Omega Sci-Fi Project Culmination: Celebrity Readings & Honors

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Omega Sci-Fi Project is proud to celebrate our student finalists for our creative writing competitions, The Tomorrow Prize and The Green Feather Award. Since its 2014 inception, the Omega Sci-Fi Project has empowered thousands of emerging young writers through hands-on workshops to express themselves and explore universal quandaries through the art of science fiction storytelling. At our culmination this May 16, 2026, six students’ visions of the future will be brought to life, performed aloud by celebrity actors.

The only program in California offering science fiction writing instruction and recognition to high school-aged students, the Omega Sci-Fi Project introduces young minds to ongoing conversations about existential dilemmas facing humanity by employing the genre’s unique power to reimagine our collective future. We celebrate the influence of writers like Octavia Butler, a Pasadena native who used her science fiction narratives to criticize the unjust structures she saw reflected in the world around her. Omega Sci-Fi Project Director Rosalind Helfand says, “The Omega Sci-Fi Project inspires diverse high school students from every corner of Los Angeles County to explore the issues they care about through science fiction writing and imagine new pathways.”

The winners of The Tomorrow Prize and The Green Feather Award will be celebrated at the May culmination, alongside other finalists and honorable mentions, and awarded with cash prizes and publication of their stories in LA Parent Magazine or the Nature Nexus Newsletter, respectively. “The young writers are offered a wonderful chance at recognition for their creative work through the awards process. Often, students don't even realize that creative writing is a meaningful way for them to explore a world they struggle to understand. That is, until they get to try it!” says Bodin Adler, a participating teacher from Hollywood High School.

We invite you to join us at our momentous Culminating Event on May 16, 2026, from 1-3 PM at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena to celebrate the power of science fiction storytelling and the many talented voices of young writers across Los Angeles.

The Omega Sci-Fi Project is a program under the arts and education nonprofit, Light Bringer Project. The program was founded by Sci-Fest LA in 2014. Sponsors also include L.A. Parent Magazine, Nature Nexus Institute and Vroman’s Bookstore.

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