New Jersey Stage 2015: Issue 7 | Page 51

Jersey Illustrator Wins Grand Prize In International Competition by Gary Wien In April, Michelle Lockamy was invited to the 31st annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement awards in Los Angeles. At the time, the illustrator from Brown Mills, New Jersey knew she was one of the 12 winning illustrators out of several thousand to enter the international competition. What NewJerseyStage.com she didn’t know was that she would also be named the winner of the Grand Prize award which meant her illustration would be published in the bestselling Science Fiction anthology series L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 31 along with a cash prize of $5,000. 2015 - ISSUE 7 51