manuscript writing challenge winners
Thank you to everyone who participated in this challenge, and congratulations to everyone who placed!
We received almost 700 submissions, and had the best time diving into your works in progress.
Everyone who submitted will be receiving feedback, regardless of whether or not the submission placed.
Below, you will be able to see the Author Feature for each of the winners, as well as read their submission if they chose to have it published, which will include the first 5 pages of their manuscript.
And now for the winners!
Drumroll please . . .
first PLACE
two men dead by Megan Lange
Mirna is aging out of her apprenticeship to Lenox the bookbinder when she arrives at their shop to find him dead. Tasked with handling his affairs she seeks out a dead collector to remove the body and encounters a strange client in desperate need of her master's services.
Trigger Warnings: Death (mild), descriptions of decomposition (mild-severe), mentions of alcohol (mild), vomit (mild)
second PLACE
this velvet darkness by Claire Coffey
Esme, a professional Spiritualist, performs an occult reading for a private group. She's sensitive to energies left behind by the dead, and shares what she senses from items provided to her by her audience.
Trigger Warnings: Mentions of death (very mild)
third PLACE
pastel death by April may jay
A 16-year-old necromancer grieves the death of her grandmother and tries to communicate with her reanimated skeleton.
Trigger Warnings: Gore - mild
fourth place
nowhen: in breathless suspension by C. L. Kamm
Alex Kane is a pilot in WWII flying over the Pacific theater when he encounters a strange anomaly that strikes fear into him and reminds him of something from his past.
