The Authors Quill author Seth Atwater, Jr. Second hour Joel Scoberg

HOLLYWOOD - Pierce City, Missouri author Seth Atwater, Jr. is a winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest and was honored along with eleven other writers and eleven artists at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, California on April 10th. His story, "The World of Repetitions," is published along with the other writers' and illustrators' stories and art in the international bestselling anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 41 which was officially released on April 22nd 2025.

Seth Atwater Jr is a twenty-four 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.

Seth currently lives with his parents and five of his seven younger siblings on a family farm in the midwestern United States. He works as a tech specialist for his dad, who is a marriage and family therapist who runs his own life coaching business. Seth's family are all very talented artists and writers, and it is their support in the form of love, encouragement, and critical feedback that has made it possible for him to come this far as a writer.

Almost all of Seth'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?"