Listed below are the Top 100 projects of the 7th Annual Launch Pad Prose 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 September 1st 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:
| 115 Mohegan | Kelsey Wacker |
| A Kind of Wild Justice | Amy Dannenmueller |
| A Shy Girl | Amisha Upadhyaya |
| All the Idle Weeds That Grow | Brian Koukol |
| An Accident | Sean Kearney |
| An Excess of Light | Amisha Upadhyaya |
| Ari and the Star Kids | Jared Doles |
| BASED ON A TRUE STORY | Dave Eisenstark |
| Bee Conspiracy | David Boito |
| Better Left Unsaid | Anne McAneny |
| Bloodlands | Taylor Stein |
| BOHAN THE MAGE | Shayla Durbois |
| Book of the Flock | Rob Benvie |
| Born to Run | Anna Forsyth |
| Breakers | Peter Short |
| Bucket’s List | Gary Blackwood |
| Canadian Pastoral | Alastair Luft |
| Clutch Start | Keith Michaels |
| Darkness of the Ecuadorian Sunset | Stephen Avitabile |
| Dead-end Vagina | Jennifer Steil |
| Don’t Look For Her | KC Catalona |
| English-English | Aneil Fatania |
| Fenian’s Trace | Sean Mahoney |
| Fired | Sean Cominelli |
| Flirtologist | Madeline O’Leary |
| Foremother | Lane Blevins |
| Forever | S. R. Bevilacqua |
| FRANKENBOT GPT | Nathan Allen |
| Galena | Gregory Golbitz |
| Hell Bent for Heather | Sebastian Bendix |
| Hero | Mathieu Cailler |
| Heroes | Andrew Large |
| High Ground | Richard Lee |
| Homecoming Dance | Matt Fried |
| Homegirl | Christine Beatty |
| Hunk Town, USA. | Katy McClellan |
| I PROMISE YOU PAIN | Bart Baker |
| In Dave We Trust | Sam Fasano |
| Insight | Byron Armstrong |
| Iron Crow | Tamara Kahler |
| It’ll Cost Us Tomorrow | Christopher Narvaez |
| Judas Moon | Joshua Rodgers |
| Keeper of the Rose (YA) | Eileen Ross |
| Laurel Canyon Lullaby | Timothy Burgess |
| Letters from Tehran | Kuros Charney |
| MISS DEEDS | Robert Bonvento |
| Neko Reynolds and the Mystery of the Standish Cross | Nicole Quinn |
| Nurture | Jackie Fenn |
| Obsidian | J. Alexander Greenwood |
| Overture | Wesley Hopper |
| Penelope and The Dream-movers | Andrea M. Jensen |
| Pizza Boy | Jordan Dee Crabtree |
| Practical Guide to a Semi-Detached Body | Alex Xavier |
| Rockwell’s America | Thomas Thonson |
| Sentient Being Blues | Christopher Rose |
| She Got What She Deserved | John Potter |
| So Good They Can’t Ignore You | Owen Levy |
| Some Occurrences in Wickford Village | Erin Lawrence |
| Stage Flight | Alex Reed |
| Superegaux | Christian Wisecarver |
| Tenderstemmed Hearts | Ru Gupte |
| TERROiR | Annie Humphrey |
| The Aberrant Inquisitor | Justin Fox |
| The Archer’s Thread | Noel Zamot |
| The Bigwigs | Joshua Henaman |
| The Cat in the Creek | Sean McPharlin |
| The Coffin Shaped Kites | Sheldon Gleisser |
| The Cost of Sin | Toni Bellon |
| The Crown Prince of Koi | Daniel Abiva Hunt |
| The Difference Maker | Steffi Halow |
| THE EXECUTIONER | Nola Solomon |
| The Huxian Fox | Nikki Brooke |
| The Island of the Cave Bear | Matthew Coffern |
| The Lost and the Coyote | Vincent Paiement Désilets |
| The Odiferous Destiny of Alexander Sparks | Penny Berman |
| The Offering | J Bryan McGeever |
| The Painting | Sheila Myers |
| The Passion of the Long-Haul Friar | Bill Gusky |
| The Quarter Queen | Kayla Hardy |
| The Right Way | Saul Rubin |
| The Shadowlake Project | Ed Vela |
| The Sharks of Market Street | Michael Ezell |
| The Urging | Christopher Backs |
| They Became Silent: Book 1 | LaShawn Evans |
| Thicker Than Blood | John Bankston |
| Three Drops of Color | Cassandra Myers |
| Traveler | Alyssa Cami |
| Undertow | Kemmer Keswani Cope |
| Unfinished | Loretta Bigg |
| Unmade Lives | Vikram Kapur |
| Unthinkable | John David Taylor |
| Village Idiots | Michael Angelella |
| Water is Thicker than Blood – Novel | Jeff Westmont |
| Waterloo | Ben Carter Olcott |
| Welcome to Circus Town | Julie Ann Slaby |
| Where The Air Is | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Whistle Punk | Brian Simmons |
| World War 2 Story (working title) | Sheldon Gleisser |
| XO | Craig Phillips |
| Zigzag Girl | RUTH KNAFO SETTON |
