K.C. Norton of State College, Pennsylvania Wins International L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of The Future Contest

K.C. Norton of State College, Pennsylvania will be honored at the 30th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement awards being held on the 13th of April 2014 in Los Angeles. The event will celebrate the annual winners in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests, where K.C. was the 2nd quarter, 3rd place winner for this year, making it further than some several thousand others, and where her winning story, "What Moves the Sun and Other Stars," will be published in the bestselling Science Fiction anthology series - L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume xx.

K.C. is a creative writing student and, along with eleven other winners from all walks of life, will be flown to Los Angeles from all corners of the globe. They will be treated to a week-long workshop taught by the contest blue ribbon panel of judges including Tim Powers (On Stranger Tides), and Dave Wolverton (On My Way to Paradise), and others, followed by the gala awards ceremony.

The Contest was initiated by L. Ron Hubbard in 1984 shortly after returning to the field of science fiction with his bestseller Battlefield Earth, and to date, the contest has launched the careers of 12 New York Times bestselling authors.

For more information on the contest, go to http://www.writersofthefuture.com.