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Please note: These are the entries for the Pitch Wars season beginning in 2021 and continuing through 2022. Please note that our Agent Showcase ends at 9:00 p.m. ET on Monday, February 14, 2022. Agents will not be able to leave comments requesting material after that time.

PW2021 YA #31: THESE VICIOUS ROADS (Horror)

THE RIVER HAS TEETH x Sapphic Midwestern Gothic

Arden will brave anything to find her best friend, Octavia, who vanished weeks ago. When local police give up the search, Arden steals her dad's car to look for Octavia herself. But the Midwestern highways hide dangerous secrets, and soon Arden learns that Octavia is being hunted by a cult—and something much more sinister. And finding Octavia may mean putting herself directly in its crosshairs.

PW2021 YA #32: A CURSE BETWEEN US (Contemporary Fantasy)

WINTERWOOD x PRACTICAL MAGIC

17-year-old Wren Guthrie takes every precaution to protect her best friend from her family's devastating curse. But when she manifests powers that freeze a man to death, Wren must untangle her family's past and control her magic to save her loved ones from threats both magical and mundane.

PW2021 YA #33: IT’S IN HIS CARDS (LGBTQ RomCom)

PROJECT RUNWAY meets WHAT IF IT’S US in this queer, friends-to-lovers rom-com. When wannabe designer Milton’s idol returns to host a fashion show competition, he’ll do anything to win. But with ambition leading him toward reckless decisions, he’ll have to decide which matters most: winning or his heart.

PW2021 YA #34: BE-MORE: A BALTIMORE STORY (Contemporary – Black #OwnVoices)

After DEON’S mother dies in an accident, he looks for help in the one place she taught him to avoid: gangs. Family bills are paid with dirty money. But it leads to an even higher debt. Deon’s payment: participate in a bank robbery. With a gun in his hand, Deon must decide if it’s too late to do the right thing and Be More, even if it may cost his life.

PW2021 YA #35: CURIOUS TIDES (Fantasy – Dark Academia)

Emory believes her secret drowned with her classmates—until their bodies start washing ashore, threatening to unveil her twisted magic and its role in their deaths. With the help of reclusive student Baz, Emory must seek the truth behind the drownings before her powers—and the secret society they draw to her—consume her next.

NINTH HOUSE meets THE STARLESS SEA in this lush, dark world where secrets, stories, and those lost to the tide never remain lost for long.

PW2021 YA #36: DIVINE RUIN (Romantic Fantasy)

Beautiful, dangerous socialite Antonia plans to carve out her heart in exchange for Aphrodite's help finding true love. The goddess is pleased with her sacrifice, and Antonia is soon engaged to a prince. But then she falls in love with the wrong person—the prince’s guard—and risks Aphrodite's wrath.

ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART meets YA CIRCE

PW2021 YA #37: SUMMER AT CECE’S (#OwnVoices Sapphic Rom-Com)

When 16-year-old Marie's dad sends her to live with her Guy Fieri-obsessed aunt for the summer, her recipe for keeping to herself goes up in flames — just like everything she's baked since her twin brother's death. The last thing she expects is to fall for Riv.

Riv's trust issues could fuel an album's worth of songs. As her grandpa's health declines and the medical bills grow, her focus should be on beating her ex-BFF in the county fair talent show for the prize money. But Marie is a welcome distraction.

As Marie and Riv bond over music and baked goods, they'll both have to decide if love is worth the risk.

GILMORE GIRLS meets SECOND CHANCE SUMMER, but gay.

PW2021 YA #38: PANIC ATTACKS FOR GOD (LGBTQ Historical)

It’s 2005 in Portland and seventeen-year-old Sarah Flanders, a loyal Christian servant of Jehovah God, finds herself questioning faith, sexuality, and gender in the wake of her blossoming closeness with a genderweird actor. As her religious family and friends question Sarah’s association with such a “worldly” individual, Sarah realizes she must choose between the only community she’s ever known and the only love that’s ever felt real. HERETICS ANONYMOUS meets ORPHEUS GIRL.

PW2021 YA #39: HASHTAG WITNESS (Contemporary/Based on a True Story)

As a small-town preacher’s kid, Mindy suffocates under the weight of intrusive church members' constant judgments—which only escalates after she’s subpoenaed as a defense witness for a neighbor accused of killing teenage girls. 

Sucked into the vortex of his high-profile trial, Mindy is targeted by viral hashtags, bullies, and swarming media. She retreats into the safety of her dreamy new boyfriend, fantasizing about a full-life reboot with him after graduation. But with her eyes pinned on the killer she knows, Mindy isn’t ready for the beautiful betrayer lurking at her back.

BURN BABY BURN x THE SERPENT KING

PW2021 YA #40: LAMPLIGHT AND LIARS (Fantasy: LGBTQ+)

VICIOUS meets DANGEROUS REMEDY

Ilari can see the ‘invisible’ monsters that emerge from fresh corpses—though admitting it would earn him a trip to the gallows. To escape the law (and the deadly creatures), he’s hunting for a cure. But when an unexplainable disappearance devastates his close-knit crew, Ilari’s boyfriend is accused of murder. Wading through lies, Ilari must make his choice—help his crew kill the boy he loves or fight beside him, feeding their world to the monsters.