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Twenty-five writers and artists from around the globe were honored Sunday night, April 14, at the 29th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards at the prestigious Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The two grand prize honors were captured by Tina Gower of Chino, CA who was awarded the The Golden Pen Award and a $5,000 cash prize and Aldo Katayanagi of Chicago, IL who was awarded the The Golden Brush Award and a $5,000 cash prize. The 12 Writer winners included: Alisa Alering (of Bloomington, IN) Eric Cline (of Bowie, MD) Tina Gower (writer's pen name; Tina Smith, real name) (of Chino, CA) Marilyn Guttridge (of Estacada, OR) (She is the youngest writer winner in the history of the writer's contest. She is currently 17-years-old.) Kodiak Julian (writer's pen name; Leah Hieber, real name) (of Yakima, WA) Marina J. Lostetter (of Fayetteville, AZ) Shannon Peavey (of Kirkland, WA) Christopher Reynaga (of Moss Beach, CA) Stephen Sottong (of Eureka, CA) Andrea Stewart (of West Sacramento, CA) Brian Trent (of Prospect, CT) Alex Wilson (of Carrboro, N.C.) In addition, writer Chrome Oxide (of Mission Hills, CA) was honored as a published finalist. The 12 Illustrator winners included: Jackie Albano (of Miramar, FL) Sida Chen (of Syosset, NY; born in rural China) Lucas Durham (of Darien, IL) James J. Eads (of Garden Grove, CA) Tiffany England (of Los Angeles, CA) Jon Eno (of Bluff Dale, TX) Aldo Katayanagi (of Chicago, IL) Joshua Meehan (of Tucson, AZ) Luis Menacho (of Jackson Heights, NY) Daniel Reneau (of Denver, CO) Karsen Slater (of Glendora, CA) Olivia Xu (of Brooklyn, NY and Nanjing, China) The annual event celebrated the winners in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests before a packed hall of over 1,100 guests and thousands more who were logged on to watch the event as it streamed live. A unique characteristic of the Hubbard Achievement Awards event is its use of music and dance to both complement and celebrate writing and art. The evening's event opened with a beautiful original song dedicated to writers and artists entitled "Endless Possibilities," performed by Kimberley Locke, of American Idol fame, with choreography as performed by the troupe DanceMakers. The night's keynote speaker was Mr. Brett Kennedy, Supervisor of the Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Kennedy brought an inflatable replica from NASA of the Curiosity Rover currently on the planet Mars along with an 8-wheeled "Mobility Test Rover" which were situated on a Mars landscape created for the evening's after event. It was also the Mini Curiosity Rover that presented the Grand Prize envelope on stage for the Writer of the Future for Tina Gower. The other evening guest speaker was Jut Wynne, PhD, a conservation biologist who has bushwhacked through the jungles of Belize, rappelled into the deepest volcanic pit in Hawaii, endured the world's driest desert in northern Chile, searched for caves with cutting edge instruments aboard NASA aircraft, and traveled to the most remote inhabited place on earth, Easter Island. Celebrity presenters included: Nancy Cartwright (Emmy Award® Winner, The Voice of Bart Simpson on "The Simpsons" and Charles "Chuckie" Finster, Jr. on "Rugrats") Aramis Knight (Bean in the Science Fiction movie, "Ender's Game," "The Dark Knight Rises," "Crossing Over") Marisol Nichols ("Vegas Vacation," "Scream 2," "GCB," "The Gates," "24") Kylin Rhambo (Dink Meeker in the Science Fiction movie, "Ender's Game," "The First Family") The event celebrated the annual winners in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests, where twelve writer and twelve illustrator winners, and one writer finalist—who made it further than some several thousand others who entered the international competition—saw their story and artwork published in the bestselling Science Fiction anthology series -- L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future ...