Listed below are the Top 50 finalists 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 10 announcement on September 22nd 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 50:
| 115 Mohegan | Kelsey Wacker |
| A Kind of Wild Justice | Amy Dannenmueller |
| An Accident | Sean Kearney |
| Bloodlands | Taylor Stein |
| Bohan The Mage | Shayla Durbois |
| Book of the Flock | Rob Benvie |
| Breakers | Peter Short |
| Bucket’s List | Gary Blackwood |
| Clutch Start | Keith Michaels |
| Darkness of the Ecuadorian Sunset | Stephen Avitabile |
| Dead-end Vagina | Jennifer Steil |
| Fenian’s Trace | Sean Mahoney |
| Fired | Sean Cominelli |
| Flirtologist | Madeline O’Leary |
| From the West | Sheldon Gleisser |
| Hero | Mathieu Cailler |
| Heroes | Andrew Large |
| Homecoming Dance | Matt Fried |
| Hunk Town, USA. | Katy McClellan |
| In Dave We Trust | Sam Fasano |
| Judas Moon | Joshua Rodgers |
| Keeper of the Rose (YA) | Eileen Ross |
| Laurel Canyon Lullaby | Timothy Burgess |
| Letters from Tehran | Kuros Charney |
| Nurture | Jackie Fenn |
| Pizza Boy | Jordan Dee Crabtree |
| Rockwell’s America | Thomas Thonson |
| Stage Flight | Alex Reed |
| The Aberrant Inquisitor | Justin Fox |
| 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 Huxian Fox | Nikki Brooke |
| The Lost and the Coyote | Vincent Paiement Désilets |
| The Odiferous Destiny of Alexander Sparks | Penny Berman |
| The Passion of the Long-Haul Friar | Bill Gusky |
| The Quarter Queen | Kayla Hardy |
| The Sharks of Market Street | Michael Ezell |
| The Urging | Christopher Backs |
| They Became Silent: Book 1 | LaShawn Evans |
| Three Drops of Color | Cassandra Myers |
| Traveler | Alyssa Cami |
| Undertow | Kemmer Keswani Cope |
| Unmade Lives | Vikram Kapur |
| Village Idiots | Michael Angelella |
| Waterloo | Ben Carter Olcott |
| XO | Craig Phillips |
| Zigzag Girl | Ruth Knafo Setton |
