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(NAPSI)—Decades of helping writers and artists have resulted in the latest edition of L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future by the winners of the 40th annual Writers of the Future and the 35th ...

Winners of a new Baltimore writing contest will help Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists learn what happens in the brain when people read stories. The inaugural fMRI Writing Prize, created by a ...

The National Space Society (NSS) and Hadley Rille Books announce the RETURN TO LUNA Short Story Contest. SCENARIO: You’re returning from a hike in the Moon’s Apennine Mountains, following the ancient ...

Legendary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the award-winning “Mars Trilogy,” will select the winners of a national flash-science fiction contest. Three winning stories will be ...

What steps do you take to figure out how the human brain processes memory? You hold a fiction writing contest, record people's brains while listening to the winners, and crunch your data, of course.