Authors in our 34th issue hail from the Netherlands, New Zealand, France, UK, USA, and Canada. Honorable Mentions hail from The Philippines, France, Malaysia, Korea, Australia, UK, USA, and Canada. The future is international.

Like pirates? Can you write 500 - 2000 words in the next 36 hours? Submit to our Paradise Plundered issue! Guest judged by @caitlinmarceau.bsky.social@hedonebooks.bsky.social We pay 10cents/word for selected stories, and will be giving a $3000 award.

And the $3k award winner of Mundane Magic has been chosen! A big thank you to guest judge Hannah Yang for making the final call. Stay tuned for the magazine to drop on Sep 1st to learn the results. And here's a sneaky piece of the cover. Full cover revealed soon!

The opening line from The Book Club, by Emma Carrion Moschen. Read it free in Elegant Literature #033: Secret Societies.

Still 5 days left to submit your story!

One more shameless plug for absolutely no reason at all…. My horror story, “Atomograd” is free to read in issue #021 of @elegantliterature.bsky.social You know. In case you wanted to read it and then tell other people to read it and then put it on ballots for things. Or something 😬

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Amazing stories by upcoming talent. No query letters. Guaranteed acceptance/rejection timeline. Above-professional pay.

Enjoying a great talk today by AC Wise @acwise.bsky.social@elegantliterature.bsky.social

Check out Take Away the Tears, out in reprint today in MetaStellar (originally in @elegantliterature.bsky.socialwww.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

Take Away The Tears - MetaStellar

Conscripted Lieutenant Lovemore Vulgaris has been instructed to design the people of the future, and he's not messing around.

The Moonlit Mysteries issue of @elegantliterature.bsky.socialwww.elegantliterature.com/magazine/

Woo! Congratulations and good luck!