Listed below are the Top 50 manuscripts of the 2022 Launch Pad Prose Competition. These exceptional manuscripts were selected from an impressive group of projects. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far!
Stay tuned for the Top 10 announcement on February 25th 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 50:
| Art of the Kill | Joe Cooke |
| Big Fat F@!K Up | Lawrence Allan Pontius |
| Black Snowman | Conrad Walters |
| Buzzworthy | Nicole & Mike Comforto |
| Darkness Shines | Kirsty Boss |
| Duck Roast on the 38th Parallel | Alicia Yang |
| Erased | Catherine Boyd |
| Flood Money | Adam McCulloch |
| Footprints in Water – a short story | Twist Phelan |
| Gary | Jeremiah Murphy |
| Hell Slowly Creeps | Raquel Levitt |
| How to Steal a Hominid | James Cusick |
| I Wish Kevin Was A Bag Of Sand | Bobby Miller |
| 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 |
| Meet Jack | Catherine Keane |
| Night Shift | Mike Waterston |
| NothingGold.Exe | Brian del Rio |
| Number 14 | Allen Blackwell |
| Of Pumpers and Bathers | Tanya Klein |
| Open Sorcery | Rob Sheely |
| PIG | Jessica Wood |
| Rescue Bot | Thomas Thonson |
| RISE – Valley of the Dolls | M.D. Waters |
| San Camilio | Katie Antonsson |
| Seoul Food | Sarai Koo |
| Shut-Eye | Kevin O’Hare |
| Terraforming | Robert OMalley |
| The Cop Killer of Tade County | Mosby Barley |
| The First After | Jasmeen Siddiqui |
| The Freek Of Leesville | David Vienna |
| The Hidden Country | Stuart Hardy |
| The House on Desco Drive | Kay Smith-Blum |
| The Man Who Got Out of Japan | Sophie Neville |
| The Other One | Chrysler Szarlan |
| The Paris Connection | Lorraine Brown |
| The Rocket Scientist | Arthur Geis |
| The Swamp Rex | Cody Pearce |
| The Walk | Alianna Jaqua |
| The Wrongdoers | Becca Mann |
| They Used to Call Me Chaplain | Graham Kirkham |
| Tuscan Shadows | A.J. Hamer |
| Unacceptable Risk: A Memoir of Marriage and Tainted Blood | Kathy MacKay |
| Undertow | Noah Pohl |
| Vancouver Skies | Marie Arsenault |
| 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 |
| Zack Cressid Is Invisible! | David Lesser |
