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Announcing the Top 100 Finalists of the 2021 Launch Pad Pilot Competition!

By August 13, 2021October 27th, 2023No Comments

Congratulations to the Top 100 Finalists from this year’s competition! Our Top 50 list will be announced on September 3rd.

Title Writer(s)
2  6  8 Marcus Ashley
45 Stories Eric Berg
A Spoonful Of Sugar Josh Berman and Janelle Goforth
After School Aaron Barrocas
Alien of Extraordinary Ability Rishan Dhamija, Edwin Joseph and Sola Fadiran
Altered Evyn Williams
Apollo 19 Ray Gettman Bush
Big Shoulders Tate Hamilton
Blackappella Danny Rogers
Blood Valley Rebecca Leib
Bloodroots Amber Johnson
Boystown G.M. Stuart
Brock Wilbur: Adventure Pig Lukas Ridge
Butterfly Max Hersh
Chorus Boy Tommar Wilson
Clean Slate Indigo Hinton
Codeswitch Sasha Kai Parker
Con(temporary) Artist Carol Brown
Desi Family HUSE MADHAVJI
Dex and Lilla: Galactic Explorers Rose Bueno
Dungeon Crawlers Zach Wilson
Entre Nos Jesenia Ruiz
Exodus Shyam Popat
Fermentation Christine Garver
First Joe Haar
Firt Peter Sullivan
Flower Girls Eleanor Cho
For One Night Only Jordan Ramp
Forgive and Forget Eugene  Garcia-Cross
Fuckboi Warner Wood
GeriOsity Barbara Ward Thall
Hatch Sandy Nicholson
Hood Pab Sungenis
How to Build a Cult Zoe Vitale
Joe Fred Salmon
Kintsugi Lisa Sanaye Dring
Kosher Nostra Gracie Marcellus
Lady Death Lindsay Grossman
Leatherette Michael KY Yip
Little Helpers Jacob S. Wydra
Lost Souls Reagan Kai
Malware Michael Deigh
Maryam P.I. Zack Siddiqui
Masamba Xavier Griffin
Mother Mary Emily-Anne Mikos
Mystic Cody Ashford and Eric Vue
Nannies of Belle Meade Jessica Walter
New Chapter Ryan Manns and Jocelyn Manns
No Country Sean Barth
No One Wants Us Yagmur Tok
No Way Out Jason Francisco
Off the Rack Pilar Gibson
Over The Hill Ashley Hiller
Palmer Island Bianca J. Ursillo
Pastor Kamal Navid Mehrjou
Pole Moles David Morris
Private Di Alex May
Providence Amanda Mercedes
Pulp Paper Nightmares Ashley McCann
Rebranded Caro Ribeiro
RMS Windel Sierra Sands
Safe Words Molly Brady
Sage Canyon Justine Ferrara
Seven Seas Jordan Goodman
Shadowlink Alana Grace
Sick Bitch Julianne Fox
Single A.F. Tosin Morohunfola
Sojourning Lamar Legend
Sorta Rican Jorge Thomson
Soul Samurai Dennis James Clarke
Spitfire Bridget Visser
Storme John Lowe
The Cases of Mystery Lane Joel Dovev and Margaux Froley
The Control Matt Schultz
The Fix Heath  Woodlief
The Half-Life of Azim & Julie Aleem Hossain
The Ink-Shifter Lisa Tuholski
The Man in the Brown Suit Elizabeth Ditty
The Replacement Nick Job
The Secret Life of Samira Sen Minoti Vaishnav
The Several Ghosts of Fantabulous Land Thomas Bell
The Squire DaManuel Richardson
The Taking of Lincoln Hospital Karina Hurtado
There Are No Black People In Space Anthony Thompson
Thick Skin Robert Axelrod
Tino 99 Byron Qiao
Trail Runs Cold Steve Robillard
Trashed Rachel Van Nes
Triple Net Louisa Kendrick Burton
True North Hope Tarr and Raj Moorjani
Undertaken Jamie Severson
Us Against The World(s) Ross Buran
Voice Kayla Rundquist
Walk and Roll Lesley Hennen
What’s Granddad Ivy Johnson
Whisky Charlie Two Harriet O’Neill
Who is Monica Strange? Andrea Shawcross
Wild Forensics Bill Watson and Emma Hamilton
Wingwoman Amber Brown
Yesterday Never Ends Patrick Chen

Make sure to check back for further announcements! Full details about the competition can be found here.

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 100, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

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