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 |
| Words | marie robinson |
