Listed below are the Second Rounders of the 2024 Launch Pad Feature Competition. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Top 100 announcement on November 22nd 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 Second Rounders:
| 133 | Aladen Gulmohamad |
| 1859 | Joe Graber |
| A Bad Day For Good Deeds | D. E. Asher |
| A Chick In The Cockpit | Ray Keller, Erika Armstrong |
| A Dance In The Devil’s Boots | Jacqueline Cordova |
| A Girl Named Go | Mary Cardenas |
| A Halloween Happening | Kyle Knopf |
| A Promise Is A Promise | Martin Leyva Millan |
| A Seeping Wound | Darryl Wimberley |
| Abductor | Alex McAulay |
| Across Enemy Lines | Julia Bergeron |
| Addie & Esther | Annie Wood |
| After You | Sean Wathen |
| All Bets Are Off | Rich Durazzo, Jr. |
| AMBERGRIS | Jacobo Fe Gismera |
| Ambrosia | Laura Waters Hinson |
| American Ripper | Logan Shaw |
| An Incubus to Plague Mankind | Abdullah Alhendyani |
| An Institution | Daniel Takacs |
| An Ode to Grief | Abdullah Alhendyani |
| An Orphan’s Playlist | Stephen Barber |
| Anew | Catherine Gubernick |
| Angel | Thomas Thonson |
| APACHE | Adam Seidel |
| Arctic Lodge | Joseph Southworth |
| Ashes | Maaman Rezaee |
| Assimilated | Christopher Guerrero |
| Avenue of Regrets | Rogelio Pineiro |
| Bad Luck vs. Karma | Aaron Davis |
| Balsero | Arturo Corces |
| Band on the Run | Mickey Petrusaitis |
| BARILOCHE | Claudia Cifuentes |
| Bartender Dearest | Elena Nardini |
| Beauty | Bruna Pias |
| Bedford | Joseph Fattal |
| Bison Man | Michael Rhodes |
| Black Girl Magic | Sasha Kai |
| Blameless | Alex McAulay |
| Blind Spot | Graham Parke |
| BLINDERS | Edward Klau |
| Bliss | Zef Husain |
| Bolt From the Blue | Justin Coupe |
| Boom the Conqueror | Ana R. Dominick |
| Can’t We Be Friends? | Victoria Bullock |
| CELESTE | George Brighton |
| Cellophane Shells | Alana Gerdes |
| Checkout | Hunter Davis, Bryan Bock |
| CHOKEPOINT | Tamra Teig |
| Christmas in Cryonis | Molly Bandt, Celia Ramsey |
| Chrome Plated | Sarah Ward |
| Chrysalis | Alex McAulay |
| Clairstupid | Vicky Cassis |
| Clam Shack Blues | Michael Yocum |
| Coastal Watch | Danielle Weinberg |
| CONFLUENCE | Brad Kinney |
| Contained | Jennifer Wilton |
| COTTONMOUTH | Danny Salemme |
| CRAB | Abi Perpall |
| Dad Band | Greg Harvey |
| Dancing on a Tightrope | Jesse Kalfel |
| Darkness Gives Way | Rebecca Arroyo |
| DESCENDENT | Elizabeth Urwin |
| Detroit Run | Odin Ozdil |
| Devil’s Fork | Jason Hall |
| Día de las Carpas | Marina Kato |
| Disposable | Michael Bret Hood |
| Do Not Disturb | Ben Miller |
| ÉCHAPPÉ | Allison Mattox |
| Echo | Daniel Elkayam |
| El Nuevo Yo | Nicholas Ybarra |
| Elephant Path | Robert Woolridge |
| Escaping Paradise | Michael Roud |
| Falastini | Nader Salem |
| Falling From The Sky | Robert Rhyne |
| False Doors | Carolyn Johnson |
| Fireflies | Amanda Keener |
| Five Tigers | Shiv B |
| Follower | Nathan Floody |
| Fragile Sky | Percival Pasquin Jr |
| Gal Baby | Tommy Roswell |
| Generations | Sune Sorensen |
| Godot | Oren Shai, David N Meyer |
| Gorby And Ronnie Do Reyljavik | Patrick Connelly |
| Gotta Go | Jennifer Zechmeister |
| Green House | Philip & Nadia Laaveg |
| Greetings From Galeton | William Sullivan, Jarret Kerr |
| Gusto! | Ally Gilfeather |
| Guy Who Just Bought a Boat | Patrick Tierney |
| Hate Actually | Jacob Lazarow, Greta Guthrie |
| Holodomor | Leo Moroz |
| Holy Wars | Matthew England |
| HOMEWARD | Ben Mehlman |
| Hung Over | Michail Eggelhoefer |
| I Think Dave is a Robot | Kevin Duncan |
| I’ll Never Find Another You. | Michael Elliott |
| I’m Not Leaving | Jonathan Coleman |
| Idiopathy | Jenny Bess |
| Immigré | Maryam Myika Day |
| In The Hearts Of The Chicken Men | Rene Andre |
| Izetta | Tamara Steren |
| JOAN | Chloe Kendel |
| Jubilee | Eric Reeve, Henry Romel Guy |
| K-Town Blues | Kyung-Ja Lee |
| Killer Cosplay | Todd Wilber |
| Kiwi | Eric Rich |
| Lady G | Robert Axelrod |
| Lake Windigo | David Boito |
| Lead Us Into Temptation | Dave Mango |
| Legacy Of Shadows | B. Parker Lindner |
| Lilac Wants Top Surgery | Samson Actias |
| Look At This Photograph | Avery Regen |
| Lord Said So | Max Rissman |
| Lost Girls | Kate Imy |
| Magic Hour | Chris McKee |
| Marriage Material | Adam Rotstein, Jackson Tobin |
| Master | Devon Kerr |
| Mauritius | Philippe Benoit |
| Memories on Dalmaji Road | Clara Park |
| Mermania! | Michael Brennan |
| Minus One | Michelle Blair Wilker |
| miri & gav | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| Misinterpret | Koji Masutani |
| Moi | Richard Nguyen |
| Monstrous Omnibus | Peter Vicaire |
| Move-In Date | Julian Berger |
| Murder Is So High School | Lilliana Winkworth |
| Murder Most Virtual | Ted Chastain |
| My Best (Ex) Boyfriends | Darius Wadia |
| My Brother’s Keeper | Dominic Munafo |
| My Dad Has No Friends | Jake Hulse |
| Night Swimming | Gavin Cole |
| No Ghosts Tonight | Adele Smaill |
| No Matter What | James Love |
| Nothing But Recoil | Gillian Allou |
| Ostrich Boy | Ricardo Bonisoli, Holly Pavlik |
| Over the Hill | Laura Kemp |
| Oversights | Cooper Pagano |
| Pain Killer | Jeff Perreca |
| Pastor Bob is Not a Good Guy | Paul Mowry |
| Patchwork | Amanda Keener |
| Pater | Oliver Silver |
| Pinky Swear | Matthew Manson |
| Playing The Changes | George Edward Collins |
| Pro Life | Leah Simmons |
| Racer Unknown | C.J. LongHammer |
| Rage & Ruin | Nick Loritsch |
| REACTIONS | Andrea Dixon |
| Red Blooded | Michael Sutter |
| Revengia | Gianfranco Cuoco |
| Ripple | Andrew Muller |
| Rising Son | Junot Lee |
| RIVETERS | Max Rissman |
| Rock Bottom | Nelson Downend |
| Rogue Fury | Edward Pereira |
| ROOT | Erin McNamara |
| Ruby Ridge | Lawrence Kane |
| Ryder’s Escape | Rich Duisenberg |
| Safe Conduct | Liz Janzen |
| Sand Creek | Chris Cogley |
| Santa Fe | Brandon Shypkowski |
| School (of Thought) | T.D. Critton |
| Searching Yellow Suns | Christopher Smith |
| Second Stances | Laura Harbin |
| Secret Weapon | Gretchen Somerfeld |
| Self-Inflicted | Edward Klau |
| Senior Project | Zebidiah Millett |
| Shadow Dancer | Nikki Groton |
| Six Dates with My Mom | Chris Zalis |
| Sleeping with Strangers | Genie Leslie |
| Song of Kosovo | Christopher Gudgeon |
| SOUTHBOUND | Ben Klopfenstein |
| Spiral | Hannah Garfield |
| STONEGATE | Maryann Beckman |
| Stormheart | Meshal Alsaleem |
| Sturgeon General | Molly Bandt, Celia Ramsey |
| Supermassive | Steve Utaski |
| Synesthesia | Michael Capristo |
| Taint | Shannon Ronalds |
| Tears Of The Tiger | Roy Tan |
| Tell Me More Tomorrow | David Sajadi |
| Thanks, But No Thanks | Zebidiah Millett, Jason Schneider |
| The Applicants | Justin Ballheim |
| The Astrologer | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| The Battle of Cahuenga Pass | Blaine Tyler |
| The Cricket | Gabe Berry |
| The Crude | Zach Green |
| The Diamond Sutra | Paul Yung |
| The Dirty Blonde | Sven Anarki |
| The Enemy Within | Debbi Mack |
| The Everything Game | Ryan Gielen |
| The Father, the Son & the Unholy Script | Edward Thomas |
| The Ghost of Di An [Zee-Ahn] | Taylor Hunt |
| The Godmothers | João Dall’Stella |
| The Great Tollbooth Caper | Benjamin Kramer |
| The Handoff | Ariel Palin |
| The High Road | Martin Thuernau |
| The Immovable Sword | Jason Hinton |
| The Junkie | Felicia Manning |
| The Language Of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
| The Legend Of Gishee Island | Andy Kaknevicius |
| The Longest Night | Rebecca Scott |
| The Marigold Experiment | Felix Nunez |
| The Metamorphosis | Harvey John |
| The Moonset Mistake | Michael Sarrow |
| The Ogopogo | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The Operative | David Schroeder |
| The Pearl of the Antilles | Chuco Donate |
| The Penrose Hallway | Matt MacDonald |
| The Place Between | Marta Roncada |
| The Pluto Chamber | Grover Greene |
| The Pulpit | Tosin Morohunfola |
| The Rabbi | Justin Horowitz |
| The Second Greatest Story Ever Told! | Alexander Kipp |
| The Silent Room | David Schlow |
| The Slide | Dennis Luu |
| The Starlight City Run | Emmett Walsh |
| The Zookeeper | Martin Leyva Millan |
| Thespis and the Key of the King | Galen Steffen |
| Thin Blood | Luca Stein |
| This is Not a Coming of Age | Carter Stenberg, Linden Kohut |
| Thread Of Ariadne | Sophia Dienstag |
| Thy Soul’sImmensity or The Sweet Dreams of Dying Dogs | Fargo Kantrowitz |
| Tight-Knit | Samantha Duncan |
| Time Tourists | Josh Miller |
| Titan | Jay Adams |
| Toilet Sharks | Bruce Griffiths |
| Tomorrow’s Garden | Julia Beney |
| Traditional | Min Tran |
| TRAPPED | Farrin Rosenthal |
| Tree Line | Kevin Fentress |
| Troll | Steven Ackley |
| Tunnels | HF Crum |
| Under The Moon | Ari Silver |
| Undocumented Minors | Weiyang Liu |
| Usulután | Jason Romero |
| Vengeance of Saints | Phillip Roquemore |
| Virgin’s Island | Ben Stebor, Nived Ravikumar |
| WALELA | Logan Shaw |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| We Live Here | Stephen Laughton |
| Well of Deceit | Michael Richards |
| WENDY | Nilanjana Bose, Jakub Ciupinski |
| Wendybot | Kasi Brown, Brandon Walter |
| What Comes Through | Kyle C. Mumford, Rachael Emrich |
| White Hot Latina | Stephanie Weber |
| White-Tail | Bannon Brody |
| Winners | Jacob Rice |
| Wrightsborough | Mahonri Stewart |
| XOVA7 | Quanah Hicks |
| You Don’t Have to Die in the End | Anita Daher |
