Congratulations to the Second Rounders from this year’s competition! Our Top 100 Finalists will be announced on February 4th.
| Writer(s) | Title |
| Alan Larson | A Blind Eye |
| Sophie Neville | A Girl Called Redemption |
| Susan Hahn | A Glimpse at the Eclipse |
| Josh Taylor | A Most Peculiar Stakeout |
| Lisa Renee Jones | A Perfect Lie |
| Kirsten Boswell | A Secret of Red and Ruin |
| Anton Emarv | After the Country’s Gone, Part III |
| Gray Winsler | After the Fall |
| Beth Ford | After the Spirits Come |
| Jay Gilbertson | All of Me |
| Saul Rubin | Animalia |
| Amanda ReCupido | Anna |
| Don Gibson | Anori |
| Joe Cooke | Art of the Kill |
| Elizabeth Crowens | Babs and Basil, and the Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles |
| Sam Ritter | Balance |
| Cara Highsmith | Be Careful What You Wish For series |
| Phyllis Hollenbeck | Beyond Beauty |
| Lawrence Allan Pontius | Big Fat F@!K Up |
| Conrad Walters | Black Snowman |
| Gabriel Giroto | BO in: The Chalk of Weird Majir |
| Monique La Terra | Brothers of Dawn |
| Nicole & Mike Comforto | Buzzworthy |
| Patsy Stagner | Cal Thought He Might Be a Replicant |
| Kermit Lopez | Cibolero |
| Bill Garwin | City of Schemes |
| Lindy Hudis | City Of Toys |
| Dave Clair | Clouds Clearing |
| James Ross | Coldwater Revenge |
| Vanessa Gray | Condolences and Casseroles |
| Lisa Schlegel | Coyote Dad Gets Hacked |
| Loren Cooper | CrossTown |
| Susan Bavaria | Cuddling the Cactus |
| David Lesser | Danny’s Awesome Toy |
| Kirsten Boswell | Darkness Shines |
| Kevin Engelking | Don’t Shoot The Piano Player |
| Alicia Yang | Duck Roast on the 38th Parallel |
| Teigan Isobel | Emma & The Gobbling Bandits |
| Catherine Boyd | Erased |
| Ashley Wylie | Everything You Want is in One Location (EYWOL) |
| Colton Green | Extra Innings |
| George Ducker | Fakers |
| Marc Warren | Far From The Tree |
| Kim Kolarich | Far Rockaway |
| Adam McCulloch | Flood Money |
| Twist Phelan | Footprints in Water – a short story |
| Faisal Ansari | Frog Town – The Raj of Echo Park |
| Tina Tazekand | Full Disclosure |
| Jeremiah Murphy | Gary |
| MH Handleman | Ghost Dick |
| William Waxman | Gllu Boy and the Seven Abominations |
| Cheryl Suma | Gods Playground |
| Morgan Hatch | Gone To Ground |
| Samuel Finn | Heartbeat |
| Raquel Levitt | Hell Slowly Creeps |
| David Snyder | Hero of the Day |
| Jon Lindstrom | Hollywood Ending |
| C. D. ‘Pete’ Peterson | Home Front |
| Carol Lazare | How Bad Will Clea Get? |
| James Cusick | How to Steal a Hominid |
| Gary Dyck | Huldufolk: The Hidden Ones |
| Nicole Carter | I Was the Moon |
| Bobby Miller | I Wish Kevin Was A Bag Of Sand |
| Celia Rettenmaier | I’ll Miss You Yesterday |
| Pamela Danforth Yaco | Immortal Alchemy |
| Kathleen Holmes | In the Shadow of Koenig’s Sphere |
| Lisa Renee Jones | Inside Out |
| Matthew Meagher | Irish Town |
| Gary Blackwood | Iron and Steel |
| Annie Wood | Just a Girl in the Whirl |
| Jennifer Milne | Kitty Doolittle: Stay at Home P.I. |
| Harris Kauffman | Landlocked Sushi in the Dead Camel Mountains |
| Jan Marlyn Reesman | Larceny In My Soul – Life of a Playboy Bunny |
| Rick Miners | Life After Death |
| Larry Hendricks | Marble Birds |
| Unnamed | Marlowe |
| Catherine Keane | Meet Jack |
| Melissa Mitchell | Memento Mori: Paris 1971 |
| Alan Larson | Mexizona (An American Dream) |
| T.Jay O’Brien | Michelangelo, Leonardo & Gus |
| Matt Healy | Middleberg |
| Dahlia Dennison | Midnight Lilies in Velvita |
| Juan Villegas | Miss Fortune |
| Bonnie Ilyse Tunick | Miss Minnie’s Boarding House |
| Eddie Brescia | Missing Sara |
| Alex Morton | Mythos |
| Stephanie Bousley | Nepali for ‘Duct Tape’ |
| Mike Waterston | Night Shift |
| Michael Galat | Not Funny At All |
| Brian del Rio | NothingGold.Exe |
| Allen Blackwell | Number 14 |
| Ronald McGuire | Oculus 12 |
| Wislon Macduff | Odyssey |
| Tanya Klein | Of Pumpers and Bathers |
| Luba Schuyler | One Girl Ran |
| Rob Sheely | Open Sorcery |
| Debbie Schrack | Over the Fence |
| Joan Meyerson | Paris F*cked Me |
| Dana Dillon | Patriot Day |
| Azenath Adede | Payment Made |
| Jessica Wood | Pig |
| James Boanerges | Policeman’s Handbook |
| Michael Schwartz | Project Wild |
| Alessio Ricciuti | Recollection |
| Joshua Scicluna | Red Hot |
| Thomas Thonson | Rescue Bot |
| M.D. Waters | Rise – Valley of the Dolls |
| Katie Antonsson | San Camilio |
| Kyle Kallman | School Shooter’s Guide to Making Friends |
| Aaron Brock Dehn | Scurry Back |
| Sarai Koo | Seoul Food |
| Akanisi Radu | Seven Years Traveling Alone |
| Mara Adamitz Scrupe | Shard or Drift or Husk |
| Noah Pohl | Shasta Girl |
| Dean Serravalle | She’s Alive Again |
| Andrew Phillips | Shoes |
| Kevin O’Hare | Shut-Eye |
| Azenath Adede | Sisters |
| Allison Hong Merrill | Six Sage Society |
| K.C. Nayfield | Some of My Best Patients Were Animals |
| Jonathan Doyle | Someone so Happy |
| Larry Solidarity | Space Hurricane |
| Jarrett Early | Station |
| Robert C. Frink | Stela |
| Kariamu Cross | Susceptible Mercenary |
| Sallie Bingham | Taken by Indians |
| John Broadhead | Talking Man |
| Robert OMalley | Terraforming |
| Aimée Kwan | The After and The Before |
| Edward Kilbourn | The Bert Initiation |
| Ally Iseman | The Bird Who Was Afraid to Fly |
| Drew Ross | The Chair in the Garden |
| Todd Sorrell | The Christmas Witch Chronicles: Malakhim Wars |
| Mosby Barley | The Cop Killer of Tade County |
| Aidan Chesemore | The Eclipse and the Boy |
| Aaron Sprecher | The Elevator Up To Hell |
| Strul Fieldgrass | The Entanglement |
| Juan Villegas | The Evolutionary Dreams of Gregoria Vega |
| Jasmeen Siddiqui | The First After |
| David Vienna | The Freek Of Leesville |
| Adam Sleper | The Giant of Illinois |
| Smiley Thakur | The Healer’s Touch |
| Stuart Hardy | The Hidden Country |
| Kay Smith-Blum | The House on Desco Drive |
| Brian Kagan | The Island Way |
| Simon Paniora | The Lady Palace |
| Tali Alexander | The Last Boyar |
| Tanya Klein | The Last Historian |
| Carolina Caro | The Lies My Immigrant Parents Told Me |
| Kelly Pierce | The Lies of Love |
| Unnamed | The Little Death |
| Cory Motycki | The Long Sprint Home |
| Michael Kramer | The Mad Queen and Lavender Farm |
| Sophie Neville | The Man Who Got Out of Japan |
| Richard Geiwitz | The Man Who Struck Out Joe DiMaggio |
| Paula Conner | The Moon Is Broken |
| Eric Vasallo | The Mysterious Disappearance of Colby Blue |
| Bill Walker | The Normandy Club |
| Chrysler Szarlan | The Other One |
| Lorraine Brown | The Paris Connection |
| Daria Salamon | The Prairie Bridesmaid |
| Aaron Brooks | The Red Light System |
| Andi Valdez | The Road Trip |
| Arthur Geis | The Rocket Scientist |
| Matthew Morde | The Royal Coroner |
| Hayden Roper | The Shattered Universe |
| Charles Sellner | The Storyteller |
| Katherine Hill Brown | The Summer Girl |
| Cody Pearce | The Swamp Rex |
| Janna Grace | The Talkers are Talking Book 1 |
| Moses Frenck | The True Story of The Richest Kid in School |
| Alianna Jaqua | The Walk |
| Noah Pohl | The Watcher |
| Charlene Clarke-Todoruk | The Wood in the Window |
| Becca Mann | The Wrongdoers |
| Allison Mick | These Woods |
| Graham Kirkham | They Used to Call Me Chaplin |
| Harrison Voss | This Banquet of Blood |
| Jesse Kendall | Thoughtless Atoms |
| April Sebree | Through the Woods |
| Drew Westcott | Time and Place |
| Barbara de la Cuesta | To Buena |
| Deborah Riley | Tuesday Afternoon/Wednesday Morning |
| A.J. Hamer | Tuscan Shadows |
| Kathy MacKay | Unacceptable Risk: A Memoir of Marriage and Tainted Blood |
| Mary-Denise Tabar | Uncontrolled Detonations |
| Noah Pohl | Undertow |
| Marie Arsenault | Vancouver Skies |
| Benjamin Gleisser | Viewer Discretion Is Advised |
| Jen Knox | We Arrive Uninvited |
| Joshua Rodgers | We Rest In The Dark |
| Celia Rettenmaier | When I Grow Up I Want To Be a No One |
| Robert Herold | Witch Ever Way You Go |
| Leslie Durr | Women’s Studies |
| Thomas Thonson | Wrestling Demons |
| Kaitlin Pradhan | Yasmina and the Fairyland Fete |
| David Lesser | Zack Cressid is Invisible! |
| Melvin Sterne | Zara |
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 prize, 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)
