Launch Pad Prose Competition |
2024
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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Winners
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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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Winner
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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Mentorship Selections
Mentorship Selection
Manuscript
· Drama
· 303 Pages
A work of literary fiction (85,000 words), A GLIMPSE AT THE ECLIPSE is told through nine, interlocking stories, each one illuminates a journey from darkness to light and is part of an ongoing discourse about art and imagination as a catalyst for change. These stories interweave two separate love stories, a remarkable tale of survival, and the triump...
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Chicago, IL
Inside every human and every (great) story is a soul. Susan's work illuminates the power, beauty, and resilience of the soul as it confronts challenges and strives to change the world for the better. Over the past decades as a writer and professor at various universities, Susan has championed the Female Myth paradigm, which emphasizes collaborat...
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Blood Quantum
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Mentorship Selection
Manuscript
· Drama
· 274 Pages
In dire straits, Cheyenne searches for her long-lost father, linked to the Cherokee elite. Her quest reveals more than just tribal lineage or benefits - it leads to an Indigenous future set in a parallel world. Triumph? A new dawn awaits. Falter, and she’s forever trapped.
Jersey City, New Jersey
I am a technology consultant by day and a writer by night.
Mentorship Selection
Short Story
· Horror
· 11 Pages
A coming of age story about a professional lab rat and owner of an immortal cell line used for biomedical research (like Henrietta Lacks, but with equity) and how it consumes the planet.
Los Angeles, CA
Allison Mick is a comedy writer turned horror-comedy writer from the Great Lakes. Allison's writing elevates genre storytelling through an intersectional lens, while retaining what makes genre fun. She draws from her upbringing and personal experiences to address super serious topics like mixed-race identity and gender, as well as fun stuff like fo...
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Mentorship Selection
Manuscript
· Horror
· 430 Pages
There’s a storm brewing to wake the dead.
When a mechanical engineer uncovers the mythical legacy of her seafaring women ancestors, she must choose: surrender to the sea’s siren call or fight to save her life before the past claims it forever.
Stafford Springs, CT
Maria Ostrowski is an award-winning writer of atmospheric fiction.
In 2023, her manuscript, The Bones of Hope, won two Killer Nashville Claymore Awards. In 2019, her manuscript, Yet From Those Flames No Light, was a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award. Her creative nonfiction and poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines and ant...
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Top 10
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Top 10
Short Story
· Sci-fi
· 35 Pages
In the near future, where people can create virtual spaces to interact with potential dates, Molly meets the love of her life.
Then she discovers this new world's dark secret.
Los Angeles, CA
Saleh Karaman is a writer, actor and performer. In the past year, he has been a Quarterfinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship, and Semifinalist for the Disney Writing Fellowship, the Sundance Film Development Fund, and the Emerging Screenwriters Competition. He most recently won ScreenCraft's Short Story Prize.
His prose has been published in Alfred H...
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Top 10
Short Story
· Horror
· 22 Pages
A lonely, aging racist attempting to renovate her plantation house comes against the ghosts of the past.
Los Angeles, CA
Aaron left West Texas to study creative fiction and screenwriting in Austin. After completing internships at horror production companies, he now spends his time in LA as a freelance photographer.
Top 10
Manuscript
· Horror
· 64 Pages
In an effort to escape a perilous debt, a man stumbles upon a forgotten town’s unsettling secret, entwining his survival with a lonely girl whose desire for a meaningful friendship forms the only barrier against a colony of ancient revenants — and her own lust for blood.
Los Angeles, California
Troy Widner’s favorite pastimes include dancing without any rhythm whatsoever, adding a liberal amount of salt to meals, melding disparate genres, and mixing character-driven drama with pulp sensibilities. He has worked with StonePark Productions to consult on their development slate, as well as write their second feature, the crime thriller “Deor.”...
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Top 10
Manuscript
· Sci-fi
· 429 Pages
A crew of lunar miners fight for survival after a failed science experiment causes the Earth to disappear, leaving them stranded on the Moon.
Los Angeles, California
Daniel Parra is a Latino sci-fi writer with a passion for telling stories of worlds beyond our own. He has worked on VFX Production for multiple sci-fi TV shows such as Westworld, Star Trek: Picard, Paper Girls, and Love, Death + Robots, along with contributing lore writing to the sci-fi / fantasy game series Destiny.
When he's not writing stories ...
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Painting Lessons
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Manuscript
· Drama
· 400 Pages
Cherry Nelson, a religion-defiant seventeen-year-old, and Tom Huxley, the shining church boy, challenge their opposing beliefs as their unlikely friendship turns into something more, causing their conservative small-town community and life as they know it to crumble in consequence.
No bio available.
Pitchforks
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Top 10
Short Story
· Thriller
· 15 Pages
A soft-spoken church organist’s quiet suburban life is shattered on November 6th, 1988, when he reads an article in the Sunday paper about an emerging technology capable of solving old crimes. Something called “DNA.”
No bio available.
Top 10
Manuscript
· Fantasy
· 476 Pages
When enemies from the north break into the palace to kill the princess, her maid is forced to switch places with her and die in her place. But the northern king has other plans...
Yorba Linda, CA
Ashley wrote her first story when she was 11 years old and hasn't been able to stop since. She received her BA in Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University, where she was nominated for an Industry Award for Best Undergrad Pilot for COUNTERFEIT. She has gone on to win and place in several competitions, including ScreenCraft and LaunchPad, and her ...
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Top 50
Top 50
Manuscript
· Fantasy
· 400 Pages
A college dropout who discovers a dark secret about one of America's most powerful tech billionaire CEOs must embark on a dangerous journey, putting herself in the care of a human smuggler, his servant, and an AI with its own agenda. Making it home again will require courage, creativity -- and strength she didn't know she possessed.
The Bronx, NY
Ester Bloom is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, recaps, business news, and more. Joyland Magazine called her "your favorite savagely funny and insightful author." Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, Vulture, and the Toast, among other venues. Currently, she is the Deputy Manager Editor of CNBC Make It. Sh...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Comedy
· 98 Pages
A gambling-addicted math professor loses his job and finds work driving escorts. As he tries to kick his addiction and get his old life back, his unique skillset sends him deeper into the world of sex work.
Winnipeg, CA
Daria is the author of the novels The Prairie Bridesmaid (Screencraft Top 5) and A Practical Guide To Escorting (Launchpad Top 50). Daria finds the humanity and occasionally humour in traumedies that feature strong female protagonists and explore subjects such as intimate partner violence and prostitution. She lives in Canada where she’s been known...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Horror
· 52 Pages
Beautiful Creatures meets Ghost Hunters and Fixer Upper when a teen’s former reality star parents unwittingly buy a decrepit mansion that haunts her dreams and is home to horrible accidents, mysterious secrets, and long-dead soldiers. Desperate to stop the house from destroying her family, she risks everything to uncover and destroy its evil.
Seabrook, TX
Susan earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University and writes YA, MG novels, screenplays, and adult holiday romcoms.
Her work has been recognized by several prestigious competitions, with scripts shortlisted by the Austin Film Festival and Screencraft’s Family-Friendly Screenplay Competition. Her unpublished novel Betwixt won firs...
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Top 50
Short Story
· Comedy
· 13 Pages
A wunderkind scientist has a nervous breakdown in the lab. After mandated time off, he books a trip to Scotland where he sees the Loch Ness Monster and begins to doubt his sanity.
Los Angeles, CA
Saoirse most recently worked as a writers' assistant and script coordinator on Bad Robot and HBO's Demimonde. When she’s not working on her own dramedy screenplays about Irish generational trauma, she enjoys writing comedy short fiction involving monsters, ghosts, and the occasional pirate.
Top 50
Short Story
· Thriller
· 27 Pages
When a Border Patrol Agent is set free after killing an undocumented man, the dead man's mother seeks revenge and inadvertently uncovers a human trafficking ring in her apartment building.
Pasadena, CA
Aaron Philip Clark is an author and creative writing instructor at UCLA. He holds a BFA in Screenwriting and an MFA in Fiction. His novel, UNDER COLOR OF LAW, won the 2021 Book Pipeline Adaptation Contest. His novel, The Accomplice, a crime thriller written with Cutis '50 Cent' Jackson, will be published on Sept. 3, 2024.
Top 50
Short Story
· Sci-fi
· 12 Pages
After planting the first human footprints on Mars, two astronauts face a deadly ethical dilemma as they struggle to repair a damaged landing craft that stranded them on the planet’s surface.
Keswick, VA
Fred Shackelford is a Virginia attorney and the author of two books. His début novel The Ticket won honorable mention for the Eric Hoffer Award and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards and the Clue Award from Chanticleer Book Reviews.
Top 50
Short Story
· Horror
· 26 Pages
A black mental patient is lured to an underground slave museum where his soundness of mind eventually reaches a breaking point.
PA
Tiyan's journey into professional writing started after watching The Shawshank Redemption. After seeing the power of film to inspire change, he began teaching himself the art of screenwriting. He writes horror and drama that speak to the black experience while focusing on diversity and mental health.
Top 50
Manuscript
· Drama
· 167 Pages
In 1965, an 11-year-old girl struggling with grief and loneliness finds unexpected friendship that brings both joy and danger to her racially divided Alabama home.
Cottage Grove, OR
Olivia’s writing journey began when the voices in her head became impossible to ignore, demanding their stories be told. She thrives on creating narratives about strong women—young and old— who defy the odds, reclaim their power, and refuse to be silenced. Olivia is eager to be part of the industry that brings these empowering tales to life.
Top 50
Short Story
· Drama
· 8 Pages
An aging mother is visited by a mysterious bird before a major life event.
Arcadia, California
Jung Park is a Korean American writer, SAG-AFTRA actress, and comic who also co-owns a speech and debate academy in Pasadena, California. For over 12 years, Jung has coached kids from under-represented groups in speech and helped them win numerous trophies in speech and debate. Her personal experiences--such as being in the only Korean family in a...
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GOATSUCKER
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Fantasy
· 99 Pages
A priest struggling to maintain his faith in an isolated mountain village plagued by wolves discovers there is more than one road to absolution.
Berryville, VA
Professional nerd who never learned how to like things casually. My favorite things in this world are birds and ghosts.
Top 50
Manuscript
· Sci-fi
· 350 Pages
Earth, 2050. When an unexpected tragedy causes scientist Quinn Buyers to lose everything, she embarks on a quest for answers that takes her across the globe. Along the way, she discovers friends and finds love in the most unexpected places. This is science fiction at its best, grounded in actual science and soaring in imagination, it envisages the b...
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Sydney, Nsw, AU
Sarah Lahey is a designer, educator, and award-winning author. She is a senior lecturer teaching design, technology, and creative thinking classes in Sydney, Australia. Her Heartless series of sci-fi novels have won the Chanticleer Book Awards, the American Fiction Awards, the Independent Publishers Award (IPPY), and the Indie Reader Discovery Award...
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I Knew You Then
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Drama
· 230 Pages
Sixteen-year-old Casey struggles with a worsening eating disorder and the secrets threatening her closest relationships over the course of her junior year of high school.
Brooklyn, NY
No bio available.
Top 50
Manuscript
· Western
· 134 Pages
In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, millionaires and billionaires flock to god's country to get away from the city and play cowboy, regardless of the cost to the land and the locals. But when rich tourists begin to take too much, they must face the natural consequences of their greed and entitlement on stolen land.
Philadelphia, PA
Nanny by day, writer whenever possible. Projects for big and small screen, prose, and essays. Comedy, drama, everything in between. Young millennial with a feminist voice coping with it all through dark humor.
Top 50
Manuscript
· Comedy
· 227 Pages
Collin, a struggling television writer, and Orla, a disillusioned community college professor, broke up 16 years ago but must confront their past decisions when Orla's sixteen-year-old nephew knocks up Collin's sixteen-year-old niece forcing their families to come together.
Los Angeles, CA
Kevin P. Regan is a writer and former development executive from Scranton, Pennsylvania. There he was forced to spend his summers picking up dead bodies for his uncle’s funeral home. He only lost one cadaver’s leg and that was mostly the hospital’s fault. After attending law school and slumming it in the US Senate he preferred working with the corps...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Thriller
· 307 Pages
Shhhh... In this house, the walls have ears.
Love Lost on Cloud 9 is a thrilling tale of domestic suspense set in the summer of 1978. Sharon and Kip Walsh are newlyweds, excited to start their life together in their new home - even if it is next door to the abandoned Cloud 9 Family Fun Center. But as they settle in, Sharon begins to uncover secre...
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Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas local, East Coast native, fueled by sunshine and Diet Coke. Author and artist by day, pop-culture junkie by night. Living life one page at a time. 🌞🥤✍️
Top 50
Short Story
· Sci-fi
· 9 Pages
A surgeon in the Mars Army fights to save the life of an enemy alien aboard a hospital space frigate.
Los Angeles, CA
Arjan is a ghostwriter. He writes books and articles for CEOs, experts, and entrepreneurs. He graduated from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts with a degree in Film and TV Critical Studies. After school, he worked at Arad Productions making anime, manga, and video game adaptations. Now, when he isn't ghostwriting, he's working on his own projects—novel...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Horror
· 275 Pages
A lonely boy discovers a nighttime world where he can stay up as late as he wants, uninhibited by the pressures and expectations of the day--and also the terrifying creatures hiding in the silent darkness.
Washington, DC
Harrison Demchick is a developmental editor who has worked on more than eighty published books. As an author, he’s written literary horror novel The Listeners (Bancroft Press, 2012) and short stories including “Magicland” (Phantom Drift, 2019), "Tailgating" (Tales to Terrify, 2020), “The Yesterday House” (Aurealis, 2020), "Sophie Anne" (Nightscript,...
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Top 50
Short Story
· Horror
· 66 Pages
Recounting the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, "October Seven" interweaves the known horrific details of Poe's death on October 7, 1849, with his historical exhumation more than 25 years later. This project includes many facts about Poe's death, as well as fictional horror sequences surrounding his exhumation.
Vagabond, CA
Steven emphasizes non-graphic horror and sci-fi with a literary bent. He also writes novels, sitcoms pilots, and specs. His novel—TOMORROW'S FLIGHT, a thriller written with M.E. Ellington—was a #1 Amazon bestseller in May, 2022. Recently, he adapted OCTOBER SEVEN, a short novel about Edgar Allan Poe's death and exhumation, as a feature. The short no...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Thriller
· 364 Pages
Three old friends reunite to solve the murder of a companion from high school and unravel the sordid secrets of their quaint New England hometown.
Joshua's the recovering product of a right-wing fundamentalist upbringing and tries to stay optimistic about things despite himself. He dotes on his pit bull and wouldn't have it any other way. He's unafraid of ghosts, saw a UFO once, and is waiting for Bigfoot to complete the hat trick. He indulges in coffee, cardigans, and the occasional tarot rea...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Thriller
· 304 Pages
A globe-trotting YouTube cruising duo embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, but when one of them mysteriously vanishes, their idyllic journey takes a dark and chilling turn in this gripping psychological thriller.
Rachel McGuire is the pen name of Rachel Graham and LeeAnn McGuire Whitlock. Rachel has worked as a firefighter, paramedic, researcher and consultant. She lives in San Diego, California with her family. LeeAnn is a former lawyer and entrepreneur. She and her family split their time between homes in Arkansas and BC. ON THE SURFACE, their debut thril...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Drama
· 381 Pages
Orphan Ky thought the DNA test would help him find his family's resting place, not his twin, who's supposed to be dead. They all are.
Ky wasn't orphaned to his life of pain. He was abandoned.
Santa Rosa, CA
Jo Morgan Sloan is an award-winning novelist in Northern California. Their debut novel through Midnight Meadows Publishing will be released in December 2024, with a second unrelated project coming in July 2025. When not actively writing other projects, Jo is a parent, a working doctor of audiology, an accomplished musical and visual artist, and a ce...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Drama
· 212 Pages
Tom, an 18-year-old writer, and his shy best friend pose as newlyweds to stay at a major Las Vegas resort, not knowing his friend deep down wants to be a woman. Set in the innocence of 1977, a friendly hooker helps them navigate the perilous transgender territory they find themselves in. Tom has much to overcome to accept his friend's change and wha...
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Sherman Oaks, CA
As a USAF veteran, former hooker/addict, journalist, a hiker and a transwoman, Christine eats adversity for breakfast. She earned top honors in film school, produced films and TV shows and won top prize for her SciFi-Action adaptation of Virtual Light. Her student drama VALERIE screened at a Hollywood festival. She just finished her second novel a...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Thriller
· 406 Pages
Deep in Raqqa, at the heart of ISIS-controlled Syria, a Western intelligence operative is running out of time. Their cover is slipping—but that’s not the worst of it. Because the only thing ISIS fears more than a spy… is a woman.
Rome, IT
A.M. Khalifa grew up in a diplomatic corps family and has lived and worked in more than 15 countries. Exposed from a young age to the machinations of international relations and the corridors of power, he writes spellbinding international thrillers that breach cultural taboos and provoke dialogue on sensitive issues like counterintelligence, religio...
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The Angelmakers of Nagyrév
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Short Story
· Historical
· 20 Pages
A dark crime fiction short story about one of Europe’s most notorious mass murderers.
Los Angeles, CA
Liz is a screenwriter based in Los Angeles. She is currently finishing up her MFA in screenwriting at the UC Riverside Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program and expects to graduate in June 2024. Always a bit of a rolling stone, Liz spent her early years exploring an eclectic variety of jobs ranging from park ranger to cannabis trimmer to autopsy ass...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Comedy
· 266 Pages
When Zapporah's talented cat Rookie is catnapped, she must clear her name in a murder investigation and outsmart a killer to rescue Rookie before time runs out.
No bio available.
Top 50
Manuscript
· Fantasy
· 191 Pages
The mysterious Ferryman paddles 12-year-old Ellie onto the Great Flow, a mystical waterway that connects all living things throughout the universe, taking her to a distant planet where she is tasked to solve a strange mystery.
Puerto Vallarta, MX
BRENT HARTINGER has had three screenplays (and three novels) optioned for film, with two features produced. He's won the Lambda and GLAAD Awards, and was nominated for an Edgar. His screenplays have won or placed in the PAGE Awards, Script Pipeline, Launch Pad, Final Draft Big Break, StoryPros, and Scriptapalooza.
The Gazer and The Initiate
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Top 50
Short Story
· Fantasy
· 9 Pages
In a mysterious temple, an adherent meets a new disciple and prepares her for a new life and the death of the old one.
Los Angeles, CA
As a child, Saul used every (un)available inch of home to tell genre-blending adventure stories with his toys. As an adult, he does the exact same, but opted to save space by writing instead. Saul honed his narrative chops interning at production companies and studying at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He currently works as an associate producer ...
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Top 50
Manuscript
· Historical
· 366 Pages
When a German archeologist meets a famed Holy relic hunter during WWII, he embarks on a quest behind enemy lines to find a long-lost treasure but uncovers the shocking truth behind the beginnings of Christianity.
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
Dan worked in TV for over thirty years and he has always gravitated toward creative outlets. An award-winning songwriter, Dan is also a twice published novelist (“The Judas Apocalypse” & “Can’t Buy Me Love”).
A natural storyteller, Dan will regale anyone who will listen to his tales of his days in broadcasting, his script ideas and how lousy th...
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The Meat They Feed On
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Short Story
· Other
· 12 Pages
A sleep-deprived mother falls deep into an alien conspiracy theory, making a decision that will change not only her life, but the lives of her children.
Alexandria, Virginia
Stephanie Early Green's writing appears or is forthcoming in Narrative, The Chicago Tribune, New Ohio Review, The Cincinnati Review, Water~Stone Review, Southeast Review, Juked, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2021 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing (judged by Charlotte Watson Sherman) and her work was Highly Commended for the 2021 B...
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The Rag Princess
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Manuscript
· Fantasy
· 219 Pages
Sent to a gloomy orphanage where children turn into dolls by night, a timid girl must face a realm of toy tyrants and sinister secrets as she struggles to bring peace to the land, all while trapped in the body of a lowly ragdoll.
Ellie Jay
No bio available.
The Snow Globe Queen
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Top 50
Short Story
· Other
· 24 Pages
Recuperating from a near-death illness at her husband’s boyhood home, an idealistic woman discovers her mother-in-law’s healing hospitality has a dark side.
Bethesda, MD
John is a retired litigator and teacher.
Top 50
Short Story
· Sci-fi
· 45 Pages
Outlaw brothers escape on horseback into a brutal desert. Time plays by different rules here as they chase their doppelgangers over an unsettling, repeating landscape.
New York, NY
Taylor is a writer of novels, short stories, and screenplays. His short story, "Cabin at Forever's Edge", was published as a finalist and honorable mention in the Saturday Evening Post. He has placed in dozens of competitions, and his novel, "Blackland County" was a top 5 finalist in Roadmap's Write Start Manuscript competition. He is seeking repre...
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Top 100
< PYGMALION >
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Top 100
Short Story
· Sci-fi
· 28 Pages
An enamored medicine resident thinks he found the one, but when she mysteriously disappears following a high profile death at their hospital, it calls everything into question.
New York, New York
Faith’s recently published YA sci-fi novel, SERPENTINA, ranked in the top 5 on Amazon’s bestseller list in the category of free eBooks in Mythology for the first five days after publication. She currently practices psychiatry in NYC and her medical background as well as studies in art history and theater inform her writing. Her short story, “Pygmal...
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A SEEPING WOUND
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Top 100
Manuscript
· Historical
· 397 Pages
Logline: Imprisoned since childhood at Henry Riggs’ notorious turpentine camp in the trackless wilderness of northern Florida, Martha LongFoot has to decide whether to give up a tenuous reprieve from beatings, rape and depredation to engineer an escape for a recently imprisoned couple with whom she has no cultural bond or sympathy.
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Austin, Texas
For credits, publications, awards and a highly-sanitized bio, see darrylwimberley.com
Top 100
Manuscript
· Drama
· 311 Pages
The Drakes are a dynastic hot mess of movie stars: some living in a world of generational wealth and trauma, some exiled to mental institutions, boarding schools, and graveyards, some still recovering from a lifetimes of lie surrounding a real and falsified adoption paper trail that eventually leads to the African American matriarch they never knew ...
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Venice, CA
Just a typical novelist, in West Philadelphia born and raised, who started out as an English Lit major with stinging wit, waiting tables to pay for food, a roof, and tuition. Switched majors and went to film school to learn how to write movies. Along the road she became a stand-up comic, a natural evolution since her storytelling thrives on using ex...
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Top 100
Short Story
· Drama
· 35 Pages
A pair of teenage brothers must come to terms with helping their mother end her own life when her body becomes so ravaged with cancer, it's too painful to go on living. And there's that other thing... Where the world beyond their isolated mountain cabin has become a dystopian wasteland after a global pandemic destroyed civilization as we know it.
Pasadena, CA
No bio available.
Top 100
Short Story
· Comedy
· 9 Pages
Two animal control specialists show up to an ordinary job that turns upside-down when they are accused of kidnapping the client's child.
Columbus, Ohio
Jen Knox is an award-winning storyteller and university lecturer living in Ohio. Her writing is equal parts gritty and magical.