Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Launch Pad Prose Competition!

Listed below are the Winners of the 2022 Launch Pad Prose Competition. These exceptional projects were selected with the help of an impressive group of industry judges from companies that included Sugar23, CAA, WME, 42, Grandview, and more.

The competition recognized two Grand Prize Winners, three Launch Pad Mentorship Selections, and one Guaranteed Signing Selection with partner Gravity Squared Entertainment.

Grand Prize Winners

Winner – Best Book

THE PARIS CONNECTION by Lorraine Brown
Hannah and Si are in love and on the same track – that is, until their train divides on the way to a wedding. The next morning, Hannah wakes up in Paris and realises that her boyfriend (and her ticket) are 300 miles away in Amsterdam. Could one split second change her life forever?

Winner – Best Short Story

WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A NO ONE by Celia Rettenmaier
The Kairohan tribe passes down identities like family heirlooms: Every so often, Addie becomes Nerre and Nerre becomes Rawn and so forth in a way that’s as close to body swapping as possible without science fiction. So when an American anthropologist arrives, she’s forced to reconcile her own identity.

Mentorship Selections

Selected by Mentor – Tommy Wallach

MEET JACK by Catherine Keane
Kathleen can work exceptionally hard to find a mediocre relationship with a man or she can test the waters with a new option.

Selected by Mentor – Britta Lundin

THE WRONGDOERS by Becca Mann
It’s finally time for teenage twins, rule-following Charlotte and rebel Zandra, to leave behind their post-apocalyptic society known as Purgatory for a simulated paradise. But when the twins discover there may be more beyond the desert community they grew up in, they’re forced to choose between each other and eternity.

Selected by Mentor – Scott Thomas

THESE WOODS by Allison Mick
Logging is the most dangerous job in North America, especially in the Humboldt County redwoods where the trees fight back.

Guaranteed Signing Selection with Gravity Squared Entertainment

ART OF THE KILL by Joe Cooke
When a troubled teen ends up on the street, a covert agency kidnaps her and pits her against two other girls in a brutal game of survival with the last one standing taking her place as the agency’s next young assassin.

Full details about the competition can be found here.