Winners of the 33rd annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Achievement Awards (Source: Galaxy Press)

Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, Tim Powers, and Brandon Sanderson will be in attendance at the 34th annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Achievement Awards on Sunday, April 8 at The MacArthur in Los Angeles.

Larry Elmore, Illustrators of the Future judge, Nancy Kress, Writers of the Future Judge, and Michelle Lockamy at 31st annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards (source: Moore College of Art & Design)

Organizers of the 34th annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Achievement Awards announced that the gala event will be held at The MacArthur on Sunday, April 8, with doors opening at 5:30 PM and event starting promptly at 6:30 PM.

The giants of speculative fiction will be on hand to recognize and award the best new Science Fiction and Fantasy writers and artists of 2017.

Those attending will include Writers of the Future contest judges Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, David Farland, Eric Flint, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nancy Kress, Rebecca Moesta, Larry Niven, Jody Lynn Nye, Tim Powers, Mike Resnick, Brandon Sanderson and Robert J. Sawyer. And Illustrators of the Future contest judges will include Echo and Lazarus Chernik, Larry Elmore, Laura Freas Beraha, Val Lakey Lindahn and Sergey Poyarkov.