Listed below are the Top 100 manuscripts of the 2022 Launch Pad Prose Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from an amazing pool of candidates. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Top 50 announcement on February 11th here and on Twitter within the next few weeks! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Top 100:
| A Girl Called Redemption | Sophie Neville |
| A Glimpse at the Eclipse | Susan Hahn |
| A Most Peculiar Stakeout | Josh Taylor |
| After the Spirits Come | Beth Ford |
| ANNA | Amanda ReCupido |
| Art of the Kill | Joe Cooke |
| Be Careful What You Wish For series | Cara Highsmith |
| Big Fat F@!K Up | Lawrence Allan Pontius |
| Black Snowman | Conrad Walters |
| BUZZWORTHY | Nicole & Mike Comforto |
| Clouds Clearing | Dave Clair |
| CrossTown | Loren Cooper |
| Darkness Shines | Kirsten Boswell |
| Don’t Shoot The Piano Player | Kevin Engelking |
| Duck Roast on the 38th Parallel | Alicia Yang |
| Emma & The Gobbling Bandits | Teigan Isobel |
| Erased | catherine Boyd |
| Far Rockaway | Kim Kolarich |
| Flood Money | Adam McCulloch |
| Footprints in Water – a short story | Twist Phelan |
| Gary | Jeremiah Murphy |
| Ghost Dick | MH Handleman |
| Gone To Ground | Morgan Hatch |
| Heartbeat | Samuel Finn |
| Hell Slowly Creeps | Raquel Levitt |
| Home Front | C. D. ‘Pete’ Peterson |
| How Bad Will Clea Get? | Carol Lazare |
| How to Steal a Hominid | James Cusick |
| I Wish Kevin Was A Bag Of Sand | Bobby Miller |
| Immortal Alchemy | Pamela Danforth Yaco |
| Inside Out | Lisa Renee Jones |
| Just a Girl in the Whirl | Annie Wood |
| Landlocked Sushi in the Dead Camel Mountains | harris kauffman |
| Larceny In My Soul – Life of a Playboy Bunny | Jan Marlyn Reesman |
| Life After Death | Rick Miners |
| Marble Birds | Larry Hendricks |
| Meet Jack | Catherine Keane |
| Miss Fortune | Juan Villegas |
| Miss Minnie’s Boarding House | Bonnie Ilyse Tunick |
| Nepali for ‘Duct Tape’ | Stephanie Bousley |
| Night Shift | Mike Waterston |
| NothingGold.Exe | Brian del Rio |
| Number 14 | Allen Blackwell |
| Of Pumpers and Bathers | Tanya Klein |
| Open Sorcery | Rob Sheely |
| Patriot Day | Dana Dillon |
| PIG | Jessica Wood |
| Project Wild | Michael Schwartz |
| Red Hot | Joshua Scicluna |
| Rescue Bot | Thomas Thonson |
| RISE – Valley of the Dolls | M.D. Waters |
| San Camilio | Katie Antonsson |
| Scurry Back | Aaron Brock Dehn |
| Seoul Food | Sarai Koo |
| SHOES | Andrew Phillips |
| Shut-Eye | Kevin O’Hare |
| Sisters | Azenath Adede |
| Six Sage Society | Allison Hong Merrill |
| Some of My Best Patients Were Animals | K.C. Nayfield |
| Stela | Robert C. Frink |
| Talking Man | John Broadhead |
| Terraforming | Robert OMalley |
| The Cop Killer of Tade County | Mosby Barley |
| The First After | Jasmeen Siddiqui |
| The Freek Of Leesville | David Vienna |
| The Giant of Illinois | Adam Sleper |
| The Hidden Country | Stuart Hardy |
| The House on Desco Drive | Kay Smith-Blum |
| The Last Historian | Tanya Klein |
| The Lies My Immigrant Parents Told Me | Carolina Caro |
| The Lies of Love | Kelly Pierce |
| The Mad Queen and Lavender Farm | Michael Kramer |
| The Man Who Got Out of Japan | Sophie Neville |
| The Moon Is Broken | Paula Conner |
| THE OTHER ONE | Chrysler Szarlan |
| The Paris Connection | Lorraine Brown |
| The Rocket Scientist | Arthur Geis |
| The Royal Coroner | Matthew Morde |
| The Summer Girl | Katherine Hill Brown |
| The Swamp Rex | Cody Pearce |
| The Talkers are Talking – Book 1 | Janna Grace |
| The Walk | Alianna Jaqua |
| The Watcher | Noah Pohl |
| The Wrongdoers | Becca Mann |
| These Woods | Allison Mick |
| They Used to Call Me Chaplin | Graham Kirkham |
| Thoughtless Atoms (working title) | Jesse Kendall |
| TUESDAY AFTERNOON/WEDNESDAY MORNING | Deborah Riley |
| Tuscan Shadows | A.J. Hamer |
| Unacceptable Risk: A Memoir of Marriage and Tainted Blood | Kathy MacKay |
| Uncontrolled Detonations | Mary-Denise Tabar |
| Undertow | Noah Pohl |
| Vancouver Skies | Marie Arsenault |
| Viewer Discretion Is Advised | Benjamin Gleisser |
| We Arrive Uninvited | Jen Knox |
| We Rest In The Dark | Joshua Rodgers |
| When I Grow Up I Want To Be a No One | Celia Rettenmaier |
| Wrestling Demons | Thomas Thonson |
| ZACK CRESSID IS INVISIBLE! | David Lesser |
| Zara | Melvin Sterne |
