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6th Annual Launch Pad Prose Competition Top 50

By November 4, 2022No Comments

Listed below are the Top 50 projects for the 6th Annual Launch Pad Prose Competition. Congratulations to the writers who have advanced to this round!

Stay tuned for the Top 10 announcement on November 18th 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 are the Top 50:

80 Kroner Stephen Bonino
Ain’t Never No Snow in Atlantis Bobby Burnett Lee
As Luck Would Have It Jason Mueller
BEAUTY TIPS & TRICKS FOR THE APOCALYPSE Mary Elder
Better! Faster!: A Chronicle of Technology-Driven Change Alex Kipp
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE WIDE WIDE SEA Kathryn Christopher
Bulldog Murphy Chris Corbett
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
CHOKE Claire Chitham
Close Enough to Canada Anna Forsyth
Deer Shoots Man (…then steals his cigarettes) Tyler Knight
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
Evil F—ing Clowns Chris Bolton
Finch David Shawn Klein
First Fate Annette Kendall
Fourth Generation Farmer Dominick Gasperini
Future Shadows Willem Peters
God of Thunder Vincent Stoia
Ije Mmiri (Water Journey) Uzo Chijioke
Luna David Thomas McKenna
MONARCH Shayla Durbois
Monster Lauren Certo
My So-Called Ruined Life Melanie Bishop
Newton’s Cradle Teresa Kamman
North of Sunrise Gavin Fee
Not If, When Elizabeth Weeks
One of Us K.T. Jayne
Opening the Bodies Jennifer Schuberth
Playtime at the Bagh Reenita Hora
Remembrances Mark Broucek
Saltborn Debbie Trecek Volkens
SEX PARTNER #9 Sanyee Yuan
Shoot the Horses First Leah Angstman
Skeleton Prayer Joshua Rodgers
The Brothers Winkelstein and the Homburg Hat Guy Polin
The Caregiver Jim Gourley
The Chancer Fiona Graham
The Ficus Michelle Blair Wilker
The Ghosts of Okuma Mitch Wieland
The Great Gimmelmans Lee Matthew Goldberg
The Lion of Judah Desson Thomson
The Tiny Bang: Seven Short Stories Sure To Shake You Awake Ben Donley
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
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