Listed below are the Top 100 of the 8th 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 August 16th 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.
Here is the Top 100:
| < PYGMALION > | Faith Consiglio |
| A Glimpse at the Eclipse | Susan Lee Hahn |
| A Moment of Your Time | Ester Bloom |
| A Practical Guide to Escorting | Daria Salamon |
| A Seeping Wound | Darryl Wimberley |
| A Touch of Color | Pat Branch |
| After The Howling | J.R. Johnson |
| All Good Quests | Joe Graber |
| Animal Control | Jen Knox |
| As Nature Intended | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Betwixt | Susan Arscott |
| Blood Quantum | Nicole Newman |
| Bunny’s Garden | Nick Holterman |
| Can’t Feel a Thing | Noah Burns |
| Catherine’s Mercy | Nicole Evelina |
| Corpse Flower | Allison Mick |
| Cyclone | Jason Mandell |
| Dan’s Favorite Color Is Blue | Saoirse McGurrin |
| Death at the Sundial Motel | Aaron Clark |
| Demo | Saleh Karaman |
| Devil’s Planet | Tanya Klein |
| Diary of a Mad Girl | Zena Logan |
| Dilemma on Mars | Fred Shackelford |
| Disappeared | Becky Schoener |
| Eden | Tiyan Newman |
| Enraged with Happiness | Olivia Klassen |
| FREEBIRD | Jung Park |
| GOATSUCKER | Kathryn Christopher |
| Gravity Is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book One | Sarah Lahey |
| Haint Blue & Other Hues | Aaron Brock Dehn |
| Hellfire | Taylor Gunn |
| Hemingway Slept Here | Brett Block |
| Hypatia: In Her Own Words | Lukman Clark |
| I Knew You Then | Kelly Kirwan |
| In The Clouds | Marius Stan |
| Into the Marrow | Gary Allison |
| It Rained Frogs Last Nite | Joseph X Casillas |
| Jackson Hole | Jessica Friedman |
| Jeb Wright, Colonial Assassin | David Meek |
| Karma, LLC | Shado Evans |
| Keeping It In The Family | Kevin Regan |
| Little Catastrophes, Ordinary Joy | Morgan Kovacs |
| Lonerock After Midnight | Troy Widner |
| Love Lost on Cloud 9 | Kirstie Brote |
| Lunaris | Daniel Parra |
| M*M*A*S*H | Arjan Sudick |
| My Taylor Era | Debbie Trecek Volkens |
| Noah and the Nighttime Things | Harrison Demchick |
| Not the One or the Other | Christopher Mark Rose |
| Ocean Pacific | Alex Simon |
| October Seven | Steven Stiefel |
| October Skin | Joshua Rodgers |
| On The Surface | Rachel McGuire |
| Painting Lessons | Jennifer MacDormand |
| Phoenix | Christopher Robin Hood |
| Pitchforks | Michael Burke |
| Poisoned Pine | JJ Moore |
| Rip’d: A Tall Tale | Joachim Blunck |
| Scars & Honey | Jo Morgan Sloan |
| Secret Fences | Zakiya Raines |
| Sex & Death | Thomas Thonson |
| Silver Tsunami | Monica Lee |
| Soul Transplant | Izabela Borowska |
| Stardust Girl | Christine Beatty |
| Swamp Girl | Ruth Knafo Setton |
| Terminal Deception | A.M. Khalifa |
| The Angelmakers of Nagyrév | Liz McClintock |
| The Axe | David Shawn Klein |
| The Bones of Hope | Maria Ostrowski |
| The Bunny Man’s Campfire Tales | Gary Dimmett |
| The Cat That Played Chess | Catarrina Cummings |
| The Darkling | Kimberly Ellis |
| The Darkness | Robbi Bryant |
| The Ferryman | Brent Hartinger |
| The Final Spectacle | Julie Ann Slaby |
| The Gazer and The Initiate | Saul Rubin |
| The Girl in the Water | Joseph Howse |
| The Gods Chosen | Ashley Tropea |
| The Judas Apocalypse | Dan McNeil |
| The Man In The Vending Machine | Pedro Salinas |
| The Matildas | Dave Pasquantonio |
| The Meat They Feed On | Stephanie Early Green |
| The Night Shift | Matt Spataro |
| The Rag Princess | Ellie Jay |
| The Real Boys | Matthew Brady |
| The Resurrection | Geraldine Creed |
| The Snow Globe Queen | John Faust |
| The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne | Ron Destro |
| The World Beyond the Redbud Tree | Madison Brightwell |
| Two Riders | Josh Taylor |
| Unto the Day | Evan Laughlin |
| Vacationland | Scott Liapis |
| View From the Alley | James Stetina |
| Waiting | Kim Lee Winslow |
| We Keep Our Own | Thom Evans |
| What The Dead Can Do | Peter Rosch |
| What Unbreakable Looks Like | Kate McLaughlin |
| Where We Go From Here | Matthew Haynes |
| Whiteout | Christopher Robin Hood |
| Will It Be Like This Forever? | Lindsay Grossman |
