Karen's blog: The Writer newsletters

With details of the 2021 Summer Flash competition and more, here are the latest newsletters:

Deadline: August 12, 2021

Showcase your ability to master the difficult craft of flash writing in our annual Summer Flash Contest. Write anything in under 1,000 words – nonfiction or fiction – for a chance to win the grand prize: $1,000 and publication in The Writer magazine.

Do you have what it takes? Enter today! Hurry, the contest will be over in a flash!

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We can provide detailed feedback with our add-on critique service regardless of where your submission places in our contest.

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EARLY DEADLINE ENDS JULY 30TH

With nearly a decade of experience in promoting up-and-coming writers and exciting projects, Launch Pad has firmly established itself as the premier hub for Hollywood to discover fresh voices, new ideas, and talented writers. We advocate for all of our Top 100 finalists, working with each of them to develop compelling bios and loglines, and sharing their work with targeted industry professionals. Advance your writing career and enter your project today!

Whether you have a ten page short story or a 1,000 page fantasy epic, we want to read it! For books, there's no need to have a completed manuscript. As long as you have sample pages accompanied by a thorough synopsis, you are welcome to enter! Our readers and judges will review up to 50 pages of every submission, as well as a synopsis for book submissions.

Our prestigious industry juries include managers, agents, producers and executives across top companies in film, television and publishing. For this year's Prose Competition, we're proud to welcome:

New Leaf Literary & Media: Dani Segelbaum | Literary Assistant
42 Management and Productions: Emily MacDonald | Agent
Sugar23: Katrina Escudero | Media Rights Manager
CAA: Mollie Glick | Book Agent
Grandview: Natalie Burkardt | Junior Manager
Paradigm: Phoebe Schmidt | Agent
The Lotts Agency: Sam Morgan | Agent
WME: Sara Laffer | Motion Picture Executive
Ladderbird Literary Agency: Stefanie Molina | Agent
Traction: Zak Kristofek | Partner

We also secure exclusive partnerships with management and production companies, as well as mentorship opportunities to offer guaranteed advancement for winning writers who are ready to make that leap from aspiring to working writer. No competition will do more to help all of their finalists take the next steps in their careers, and no competition has had as much success in helping writers break into the industry as Launch Pad. Our track record speaks for itself.

Enter now to join this tradition of Launch Pad success.

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A competition with guaranteed results.

Our industry partners are so confident in our ability to identify talented emerging writers that we are able to offer the following guarantees. The guaranteed signing partner and three mentor partners will each select a minimum of 1 project each from this year's competition entries to win their prize. To be eligible, entrants MUST select the "Guaranteed Signing" and/or "Mentorship" add-on at the time of entry. If you select any add-ons at the time of entry, regardless of where you place in the competition, you will still be in the running for those add-on guarantees.

Guaranteed Signing

John Beach of Gravity Squared Entertainment

Gravity Squared Entertainment is a Los Angeles based Management and Production Company with the ability to carry Film & Television projects from concept to completion. Gravity Squared currently manages writers, producers and directors for film & television, while also controlling media rights for well over 150 published books – many of those being Pulitzer Prize winners and New York Times Best Sellers.

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Launch Pad Mentorship Program

The best way to learn is by working with experienced writers who have already navigated that path to success. That is exactly what the Launch Pad exclusive mentorship opportunity is set up to do.

Britta Lundin
Britta Lundin is a TV writer and author who has written for shows such as the CW's RIVERDALE and HBO'S BETTY, and is the author of the young adult novels LIKE OTHER GIRLS (out August 2021) and SHIP IT.

Scott Thomas
Scott Thomas is the Stoker-nominated author of KILL CREEK, which reached the Top 10 of the 2016 Launch Pad Manuscript Competition and was selected by the American Library Association's reader committee as the top horror book of 2017. The book went on to be set up as a series at Showtime with Platform One Media and Scott Derrickson attached. His second novel, VIOLET, was named by Library Journal as one of the Best Books of 2019. Thomas is currently serving as showrunner for SyFy's upcoming series DAY OF THE DEAD.

Tommy Wallach
Tommy Wallach is the author of the Anchor & Sophia trilogy, Thanks for the Trouble, and the New York Times bestselling We All Looked Up, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, Wired, and other magazines, and he is a MacDowell Fellow. He recently sold a spec, DELILAH, to Sony's Screen Gems alongside writing partner Harrison Query.