$3000 Winner Anne Wilkins: Elegant Literature Award For New Writers (Bad Blood)

Описание: Elegant Literature is a short fiction magazine, award, and school exclusively for upcoming writers to start their career.

Anne Wilkins's story "The Golden Child" won the Bad Blood theme in May of 2025. Read her and hundreds of other great short stories for free:
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About Elegant Literature
Elegant Literature is the first short fiction magazine to pay professional rates but not accept submissions from pros. Our mission is to help new writers earn their first publishing credits—and their first dollar—from writing stories.

To date, we have published over 300 new authors across 43 issues, and put more than $200,000 into the hands of writers around the globe. It’s free to submit to the magazine, and we publish monthly.

Elegant Literature’s Award For New Writers provides $42,000 in monetary prizes each year. Every month one story is selected for the $3000 award. Together, the award and magazine serve to give the next generation of authors easier access to paid publishing opportunities and highlight some of the best emerging talent in the industry.

Elegant Literature is also much more than a magazine. We are a supportive community of new writers, and our education hub, AuthorHQ, provides a place where even those brand new to storytelling can learn and practice their craft. Each week an award-winning author or industry professional joins us in live, small group trainings to share their experience with the next generation of emerging talent. Over 50 hours of recorded lessons are available to members. With stand-alone workshops and multi-lesson courses, writers will learn the craft and business of storytelling directly from those who have come before.

The AuthorHQ provides accessible and affordable writing education, from the basics through advanced material, and the varied roster of educators allows students to gain a breadth and depth of knowledge traditional high-ticket courses often lack.

Education, community, and publication, all under one roof. It’s a one-stop shop to turn new writers into professional authors.

About Award-Winning Author Anne Wilkins
Anne Wilkins is a sleep-deprived New Zealand teacher who writes in her spare time (which she has very little of). Her short fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Utopia Magazine, Small Wonders, The Dark, Elegant Literature, Sci-Fi Shorts, All Worlds Wayfarer, Humour Me and more. She won the June 2024 Elegant Literature Prize, the 2023 Autumn Writers Battle, and the 2023 Cambridge Autumn Festival Short Story Competition, among others. Anne was a finalist for the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Literary Prize, the 2024 London Independent Story Prize (LISP), the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize, and placed third in the Hammond House 2024 International Literary Prize. Her love of writing is fuelled by copious amounts of coffee, reading and hope. Anne is supported in her writing journey by her ever-patient husband, two wonderful daughters, and two feline writing assistants.

About Judge Andy Peloquin
I am, first and foremost, a storyteller and an artist–words are my palette. Fantasy and science fiction are my genres of choice, and I love to explore the darker side of human nature through the filter of heroes, villains, and everything in between. I’m also a freelance writer, a book lover, and a guy who just loves to meet new people and spend hours talking about my fascination for the worlds I encounter in the pages of fantasy and sci-fi novels.

Other Authors In Bad Blood Issue:
C.J. Larsen, "The Book of Petty Curses"
Camsyn Clair, "Made of Ice"
Jonathan David Majors, "Tatau"
Rhayn J. Abner, "A Few Things I Found Out About You"
A.K. McCutcheon, "A House Fire on Woodside Road"
Alex Zak, "Flavian’s"
Maximilian P Siddell, "Blood and Death"
Kenna Duncan, "Warning Note Before a Parent-Teacher Conference"
Alex Atkins, "Rage Against the Sewing Machine"

For more information about Elegant Literature, the award, or fiction writing education content, check out:
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