Listed below are the Top 100 projects for the 6th Annual Launch Pad Prose Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Top 50 announcement on November 4th 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 100s:
| 80 Cents of Wonder | Roland Heep |
| 80 Kroner | Stephen Bonino |
| A Murder in Shinjuku | Yugo Hoshi |
| A Valentine From Your Mother | Chloe Stillwell |
| Ain’t Never No Snow in Atlantis | Bobby Burnett Lee |
| Amanda Says | Carleigh Foutch |
| Amelia | Morgan Rothwell |
| Annie From Iowa | Liesl Wilke |
| As Luck Would Have It | Jason Mueller |
| BEAUTY TIPS & TRICKS FOR THE APOCALYPSE | Mary Elder |
| 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 |
| Blood for the Anunnaki | Randall Moore |
| 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 |
| Close Enough to Canada | Anna Forsyth |
| Deer Shoots Man (…then steals his cigarettes) | Tyler Knight |
| Displacement | Noémi VanSlyke |
| 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 |
| EDIE WALKER AND THE NIGHT TERRORS | VP Anderson |
| Evil F—ing Clowns | Chris Bolton |
| Finch | David Shawn Klein |
| First Fate | Annette Kendall |
| Flabbergast | Kenya Thames |
| Fourth Generation Farmer | Dominick Gasperini |
| Fucking Guys | Aaron Schroeder |
| Future Shadows | Willem Peters |
| Ganglers | Mark Renshaw |
| God of Thunder | Vincent Stoia |
| Gothic Revival | Michael Mullin |
| Haunted House Sitters | Charlene Ellen |
| Ije Mmiri (Water Journey) | Uzo Chijioke |
| Immortalised to Death | Lyn Squire |
| INCURSIO | Stephen Sinclair |
| Into The Void | Michael Esser |
| KNOW | Sung-Ju Suya Lee |
| Love and a Sachet of JooJoo and other infidelities | Shari Poindexter |
| Luna | David Thomas McKenna |
| MAINE TIGER | Michael Diamond |
| Mere Mortals | Andrew Bumstead |
| Midnight at the Pet Express | Liesl Wilke |
| MONARCH | Shayla Durbois |
| Monster | Lauren Certo |
| My So-Called Ruined Life | Melanie Bishop |
| Newton’s Cradle | Teresa Kamman |
| No Time for the Present | James Cusick |
| North of Sunrise | Gavin Fee |
| Not If, When | Elizabeth Weeks |
| One Now or Ten Later | Danielle Monique |
| One of Us | K.T. Jayne |
| Opening the Bodies | Jennifer Schuberth |
| Oriflamme | Noah Pohl |
| Penetration | Alex Yalen |
| Playtime at the Bagh | Reenita Hora |
| Remembrances | Mark Broucek |
| Ruby Roy and the Murder in the Falls | Rima Ray |
| Saltborn | Debbie Trecek Volkens |
| Separate Bedrooms | Matt Clemons |
| SEX PARTNER #9 | Sanyee Yuan |
| Shoot the Horses First | Leah Angstman |
| Signs Of The Cross | Patrick Furlong |
| Skeleton Prayer | Joshua Rodgers |
| STANDING IN WATER | Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich |
| The Armageddon Vector | Michael Corey |
| The Art of Elodie | Michelle Luke |
| 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 Dew of Men | Dina Mousa |
| The Enlightened – Launch Pad | Andries Ehlers |
| The Ficus | Michelle Blair Wilker |
| The Ghosts of Okuma | Mitch Wieland |
| The Goddess Club | Amy Reardon |
| The Great Gimmelmans | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| The Hollowing of Lady Abigail Hector | Neil Flinchbaugh |
| The Last Cliffhanger | Sara Bibel |
| THE LAST GOODBYE | Russ Josephs |
| The Lion of Judah | Desson Thomson |
| The Pirate of Souls | Caroline Strong |
| The Riddle of the Hyacinth | Michael Corey |
| The Tiny Bang: Seven Short Stories Sure To Shake You Awake | Ben Donley |
| The Unexplainables: The Other Side Of Locker Five | Joey Aucoin |
| The Way Through The Woods | Brian Lyons |
| The Whack-job Case of the Bull and a China Cabinet | Sunny Marsten |
| To Her Body | McKenzie Moser |
| Under Watertown | Bob Gebert |
| Useless Cruelties | Jess Capelle |
| Welcome to Wingspan | Matt McManus |
| Whitehorse | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| words | marie robinson |
