Writers and Illustrators of the Future Winners

Winners of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future competition were announced at a 25th anniversary gala and banquet held August 29, 2009 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.

Emery Huang won the $5,000 grand prize for story “Garden of Tian Zi”, and Oleksandra Barysheva won the artist’s grand prize for her illustration of C.L. Holland’s story “The Reflection of Memory.” All the quarterly winners also received trophies, and copies of the 25th annual anthology were handed out after the ceremony.