-long, master-class workshop with some of the top names in the industry (Some of our writer contest judges conduct the workshop), and his winning story will be published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 42 which has been on bestseller lists numerous times in recent years. Nathan Deiwert, an illustrator led by a desire to craft worlds, creates imaginative creatures and characters that coincide with one another. Deiwert is driven to come up with new ways to develop familiar concepts in the form of paintings, digital illustrations, and visual development. From fear-inducing entities to happy moments, he creates work with thought and explores new ideas. For Deiwert, active research is a considerable portion of the process of the creation of his art; be it artistic influences past and present, anatomy or cultures. His favorite influences are presently Frank Frazetta, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. Thomas R. Eggenberger penned his first stories as a child in the small Ohio town where he was born. Continuing to write as he lived in Japan and France and traveled much of the world, he’s now up to six manuscripts and a book’s worth of short stories (and counting). When not hanging out with his lovely wife or spoiling his dogs, he works on unconventional fantasy trilogies and a wild range of science fiction stories. He has previously been published in Fiction on the Web and Fairlight Shorts, and received two Silver Honorable Mentions from the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest before winning this time. The Contest, one of the most prestigious writing and illustrating competitions in the world, is currently in its 43rd year and is judged by some of the premier names in speculative fiction.