Pierce City author Atwater wins International Writing Contest

Pierce City author Seth Atwater, Jr. is a winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest earning him a trip to Hollywood for a week-long master-class workshop, an awards event and his winning story will be published in the international bestselling anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 41.
Atwater is a 24-year-old homebody who loves books---both writing and reading them. He has always had a passion for good stories and the real human beings they help us to understand and empathize with, but he didn’t settle on writing as a career until he attended his first “Life, the Universe, and Everything” speculative fiction symposium in Utah in 2017. The inclusion of his short story, “A World of Repetitions,” in this anthology is a big step toward achieving that dream, and he is extremely grateful for the opportunity that the “Writers of the Future” team have given him.
Atwater currently lives with his parents and five of his seven younger siblings on a family farm. He works as a tech specialist for his dad, who is a marriage and family therapist who runs his own life coaching business.
Almost all of Atwater’s stories start with a “what if?” The stories themselves then take the form of an answer to whatever interesting question was on his mind, and usually relate to both the vastness and intimacy of human experience. In the case of “A World of Repetitions,” the question was, “What if the world was stuck in a time loop, but everyone kept their memories, not just the main character?”
In the 40 years of the Writers of the Future Contest, there have been 559 winners and published finalists. The past winners of the Writing Contest have published 2,000 novels and nearly 6,300 short stories. They have produced 36 New York Times bestsellers, and their works have sold over 60 million copies.