Congratulations to the Second Rounders from this year’s competition! Our Top 100 Finalists will be announced on October 22nd.
| Title | Writer(s) |
| #throwbackthursday | Tyrel Lougheed |
| 10 Miles Outside of Homer, Alaska | Julia Bergeron |
| 1000 Miles To Ontario | Farboud Vaziri |
| 2088: A Farmer Takes A Wife | Russell Bennett |
| 23 Yards | Maahir Khan |
| A Bit Much | Stacy Dymalski |
| A Breed Apart | Jayne Maginot |
| A Coin Called Grace | Mitchell Montgomery and Zach Abdallah |
| A Daughter Like Me | Zachary Joel Johnson |
| A Friend In The Dark | Zaza Karaim |
| A Stellar Life | Paul Fernandez |
| A Trial for Miles | Duane Rodney |
| Above Us Only Sky | Nathan Patton |
| Acids | Amelia Phillips |
| Ada | Jason Porath and Emily Rifkin |
| Adventure: The Story from a Chinese Immigrant | Jun Kuang |
| Aftermath | Justin Boyd |
| All Things Falsely | Suzanne Faber |
| Alma | Hillary Schoelzel |
| Ambergris | Jacobo Fe Gismera |
| American Cowboy. Part 1 | Pepi Kokab |
| An Irish Errand | Ari Frankel |
| An Other | Christopher Backs |
| Anansi and the Chest of Stories | Ayinde Ricco |
| Anybody But Yourself | J. Morgan Baker |
| Anywhere But Here | Debbie Castanha |
| Argonauta | Suzanne Rindell |
| ART – The Movie Musical | Matthew Puckett |
| Asylum | Toofun West and Anna West |
| Audit | Geordie Sabbagh |
| Backhaul | Patrick T. Dorsey |
| Bad Business | Andrew Adams |
| Bad Choice | Gary Lippman |
| Bad Romance | Chad Wellinger |
| Baggage | David Lambertson |
| Balefire | Rebecca Carter |
| Ball | Luke Duffy |
| Barnstorming: A Story of Sex and Baseball | Ronald Drescher |
| Baroness | Brent Hartinger |
| Be My End | Peter von Grendle |
| Bear Trap | Anthony LaRose |
| Beasts of Burden | Nick Tassoni |
| Best Place in the World | Marco Calvani |
| Better Angels | John Kirkman |
| Big Love – a fable | Brent Bishop |
| Birthright | David Snyder |
| Black Kiss Stigmata | Chad Michael Ward |
| Blackout | Artii Smith |
| Bloodworld | Tochukwu Osuji |
| Blue Moon Fire | Stacey Maltin |
| Blue Sunshine | Oliver Silver |
| Blues For The Father | Joseph L Harrison and Barry Kohl |
| Boat People | David Kane |
| Boil Your Blood | Sam Kench |
| Border Skirmish | James Mulcahy |
| Breast in Show | Andrea Berting |
| Brian | David Bold |
| Broken Stones | Rudi O’Meara |
| Buckethead | Lee Redmond |
| Buffalo | Sarah Dixon |
| BURNER: A Killing in Palm Springs | Bob Canning |
| By Jocelyn Bell | Jordan Randolph |
| By The Yew Tree | Lewis Eastwood |
| Calls From Home | Laura DeBar |
| Capital Punishment | Alina & Bart Norman |
| Captain Manic | Louis Ferrante |
| Cascadia | Tim Millette |
| Cast List | Connor Smith |
| Celebrity Skin | Christopher Greenslate |
| Centurions | Sally Stubbs |
| Charlie’s Pub | Keith Macri |
| Cheaters | Brittany Harris and Caitlin Gallo |
| Chimera | Andrew Kaberline |
| Chindi | Timothy Bryan |
| Chiranha | Steve Briscoe |
| Citizen B | Andrew Reinhard |
| Cleaning House | Mark Grisar |
| Closet | Tony Radevski |
| Cold Hard Cash | Tom Silva |
| Cold, Nevada | Chris Bean |
| Compulsion | Brady Nelson |
| Core Ruleset | Timothy Bryan |
| Cosmos Garden | Brian Gonka |
| Coyote | Fredrick Leach |
| Crash Landing | Cord McConnell |
| Crush the Monster | Alex Odaguar |
| Custody | Beau Farrell |
| Cutthroat | Carolyn Kras |
| Dad | Stuart Forrest |
| Dad Genes | Kelsey Ross |
| Dating Dick | Pamela Ryckman |
| Daughter of the Samurai | Esther Shihabi |
| Daylight | Michael Morra |
| DeadW0Lf69 | Shayne Eastin |
| Death by Feline | Patrick Leivici |
| Delicate Arch | Matt Warren |
| Devil’s Night | Mike Voltz |
| Devour | Peter Petrucci |
| Dirt | Baakal Geleta |
| Dirty Movies on VHS | Whitney Melton |
| Do Not Go Gently | Tara Jean O’Brien |
| Doc Band-Aid | Bob Bland |
| Doljabi | Robert Park |
| Door | Sara Magness and Wil Magness |
| Down the lane | Johanna Moreau |
| Dragon | Dave Holton |
| Dragon Rider | Michael Tracy |
| Dream House | Ryan Berry and C.L.R. |
| Dreamboat | Aluisio Leite |
| Dreamer | Marisa Hardwicke |
| Dumplings For Christmas | David Au and Mark Neal |
| Duty | Anthony Ford |
| East of Westwood | Amir Mosallaie |
| Election Night | Eboni Boykin |
| Elsie | Fernanda Cardoso |
| Escaping Disposal | Brian Dzyak |
| Europa | Sidney Nordstrom |
| Eva’s American Dream | Isabella Bodnar |
| Ex Cops | Brian Walsh |
| Executing Mercy | Ingrid Schoenfeld |
| Exit Fee | Gunny Troelstrup |
| Facade | Dash Finley and Evan Scott |
| Faker! | Eric Thompson |
| False Sense | Craig Cambria |
| Feast | Harris Gurny |
| Federico Erotico | David Stovall |
| Feeling Gravity’s Pull | Mark Brown |
| Femme Fatale in Stiletto Heels | Pam Price |
| Final Draft | Dennis Johnson |
| Finding Alexandria | Sy Huq |
| Fire Ant | Charlie LaRose |
| Fire Load | Laura Kemp |
| First Kill | Thomas George Mazzola |
| Five Swords Under Heaven | Logan Shaw |
| Five With A Bullet | Christopher Isenegger |
| Flaming Cold | Jordan Gustafson |
| Fontana | John Michael Riva Jr. |
| Foodie: The Begrudging Palate of Berwin Trug | Xan Wynne-Jones |
| For Marie | Madeleine Dean |
| Forevermind | William Dickerson |
| Forgotten Depths | Ted Bronson |
| Frank Dresden | Colin McLaughlin |
| Freak | Amir Ohebsion |
| Freelance | Mike Gerbino |
| From Little Acorns Grow | Laura Kosann |
| Garamba | Aaron C. Wong |
| Ghost Busted | Mara Ganz and Eliza Maher |
| Ghost Writer | Courtney Hull |
| Gig | Krystyna Loboda |
| Glimpses | Tammy Klembith |
| Glisten | Connor Smith |
| Glory HIlls | G. Wallace Gamble |
| Going to Meet the Devil | Adel Morales |
| Good Deeds | Jeanette Campbell |
| Good Grief | Reina Slutske |
| Good Husbands | Ari Halevy |
| Grace Canyon Ranch | Jim Lopezzo |
| Grandma Wars | Betty Sullivan |
| Greensleeves | Tom Radovich and Blake Middleton |
| Grifted | Seth Ruffer and Hyesoo Kim |
| Gulp! | John Whitcher |
| Hail Mary | Sophia Baratti |
| Hanshi | Carolyn Johnson |
| Happy Little Accidents | Andy Erikson |
| Happy Little Trees | Patrick Franklin |
| Have Mercy | Jason Ruscio |
| He Wanted You To Have It | Oona Garthwaite |
| Heads Up | Heather Ostrove |
| Heart Land | Lauren Ciaravalli |
| Heart of the Desert | Miguel Parga |
| Hell Flight | Michael Stark |
| Hellfire | Mark Dollard |
| Here To Stay | Sara Robin and Shirley Miller |
| Higher Art | Mariya Alexander and Crystal Sugarman |
| Hit That | Chase Karpus |
| Hoe-Mission | Eric Pou |
| How To Find True Love When The Fucking World Just Ain’t Gay Enough | Kimon Koufogiannis |
| Human Collateral | Tanya Hilson |
| Hungry Joe | Paul Holbrook |
| Hungry Man | Jordan Prosser |
| I Visited A Parallel Universe and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt | Russ Josephs |
| If I Didn’t Love You | Melinda Maerker |
| If They Were Of Us | Rosemary Griggs |
| If, Because, In Spite of | Kıvanç Çakmakçı |
| Illicit Affairs | Talia Walters |
| Imagine/Nation | Phil Krampf |
| In the Dark | Mandy Newton |
| In the Lake of Fire | Blake Robbins |
| In the Meantime | Joe Wielosinski |
| Ink. | Heidi Nyburg |
| Inside Life | Vanessa Herron |
| International Waters | Stephen Gill |
| Into the Rust | Oliver Silver |
| Intolerable Acts | Matt Cochran |
| Irma | Matthew Perkins |
| Island of the Jews | Andrew Irvine |
| Jewel | Tamara Steren |
| Jumpman | Matthew Breault and Alex George Pickering |
| June Turned Around | Karlyn Gibson |
| June War | Clea Montville-Wood |
| Junker | Hunter Hadfield |
| Just for Today | Oli Canavan |
| Jvvl | Peter Faint |
| Kill for Love | Maceo Greenberg and Laura Picklesimer |
| Killing Kelly | Katy Erin |
| Killing the Live | Danny Salemme |
| Kin | Jessi Campbell |
| King Afua | Charlene Jean |
| Knock on the Sky | Robin De Mayo |
| Kyle | Jena Kaplaniak |
| Lawman | Dennis Smith |
| Legato | Paul S. Casey |
| Legend Of The Sky Drifters, or Murph And Alex Go To Time-Jail | Dustin Milligan |
| Legendary | Sophia Porter |
| Legends | Suhashini Krishnan |
| Let’s Go Crazy | Cory Krueckeberg |
| Level Up | Hymnson Chan |
| Liability | John Kelley |
| Lies We Tell | Heather Ragsdale |
| Life On The Curb | Ty Strange |
| Lifeclock | Scott Nabat |
| Likeable | Courtney Weaver and Liz Goodwin |
| Lone Rock | Steve Maidment |
| Long Live John Africa! | Sean Slater |
| Longshadow | Sean Cunningham |
| Look at Me | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte and Dan Gallun |
| Lost in Manhattan | Artii Smith |
| Lost in Toronto | Martina Muhoberac |
| Love You More | Delano Del Potter and Michelle Adams |
| Love, Crime, and Boots | Janice Naehu |
| Lucifer the holy opposition | Ruben Jones |
| Lucky Penny | Marc Rosenzweig |
| M.E.T.A.L. | Neal Thibedeau |
| M.O.M. | Christopher Oroza Nostas and Ronald Johnson |
| MAC + BETH | Jaime Kawamoto |
| Magma Rising | Tim Gilmer |
| Malvado | John Mahony |
| Manifest | Anthony Benigno |
| Mather | Kevin Percival |
| Me & My Mother-In-Law | Lauren Fields |
| Medusa Jones | Barbara Davis |
| Memory Bank | Michael Raymond |
| Merchandise No. 5 | Danny Hogan |
| Mercy | Todd Cahoon |
| MiDog | Laura Antonelli |
| Mind Clone | Brian Connolly |
| Mind Games | Matthew Manson |
| Mind Games | Helene Griffin |
| Mine | Ashley Tropea |
| Minotaur | Tim Auld |
| Miss Christmas City | Christine Pfeiffer Stocke and Dan Stocke |
| Missed Connections | Zachary Griffin |
| Misteria | JL Felker |
| Monster | Elizabeth Urwin |
| Monsters Inside | Nick McDowell |
| Moon’s Monsoon | Alek Abate |
| More Than One Idiot Brother | Pearse Lehane |
| Moscow Fall | Nickolas Daniel |
| Mother | Benas Drabavicius |
| Mother Time | Alexander Bernard and David Donnella |
| Mrs. Kidd | Gary Graves |
| Mutual Agreement | Natalie Ekberg |
| My Missing Year | Stephen Foster |
| My Wild and Secret World | Adam Sandel |
| Naomi | Andy Jafe |
| National Hero | John Vasiliades |
| Nearly Dead | M. K. Martini |
| Nellie Bly Takes on the World | Brittany Bookbinder |
| New Belgium | Thomas Schrack |
| Nits | Aaron Mobley |
| No Good Deed | Heather Farlinger |
| Nonexistent | Mrittika Sarin |
| North of Fear – South of Pain | Dragos Munteanu |
| Not Today | Meron Girmaiy |
| Nour | Maitha Alawadi |
| Nurse Confidential | Tony Martin |
| Offspring | Nicholas Pappas |
| Old Friends | Mike Kravinsky |
| Old Friends | Brandon Cohen |
| Omegacon | Andrew Wilczak |
| On The Skulls of Giants | Zan Gillies |
| One Life | Maximilian Pock |
| One More Before I Go | Isaac Siegemund-Broka |
| One More Hit | Brad Max |
| Only Thus | Miriam Zenilman |
| Ophidian | Charlie McLravy |
| Oprexium | Cody Pearce |
| Orson | Jared Egol |
| Out of the Sky | Arnon Shorr |
| Park Kidz | Quamé Hamlin |
| Peripheral Lies | Graig Solow |
| Pervy Skank Assassins | Lena Buda and Dorrie Lipman |
| Picket Charlie | Michael Graf |
| Pioneer | Nicholas Woods |
| Pisadeiras | Omar Kamara and Jalmer Caceres |
| Pool Boy | Gareth Boucher |
| PostScript | Nelson Downend |
| Potential | Hannah C. Langley |
| Pre-Utopian Tension | Christian Maxwell |
| Pressure Drop | Scott Cramer |
| Protector of the Emerald City | Kevin J. Howard |
| Psycho Free | Amy Blackwelder |
| Pull | Marc Messenger |
| Pulse | Pascal Mercay |
| Quantum Telegraph | Joshua Jashinski |
| Radiex | Rose Gaffney |
| Rebel | Charles Cordaro |
| Retreat | Julie Sharbutt |
| Revelations | Johnny Gilligan |
| Rice | Omar Kamara |
| Riff | Ralph Torrefranca |
| Rough Draft | Jonathan Ferrara |
| Ruby Safeway | Amanda Biggs |
| Run Riot | Rick Kinnebrew |
| Running With The Queen | David Lesser |
| Ruthie the Ruckus | Brendan Boogie |
| Séverin | Maggy Torres-Rodriguez |
| Sangre de mi Sangre (Blood of my Blood) | Nicolas Delgado De La Camara |
| Savage Hills | Jack Costello |
| Saving Cinderella | Melinda Saranchock and Chris Saranchock |
| Scam | Taylor Hopkins |
| Scarred | Sheldon Harper |
| Scorpions | Chris Pittas |
| Screaming in Agony | G. Wilson |
| Sea Dogs | Curtis Matzke |
| Second Generation | Frank Smith |
| Seeds on Mars – Volume One | Alison Glasser |
| Selective Deletion | Eric Owen |
| Send the Nomads | Alexander Guerriero |
| Serpent and the Chair | Alexander Watson |
| Severed Children | Josh Gacita |
| Shatter | Gideon Shmorak |
| Show Me | Kurt Doerr |
| Shred | Peter Vanderwall |
| Shunned | Kevin Bachar |
| Siege on Sand Mountain | John Park |
| Sight | Logan Crawford |
| Silk | Nick Tassoni |
| Sincerely, Miss Worthington | Natalie Rix |
| Sink or Swim | Jeff Bretl |
| Sirens | Daniel Cova |
| Sleeping on Stones | Nicole Ballivian |
| Slow Moe | Xan Wynne-Jones |
| Solomon’s Choice | Richard Geiwitz |
| Sorry | Brittany Pratt |
| Space Suckers | Derick & Rebecca Otto |
| Speak Low if You Speak Love | Lori Stephens |
| Speedway | Billie Jo Mason |
| Spoiler | Michael Sajewski |
| Spoken For | Micki Colker-Pearlman |
| Spring Branch | Keith Woodruff |
| Spy Games | Brian MacGregor |
| Star Chamber | Sebastian Davis |
| Stardogs | Michael Snow |
| Stealing From Pablo | Carlos Gutierrez |
| Stelloola | Deborah Smith |
| Stiletto Assassin | Alexander Sikarevich |
| Strays | Robert Wooldridge |
| Stuck In Neutral | Juan A Mas and Terry Trueman |
| Sunshine is Forever | Kyle T. Cowan |
| Suplex | Bryce Marrero |
| Supporting Roles | CourtneyJo Vossen |
| Surgat | Samantha Marine and Michael Borowiec |
| Sweet Baby Jane | Ryan Bliss and Emilie Peoples |
| Sylvia | Larry Woldenberg |
| Taketh Away | Angel Partie and Michelle Sauer |
| Tarnished | Matthew Walker |
| TARO: Legend of Japan | Blue Spruell |
| Tatsu | Adam Bradley |
| The Apparition Room | Jon James Miller |
| The Ballad of Bay: A Fiction | Aaron Smith |
| The Boulevard | Michael Leoni |
| The Business Plot | Joe Toto |
| The Camera | Jamie Murphy |
| The Carrier | Todd Restler |
| The City of Lost Children | Scott Hamilton |
| The Clubhouse for Wayward Souls | R.J. Blake |
| The Coffin Club | Joel David Santner |
| The Comic Shop | Jonathan Bowen |
| The Community | Brenna Kelly |
| The Creaking Upstairs | David Rodgers |
| The Crossover | Karan Sridharan |
| The Crummiest Book | Daniel Sinclair |
| The Crust | Ben Crane |
| The Curse of Locust Manor | Rachael Blackwood |
| The Day Before | Alan Noah |
| The Deceit | Seyni N’Daw |
| The Deep Cut | Jonathan Samuel |
| The Devil’s Conspiracy | Francis Strickland |
| The Disobedient Colonel | Mehdi Khosravi |
| The False One | Andrew Kevin Fawn |
| The Familiar Ferry | William Williams |
| The Fastest Thing in the Valley | Nicole Ramberg |
| The First Daughter | Abdulrahman Ugas |
| The First Penitent | Josh Jacobs |
| The Flip and the Dead | Greg Harvey |
| The Founders | Eugene Rhee |
| The GarbageMan | Dru Johnston |
| The Ghost | Lindsey Gudritz |
| The Girl With The Paintbrush | Christie Allen |
| The Gravedigger | Lyndal Simpson |
| The Great God Pan | Robert Milner |
| The Great Perhaps | Christine Vartoughian |
| The Gyre Mission | Brian Martin |
| The Home | Efrain Aldaco |
| The House Is On Fire | Justin Geldzahler |
| The Ideal Woman | Laura Kosann |
| The Jersey Devil | Layla Halfhill |
| The Knowledge | Conor Kyle |
| The Lake | Brian La Belle |
| The Last Blockbuster | Justin Miller and Jeremiah Castleman |
| The Last Doctor | Matteo Gomez |
| The Last Stephenson | Gordon Kalton Williams and Katherine D Stewart |
| The Link | JR Martinez and Pablo Magana |
| The Louise | Grace Karman Graham |
| The Mallard | Jaime Chapin |
| The Minefield | Quinn Redeker and Jason Skorski |
| The Mirage (Al Sarab) | Ali Ahmed |
| The Mural | Carolyn Bradley |
| The Murder Show | Shane Spiegel |
| The Naked Man List | Morgan Pepper |
| The Navajo and The Astronaut | Jane Therese |
| The Night Within | Mark Lammerding |
| The Other Guy | Josh Schaffer |
| The Other Side | Nonie Shiverick |
| The Othered | Minh Anh Vo Dinh |
| The Outpost | Erez Mossek |
| The Pigment Keeper | Michael DeGrandpre |
| The Plutocrats | Alison Lani |
| The Podcast | Jeffrey Craine |
| The Potato Palace | John Lawton |
| The Purpose of a Lighthouse | Gabe Berry |
| The Regent | Priscila Santa Rosa |
| The Return | Will Kuether |
| The River Between Us | Sara Dahmen and Barbara Joosse |
| The Scythe | Terrance Thibodeaux |
| The Seedling | Kevin J. Howard |
| The Sequel | Daron Weiss |
| The Seventh Sister | J.B. Harrington |
| The Sexiest Man Alive | Nathan Patton and Beau Thorne |
| The Sherwood Forest | Christian Sinclair Wolf |
| The Sky Below | David L. Williams |
| The Spy’s Wife | Charles Carlisle |
| The Stress Hat – the beginning | Dr Rubina Mian and Omar Mian |
| The Sun, The Moon and Everything in Between | Michael Leoni |
| The Surveillance of Ordinary Things | Susan Brunig |
| The Swim Lesson | David Miranda Hardy |
| The Things I Cannot Change | Aaron Lomeli |
| The Trail | Kyle Griffin |
| The Unfinished Sonata | Ariane Hahusseau |
| The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
| The Valhalla Club | Jan Ohrstrom |
| The Valley Rose | Patrick Runi |
| The War Angels | Monica Arisman |
| The Well | Patrick Leonard and Max Golden |
| The Welshman | Andrew Irvine |
| The Winter Ghost | Rzwan Cabani |
| The Woman with No Name | David Weston |
| The Zit | Anthony Falvo |
| They Don’t Fall In Love… | Justin Geldzahler |
| This Is Me | Aslı Bildirici |
| This is Not Like Home | Julian Pham |
| Thor Lake | Miia Piironen and Michael Williams |
| Those We Leave Behind | Amanda Keener |
| Ties that Bind | Luca Violante |
| Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright | Thomas Thonson |
| Time Capsules | Jason Caridi |
| Time Piece | Stephen Inniss |
| Time Will Tell | Nti Aning |
| Tingle Monsters | Alexandra Serio |
| Tiny Cancer: A Tale of the Tumersons | Jeffrey Barton |
| Tivoli Gardens | K. Diakite and C. Darby |
| To Mars | Yaroslav Altunin |
| Tough Old Broad | Denise Deegan |
| Tramps Like Us | Scott Vogel |
| Trapped in Plain Sight | Tammy Klembith and George Klembith |
| Trokita | Bernardo Duran |
| Trouble Will Find Me | Colin Moore |
| Turnpike Jackknife | B.C. Bell |
| Twisting Thunder | Michael Hahn |
| Two Birds One Gun | Ambrosine Davies |
| Two Holland Park Rd | Andrea Johnson |
| Two Wolves | Matthew Hopper |
| Uncut | Neer Shelter |
| Under a Desperate Sky | Jeffrey Kerr |
| Unicorn | Sheila Erdmann |
| Universal Frequency | Richard Krzemien |
| Unlikeable | Colin O’Brien |
| Unlocking Freedom’s Door | Kenneth Fox |
| Vampiric | Kelly Parks |
| Vivaldi’s Revenge | David Gray |
| Waitress #2 | Nathan Patton |
| Walt | Robert Troccolo |
| War-torn | Morgan Hage |
| Wartime Revelations | Carlo Bordone |
| We Are Each Other’s | Morgan Lariah |
| We Are One | Giulia Flores |
| We Flew When The Birds Walked | Daniel Leventhal |
| We The Children | Taya Walter |
| Weight | Caleb John Cushing |
| Wes | Suemedha Sood |
| What the Night Leaves Behind | Rob Sheely |
| Wheelchair | Andrew McLinden |
| Wheels Come Off | Kryzz Gautier |
| When Horror Met Sally… | Ervin Anderson |
| When Wendy Grew Up | Jenna St. John |
| While We Wait | Joshua Hunt |
| White Christmas | Richard Kevin Stith |
| White Gold | Rex Cheung |
| Wide Open Spaces | R.L. Hooker |
| Wide Open Spaces | Niki Ang |
| Wishing Well | Gary Bickal |
| Woodstake | Shawn Hainsworth |
| Worm in the Bird’s Mouth | Ian Baaske |
| Wustrow | Arnaud Cugniere and Etienne Moulin |
| You & I | Nilendra Fonseka |
| You Better Run | Gareth Wronski |
| Yuanfen | Briana London and Lynn Mills |
| Yves | Laura Piety |
| Zivia | Anokh Dhillon |
| Zombie Boiz | Stevie Yun |
Make sure to check back for further announcements! Full details about the competition can be found here.
(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Second Round, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)
