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According to Director of the Writers and Illustrators Contests Joni Labaqui, the funds to underwrite the contest — including the cash prizes, the gala awards ceremony and the weeklong pre-awards festivities — come from the Hubbard estate.

The Hubbard estate is separate from the Church of Scientology and earns royalties from sales of Hubbard's books, including his fiction.

Labaqui also reports that staff of Author Services Inc. is entirely made up of Scientologists.