Episode 44: Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards 2019 Contents May Vary

I've attended the Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards several times now.
In fact, Episode 22 of this podcast was covering the 2017 ceremony. Attending
this awards ceremony is always fun, and this year was no different. This was the
35th annual awards ceremony, and the them was Retro Robotics. 
The keynote was a 'Science Fiction 101' by journalist Ed Hulse. Illustrator Bob
Eggleton was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, who is also the artist
of this year's anthology. 
Andrew Dykstal took home the Grand Prize Writer Award, and Aliya Chen took home
the Grand Prize Illustrator Award. Meanwhile, Alice Wang, who won the fourth
quarter illustrator award, became the youngest winner to enter and win. Finally,
one of the winners, Preston Dennett, submitted 47 times prior to winning this
year, earning 12 honorable mentions over the years. 
While as with all red carpets my interviews here are brief, I did manage to snag
contact information for a couple of the people I talked to in the hopes of
getting longer interviews with them, as I did with Kevin J. Anderson and Nancy
Kress last year. I also have some excerpts from the ceremony itself. 
For complete show notes, go to my website.
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