Listed below are the Second Rounders of the 6th Annual Launch Pad Prose Competition. Congratulations to these writers!
Stay tuned for the Top 100 announcement on October 21st 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:
| “BEFORE EXILE” | jeff mustard |
| 80 Cents of Wonder | Roland Heep |
| 80 Kroner | Stephen Bonino |
| A Crime Novel | Noah Lloyd |
| A Definition | Amanda Kohr |
| A Girl Called Redemption | Sophie Neville |
| A Murder in Shinjuku | Yugo Hoshi |
| A New Day | Sue Mell |
| A ROMANTIC COMEDY | Cerina Aragones |
| A Secret of Red and Ruin | Kirsty Boss |
| A Storm of Spirits (novel excerpt) | Jendi Reiter |
| A Valentine From Your Mother | Chloe Stillwell |
| A Voice From The Moon | Samuel Finn |
| Agvnige & The Puzzling Resplendence | Gregory Lemmons |
| Ain’t Never No Snow in Atlantis | Bobby Burnett Lee |
| Alice Will Save You | D. A. Jolivette |
| Amanda Says | Carleigh Foutch |
| Amelia | Morgan Rothwell |
| Animal Control | Jen Knox |
| Annie From Iowa | Liesl Wilke |
| As Luck Would Have It | Jason Mueller |
| Baghdad Blues | Courtney Suttle |
| Barstow, Texas 1941 | Amanda Mitchell |
| Beautiful Dreamer | Sarah Taylor |
| BEAUTY TIPS & TRICKS FOR THE APOCALYPSE | Mary Elder |
| BECAUSE YOU KNEW | Noelle |
| Beenya Soul | Toni Dianne Holm |
| BEFORE CLOSURE | Shadley Grei |
| Benson Family Secrets | Sean Armstrong |
| Better! Faster!: A Chronicle of Technology-Driven Change | Alex Kipp |
| BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE WIDE WIDE SEA | Kathryn Christopher |
| Beyond Tomorrow’s Sun | Ronald McGuire |
| Blood for the Anunnaki | Randall Moore |
| Blood Reprisal | Karlianna Voncil |
| Buds | Hallie Reese Kostrencich |
| Bulldog Murphy | Chris Corbett |
| Bulldog Murphy | Chris Corbett |
| Burn My Shadow (A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life) | Tyler Knight |
| Calamity, Or How A Sudden Lack Of Toilet Paper Led To My Untimely Inclusion In The Apocalypse | Julia Bianco |
| California Is an Earthquake | Leanne Phillips |
| Carpool Confidential | Karen Scholl |
| Children of the Sun | Jandos Azerbay |
| CHOKE | Claire Chitham |
| Cibolero | Kermit Lopez |
| Close Enough to Canada | Anna Forsyth |
| Cobalt Blues Forever | Sung-Ju Suya Lee |
| CODE THREE | Henry Lansing Woodward |
| Damaged Goods | Debbi Mack |
| Dance of Little Wishes | Padraic Lee Fisher |
| Dark Blossom | Vincent Stoia |
| Dead Men Tell No Tales in High School | Michelle Blair Wilker |
| Death of a Nightingale – Short Story | Annika Pampel |
| Deer Shoots Man (…then steals his cigarettes) | Tyler Knight |
| Displacement | Noémi VanSlyke |
| Distraction & Anesthesia | James L Head |
| Drawn into Danger: Living on the Edge in the Sahara. | Keith Costelloe |
| Dried Figs or Dates | Siawosh K. Eskandari |
| Drown ‘Em Like Puppies | Maria Wickens |
| Dust from the Mouth | Michael Austin |
| EDIE WALKER AND THE NIGHT TERRORS | VP Anderson |
| Empire in Exile | Ren-Horng Wang |
| Endpoint: Confluence | J.W. Griffin |
| Evil F—ing Clowns | Chris Bolton |
| Finch | David Shawn Klein |
| First Fate | Annette Kendall |
| Flabbergast | Kenya Thames |
| Flames | Damond Fudge |
| Floating Underwater | Tracy Shawn |
| Fourth Generation Farmer | Dominick Gasperini |
| Fucking Guys | Aaron Schroeder |
| Fuel Is Thicker Than Water | Stephen Avitabile |
| Future Shadows | Willem Peters |
| GAME – a Finn Teller short story | Twist Phelan |
| Ganglers | Mark Renshaw |
| Gangster of Love | Maria Wickens |
| God of Thunder | Vincent Stoia |
| Gods of Sound: The Perilous Path of Cameron Foster | QM Schaffer |
| GOODBYE BABY | Jack Polo |
| Gothic Revival | Michael Mullin |
| Green Kid One | Holly Blackman |
| Habitan – The Parallel Place | Cheryl Skory Suma |
| HALL OF SKULLS | Jamie Eubanks |
| Harry Harambee’s Kenyan Sundowner: A Novel | Gerald Jones |
| Harvest | Michael Griffith |
| Haunted House Sitters | Charlene Ellen |
| Hidden Dangers of Camping | Liesl Wilke |
| HOLLYWOOD ENDING | Jon Lindstrom |
| Homewrecked | Ruby Soames |
| Hope Springs – Autumn | Jess Huxx |
| Ije Mmiri (Water Journey) | Uzo Chijioke |
| Ill Messiah | Jarrett Brandon Early |
| Immortalised to Death | Lyn Squire |
| In The Slipstream | Josh Taylor |
| In Too Deep | Duranna Thomas |
| INCURSIO | Stephen Sinclair |
| Into The Void | Michael Esser |
| Inventing Angels | Maria Wickens |
| It’s Raining Men | Hollie Smurthwaite |
| JAY GATSBY & FOGGY JOE | Richard Guimond |
| Jenny In A Bottle | Michael Ezell |
| Just Add Water or a Lie | Christi Carter |
| KEEPERS | Christine Autrand Mitchell |
| King of All | Kirsty Boss |
| Kiree’s Journey | Colleen Jiron |
| KNOW | Sung-Ju Suya Lee |
| Last Job on Earth | Thomas Ukinski |
| Leaves of the Sibyl | Leah Lopez |
| Legendary:A Virtue Reality | Sophia Porter |
| Like it was Nothing | K Fleig |
| Lila and Her Demons | Nicole Crowley |
| Little Bird | Michael Mau |
| Little Girl In The Golden Tower | Josh Taylor |
| Lost, Forgotten | Neima Patterson |
| Love and a Sachet of JooJoo and other infidelities | Shari Poindexter |
| Loveoid | JL Morin |
| Lullabies for Wayward Girls | Maria Kennedy |
| Luna | David Thomas McKenna |
| Lunar Pressure | Ujwal Rajaputhra |
| Madam Eggs | Jim Swanson |
| MAINE TIGER | Michael Diamond |
| MaySin-DickSee Line | Sung-Ju Suya Lee |
| Mere Mortals | Andrew Bumstead |
| Merla Smudge & The Mystery of Smoggy Inc. | Jeff Shephard |
| Midnight at the Pet Express | Liesl Wilke |
| Miranda’s War | Andrea Malin |
| MONARCH | Shayla Durbois |
| Monsoon | Karlina Veras |
| Monster | Lauren Certo |
| Musgrave, Georgia | Elizabeth Ann Johnson |
| My So-Called Ruined Life | Melanie Bishop |
| Newton’s Cradle | Teresa Kamman |
| No Time for the Present | James Cusick |
| North of Sunrise | Gavin Fee |
| NORVEL: An American Hero | KENNETH CONKLIN |
| Not If, When | Elizabeth Weeks |
| Not My Sister | Leigh Merry |
| One More Season: The Birth of Football’s Spread Offense | Lorin Fife |
| One Now or Ten Later | Danielle Monique |
| One of Us | K.T. Jayne |
| Opening the Bodies | Jennifer Schuberth |
| Oriflamme | Noah Pohl |
| Painting Sunsets | Stephen Evans |
| Penetration | Alex Yalen |
| Pigs 2050 | Theresa Cardiello |
| Planet Addiction | Mere Walton |
| Playtime at the Bagh | Reenita Hora |
| Please Don’t Shoot Anyone Tonight | Dave Newman |
| Popsicle | Christa Wojciechowski |
| Preacher Raises the Dead: An Evan Wycliff Mystery | Gerald Jones |
| Promised Land | Philip Elliott |
| Real Cops | Frank Hickey, Lynwood Shiva Sawyer (Publisher) |
| Red-eye to Edinburgh | Melvin Sterne |
| Remembrances | Mark Broucek |
| Revenge They Agreed | Peter Myerson |
| Revisions | Andrew Large |
| Ruby Roy and the Murder in the Falls | Rima Ray |
| Run Risk | Nate Crocker |
| Saltborn | Debbie Trecek Volkens |
| SAVIOURS DAY | Lewis Kinmond |
| Sentient Being Blues | Christopher Rose |
| Separate Bedrooms | Matt Clemons |
| Serena the Switch Witch | Sara Vance |
| SEX PARTNER #9 | Sanyee Yuan |
| Shadow Realm | Reenita Hora |
| Shoot the Horses First | Leah Angstman |
| Signs Of The Cross | Patrick Furlong |
| Silver Tsunami | Monica Lee |
| Skeleton Prayer | Joshua Rodgers |
| Something, Somehow, Somewhere | Alexa Weik von Mossner |
| Song of Songs | Melissa Morelli Lacroix |
| Standing In Water | Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich |
| Starstuff | Gary Bakewell |
| Tenir, BlueBoy, Passage | Ted Zahrfeld |
| The Adventures of Terrorwield | Rory Ruane |
| The Adventures of Watts and Sherlock: The R.X. Problem | Katie Magnusson |
| The Armageddon Vector | Michael Corey |
| The Art of Elodie | Michelle Luke |
| The Blackmore Mysteries – The Canning Case | A Tuck |
| The Boogeymen | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The Brothers Winkelstein and the Homburg Hat | Guy Polin |
| The Caregiver | Jim Gourley |
| The Chancer | Fiona Graham |
| The Circle at Liberation Square | Jessica Jiji |
| The Country Journalist | Graham Osborne |
| The Dark Easy | Michael Crame |
| The Dead Chip Syndicate | Andrew Pearson |
| The Delilah Project | Sophie Lamzik |
| The Dew of Men | Dina Mousa |
| The Dog Who Ate the World: A Fairy Tale | M Stevens |
| The Dreadful Edgar Bonesworth | Conor Kyle |
| The Easy Way Out | Greg Rempel |
| The Elfling Challenge | Niccole Lee Rumans |
| The Enlightened – Launch Pad | Andries Ehlers |
| The Ficus | Michelle Blair Wilker |
| The Fourth Year | Christopher Backs |
| The Genius and the KGB | Wanda Fischer |
| The Ghosts of Okuma | Mitch Wieland |
| THE GIRL IN THE MONKEY PIT | GORDON HALLORAN |
| The Goddess Club | Amy Reardon |
| The Great Gimmelmans | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| The Half Measure | Melissa Ragsly |
| The Hidden | Mandy Artusato |
| The Hollowing of Lady Abigail Hector | Neil Flinchbaugh |
| The Last Cliffhanger | Sara Bibel |
| THE LAST GOODBYE | Russ Josephs |
| The Last Surrender | Jeremy Wadzinski |
| The Lease of Nature | Anderson Boyd |
| The Legend of Santa Claus and the White Hart – Excerpt | Quinn Hopkins |
| The Lion of Judah | Desson Thomson |
| The Londo Chronicles | Three-Book Series | Patricia Simpson |
| The Man with the Heavy Face | Maria Restivo Glassner |
| The Nash Sisters – A Story of Family Sticking Together When It Counts | Leatha Marie |
| The Normal Brothers versus the Arch Enemy | Damond Fudge |
| The Okanagan | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| THE ORDER OF ST. PATRICK | Matthew Ward |
| The Pirate of Souls | Caroline Strong |
| The Psychenauts | Steven Peterson |
| The Riddle of the Hyacinth | Michael Corey |
| The Road Taken | charlie robinson |
| The Rott Inertia | Jarrett Brandon Early |
| THE SEA CHILD | Kathryn Orwig |
| The Secrets Inside Us | Beth Ford |
| The Self-Made Saint | Alexandra Clausen |
| The Snow That Never Fell | Paul Steven Stone |
| The Tank | Brent Hartinger |
| The Tiny Bang: Seven Short Stories Sure To Shake You Awake | Ben Donley |
| The Unchanged World | Stephanie Early Green |
| The Unexplainables: The Other Side Of Locker Five | Joey Aucoin |
| The War Tourists | Curtis Rainer |
| The Way Through The Woods | Brian Lyons |
| The Whack-job Case of the Bull and a China Cabinet | Sunny Marsten |
| Through the Wringer | Heather Donovan |
| Time and Place | Drew Westcott |
| To Her Body | McKenzie Moser |
| Tomorrow | dhtreichler |
| Twyla and the Whiskers of Doom | Audrey Hackett |
| Under Watertown | Bob Gebert |
| Undertow | Thomas Thonson |
| Ursus Caeruleus | P.S. Lutz |
| Useless Cruelties | Jess Capelle |
| Verona Peck | Lisa Atenasio |
| Water is Thicker than Blood – Novel | Jeff Westmont |
| Welcome Home | Steve Lubs |
| Welcome to Wingspan | Matt McManus |
| What’s Left is Hope | Heather LeRoss |
| Whitehorse | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| words | marie robinson |
| Write Me on the Water | Andrea Malin |
As a reminder if you participated in the additional add-on prize categories, you are still in contention for those prize(s) regardless of making the Second Round. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners.
