Listed below are the Top 100 for 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 50 announcement on January 31st here and on Twitter! 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:
| 133 | Aladen Gulmohamad |
| A Bad Day For Good Deeds | D. E. Asher |
| A Dance In The Devil’s Boots | Jacqueline Cordova |
| A Girl Named Go | Mary Cardenas |
| A Halloween Happening | Kyle Knopf |
| Across Enemy Lines | Julia Bergeron |
| After You | Sean Wathen |
| AMBERGRIS | Jacobo Fe Gismera |
| An Institution | Daniel Takacs |
| An Ode to Grief | Abdullah Alhendyani |
| Anew | Catherine Gubernick |
| Assimilated | Christopher Guerrero |
| Avenue of Regrets | Rogelio Pineiro |
| Band on the Run | Mickey Petrusaitis |
| Bartender Dearest | Elena Nardini |
| Bedford | Joseph Fattal |
| Black Girl Magic | Sasha Kai |
| Blameless | Alex McAulay |
| Boom the Conqueror | Ana R. Dominick |
| Checkout | Hunter Davis, Bryan Bock |
| CHOKEPOINT | Tamra Teig |
| Christmas in Cryonis | Molly Bandt, Celia Ramsey |
| Chrome Plated | Sarah Ward |
| Clairstupid | Vicky Cassis |
| CONFLUENCE | Brad Kinney |
| Contained | Jennifer Wilton |
| COTTONMOUTH | Danny Salemme |
| Darkness Gives Way | Rebecca Arroyo |
| DESCENDENT | Elizabeth Urwin |
| ÉCHAPPÉ | Allison Mattox |
| El Nuevo Yo | Nicholas Ybarra |
| Falastini | Nader Salem |
| Gal Baby | Tommy Roswell |
| Gotta Go | Jennifer Zechmeister |
| Green House | Philip & Nadia Laaveg |
| Gusto! | Ally Gilfeather |
| Guy Who Just Bought a Boat | Patrick Tierney |
| Hate Actually | Jacob Lazarow, Greta Guthrie |
| I’ll Never Find Another You. | Michael Elliott |
| I’m Not Leaving | Jonathan Coleman |
| Idiopathy | Jenny Bess |
| Lady G | Robert Axelrod |
| Look At This Photograph | Avery Regen |
| Mauritius | Philippe Benoit |
| Memories on Dalmaji Road | Clara Park |
| Mermania! | Michael Brennan |
| Misinterpret | Koji Masutani |
| Moi | Richard Nguyen |
| Murder Is So High School | Lilliana Winkworth |
| Murder Most Virtual | Ted Chastain |
| MY BEST (EX) BOYFRIENDS | Darius Wadia |
| My Brother’s Keeper | Dominic Munafo |
| No Ghosts Tonight | Adele Smaill |
| No Matter What | James Love |
| Nothing But Recoil | Gillian Allou |
| Over the Hill | Laura Kemp |
| Pain Killer | Jeff Perreca |
| Pro Life | Leah Simmons |
| Rising Son | Junot Lee |
| Rogue Fury | Edward Pereira |
| ROOT | Erin McNamara |
| Ruby Ridge | Lawrence Kane |
| Santa Fe | Brandon Shypkowski |
| Searching Yellow Suns | Christopher Smith |
| Secret Weapon | Gretchen Somerfeld |
| Sleeping with Strangers | Genie Leslie |
| SOUTHBOUND | Ben Klopfenstein |
| Spiral | Hannah Garfield |
| STONEGATE | Maryann Beckman |
| Sturgeon General | Molly Bandt, Celia Ramsey |
| Tears Of The Tiger | Roy Tan |
| Tell Me More Tomorrow | David Sajadi |
| The Cricket | Gabe Berry |
| The Enemy Within | Debbi Mack |
| The Everything Game | Ryan Gielen |
| The Godmothers | João Dall’Stella |
| The Great Tollbooth Caper | Benjamin Kramer |
| The Immovable Sword | Jason Hinton |
| The Language Of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
| The Legend Of Gishee Island | Andy Kaknevicius |
| The Marigold Experiment | Felix Nunez |
| The Metamorphosis | Harvey John |
| The Moonset Mistake | Michael Sarrow |
| The Ogopogo | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The Pearl of the Antilles | Chuco Alfredo Donate |
| The Place Between | Marta Roncada |
| The Pulpit | Tosin Morohunfola |
| The Zookeeper | Martin Leyva Millan |
| This is Not a Coming of Age | Carter Stenberg, Linden Kohut |
| Tight-Knit | Samantha Duncan |
| Titan | Jay Adams |
| Troll | Steven Ackley |
| Tunnels | HF Crum |
| Undocumented Minors | Weiyang Liu |
| WALELA | Logan Shaw |
| WENDY | Nilanjana Bose, Jakub Ciupinski |
| Wendybot | Kasi Brown, Brandon Walter |
| What Comes Through | Kyle C. Mumford, Rachael Emrich |
| WHITE-TAIL | Bannon Brody |
| XOVA7 | Quanah Hicks |
