
Launch Pad Prose Competition
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Launch Pad Prose Competition
2017
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Active Since 2016
The Launch Pad Prose Competition has led to more than a dozen books published, projects set up at AppleTV, Showtime, and with companies that include Scott Free, Michael De Luca Productions, Platform One Media, and Laura Dern’s Jaywalker Pictures.
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Last year, our inaugural Launch Pad Manuscript Competition opened new doors so that writers could expand their portfolios, publish their work, cross over into Hollywood, and launch their careers. Our 2016 winners on both the Launch Pad and Inkshares sides are currently hard at work with Inkshares in the production of their novels, all of which are due to be released soon. The first of many, Scott Thomas’s Kill Creek, is actually set to release in two weeks, on Halloween! This couldn’t be a more exciting time for us, to watch our dream of having a manuscript competition grow from its inception and expand into an even more successful second year.
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2024 Winners on Coverfly
Top 4%
Manuscript
· Comedy
· 257 Pages
When Catherine Thatcher’s brother dies and leaves her a boat in Key West, the 55 year-old thinks this is the answer to her financial woes after a messy divorce and putting their mother in a facility for dementia. But the boat is actually a dilapidated trawler and a handsome buddy of her brother’s is living on-board and refuses to leave. Key West is ...
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Simi Valley, CA
Not many writers go into the business because a telephone pole fell on their big toe. When that weird college injury left me on crutches, the only elective class still open that I could get to was Creative Writing. Life has a funny way of setting you on the right path. After publishing award-winning books with Harper Collins and Random House, my mom...
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Top 2%
Short Story
· Drama
· 20 Pages
When a cynical half-Mexican teen girl with a closely guarded secret meets Rubberman, the bitter headliner of a county fair freak show, sparks and... yes, secrets explode.
Allentown, PA
Born in Morocco, Ruth Knafo Setton is a multi-genre author whose award-winning fiction, creative nonfiction, and screenplays have been widely published. She is the author of the novels, THE ROAD TO FEZ, and the forthcoming ZIGZAG GIRL, which won the Grand Prize in the 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. Her story, "Swamp Girl," won the 202...
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