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Thomas Kent West is an American writer of speculative fiction based in Minnesota. His writing has won the Rue Morgue Magazine “Artifacts of Horror” Contest, received the Black Hole Comics Short Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize, judged by New York Times bestseller Sequoia Nagamatsu. His short fiction is featured in several publications, including Maudlin House, Flash […]
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The Indispensable Lottie Hot by Mark Connelly will be published by Running Wild Press. Due for a 2026 release. Mark placed in the 2024 Unpublished competition with his literary novel Newman's Choice.
Unpublished finalist (Nonfiction) Kate Evans was introduced by Pipeline to agent Cindy Bullard of Birch Literary in 2023, who soon after signed her. Ditch Your Sh*t!: How to Declutter the Crap Out of Your Life and Home is slated for publication in October 2025 through Turner Books.
This one is best-expressed through a timeline ... A totally easy process spanning a breezy … nine years. From Laura: "The Pipeline team has been amazingly helpful since The Mother was a finalist in the Script Pipeline TV competition years ago. It's a story that has stayed close to my heart so I ended up […]