Writers of the Future contestants have filled American bookshelves with nearly a thousand trendsetting novels and 3,500 short stories. Winners of the illustrators contest have similarly graced well over a thousand publications with imaginative images and placed upwards of a million prints in the public domain. Contest winners have further collected well over fifty premier awards from elsewhere across the field, including numerous Hugos and Nebulas—not to mention National Book Awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.