Read Amelia’s story here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/amelias-wips... If you want to have your story featured on our website, keep an eye on our submissions page, or submit a story to our Writing Prompt Spotlight series under ‘Our Community’! #WritingCommunity #Writers #BookSky #Fiction

We offer four different services, which you can read about on our website here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/ela-edit We are so grateful to everyone who has supported us and our magazine, and we are excited for this next chapter! #WritingCommunity #BookSky #NeedAnEditor #Writers #Writing

Combining a little bit of Twisted Kingdoms with a dash of inspiration from Sultry, Monstrous, Untamed Tales, Stephen R. Hunt brings a more modern take to the Selkie myth in Check Stephen’s piece: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/prompt-spotl... #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity #BookSky

✨ Writing Tip ✨ Romance is a very saturated and talent-filled genre, and it’s very easy to get caught up in tropes and goals. But your story is unique and interesting because it is your story. Don’t overthink it too hard. 💜 🩷 💚 #writingtips #romance #wip #writingcommunity #writingthoughts

New year, same reading tastes? Something I’m bringing into 2026 is my love of mermaid literature, which is why Nicholas’ story is a great place to start your January reading off! Read Twisted Kingdom here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela #WritingCommunity #Writers #BookSky #Fiction

Introducing ELA Edit: professional editing services for manuscripts that are more than they seem. ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/ela-edit Let's make your weird wonderful. ✨✒️📚💙✍️❤️🌶️❤️🔥📚 #FictionEditing #ManuscriptEditing #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Thank you so, so much to everyone who has submitted! We were so hopeful that our second issue would receive the same love and enthusiasm as our first! Happy New Year, everyone! #WritingCommunity #BookSky #RomanceWriters #SMUT #SubmissionsClosed

🍾HAPPY NEW YEAR🍾 Pepper is unfortunately very tired after responding to all of your submissions, but he hopes you all have an amazing New Year. Enjoy your celebrations, and Pepper can live vicariously! ✒️📚💙 #LitMag #Cat #ShortFiction #HappyNewYear

Fancy writing us an example? We regularly publish our favourite writing-prompt shorts. Send them in! ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/prompt-spotl... #WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortStory #writingprompts #shortfiction

LAST CALL for romance submissions! The window closes at midnight tonight. ❤️🌶️❤️🔥❤️📚✒️📚✍️💙 Details here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #RomanceWriters #SMUT #CallForSubmissions #SubmissionsOpen #ShortStories #Writers #WritersLift

💛 Writing Tip 💛 There are SO MANY overused tropes in the romance genre, and we’re TIRED of them! What are some tropes that you’re sick of seeing, and what tropes do you want more of?? ❤️🌶️❤️🔥✒️📚💙✍️ #BookSky #literarymagazine #shortfiction #writingcommunity #romance #SMUT #RomanceWriter #WritingCall

There is only ONE DAY LEFT to submit to our second issue! Got a love story that needs to be told, or a tragedy that needs an audience? We want it all! ❤️🌶️❤️🔥✒️📚✍️💙 ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 #WritingCommunity #ShortFiction #OpenCalls #callforsubmissions #Romance #romancewriter

Rose’s story is a wonderful spotlight to end the year on! Read Morgan Le Fay in the Green Room for an engaging and inventive twist on the Arthurian Legend! ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela ❤️🌶️❤️🔥✒️📚❤️📚✍️ #WritingCommunity #BookSky #RomanceWriters #ShortStory #ArthurianLegand

We want all the twisted romance and the weird flings and the awkward first dates! Send us a story, and end 2025 with a bang! ❤️🌶️✒️📚❤️🔥📚✍️ Details here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #RomanceWriters #ShortStory #Writers #SMUT #Tropes

❤️‍🔥 There are just three days left to submit a story to our second issue!! Got a horror-romance that needs a home? Got an enemies-to-lovers epic romance? We wanna read it!! ❤️‍🔥 Details here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 ✍️❤️🌶️✒️📚❤️📚 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #RomanceWriters #Romance

✍️ Submissions are OPEN for only 4 more days! Feeling directionless between Christmas and New Year? Write a short romance story and send it our way ❤️🌶️✒️📚❤️ Details here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #RomanceWriters #SMUT #ShortStory #Writers

Submissions close in 5 days!!!!! Details here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 #WritingCommunity #BookSkt #RomanceWriters #ShortStories #SMUT #Submissions 📚🌶️📚✒️❤️🔥✍️

✍️ Happy Holidays from the ELA team!! Thank you so much to our wonderful followers, writers, and new literary friends! ❤️📚 #literarymagazine #christmas #celebration #WritingCommunity #BookSky

✍️ I LOVE when genres overlap. Romance and crime fic are a particular favourite, though we haven’t seen much of these in our recent submissions. Care to change that? 😜 #literarymagazine #openforsubmissions #callforsubmissions #romance #crimefiction #BookSky #WritingCommunity

✍️ While we all have our favourite book boyfriends, the reasons we love them are often complicated. Though many of them seem perfect, they’re also flawed, grumpy, harsh. We love them for their flaws ✒️📚 What is your MMC like? ❤️📚 #Romance #MMC #LiteraryMagazine #WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortStory

✍️ Love is often complicated and harsh; love involves hardship, sacrifice, and resentment. George Park’s story gives us that, and so much more, telling the story of marriage and struggle. ❤️📚 ✒️📚 ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela #CallForSubmissions #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Romance

❄️ A Mother’s Christmas Carol ❄️ ✍️ Emma’s new story is really in the holiday spirit, though it is just as dark and thoughtful as her other pieces! ✒️📚 ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/emmas-wips/a... #LiteraryMagazine #ShortFiction #ChristmasCarol #WritersCommunity #DarkFiction #BookSky

✍️ Writing Prompt ✒️📚 There’s been a surprising lack of enemies-to-lovers in our recent submissions. Care to change that? 😉 #WritingPrompts #SubmissionsOpen #Romance #SmuttyReads #LiteraryMagazine #RomanceWriters #WritingCommunity #BookSky

📚❤️ Writing Tip ✒️📚 ✍️ Writing is not an easy or simple activity, but it is an important one. Writing is as rewarding as it is challenging. #WritingCommunity #WritingTips #TipsForAuthors #CallForSubmissions #BookSky #RomanceWriters #Romance #SMUT

📚❤️ No romance is more intriguing than the love between a lost and wandering man and the beautiful woman he can’t stop thinking about ✒️📚 ✍️ ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela #WritingCommunity #BookSky #CallForSubmissions #RomanceWriters #ShortStoryWriter #SMUT

✍️ Our Designer Amelia has been working on a new fantasy-dystopia short! ✒️📚 You can read this story on our website, under Amelia’s Corner! #WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortFiction #Writers #CallsforSubmissions #Dystopia

Just under three weeks left in our Call for Submissions!! The full details are on on website, link in bio! 📚✒️🖋️ 💜♥️💚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity #CallforSubmissions #ShortFiction #OpenCall #RomanceWriters

✍️ Writing Prompt 📚❤️ While I enjoy a classic love story, I also enjoy seeing how relationships decay over time. Give me a story with a miserable married couple, and I’ll eat it up! ✒️📚 #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Romance #Sitcom #MarriedLife #ShortStory #Writers #BookSky

Is this a love story? Submissions for Sultry, Monstrous, Untamed Tales (S.M.U.T.) are open until December 31st! #callsforsubmissions #WritingCommunity #romance #smut #darkromance #literarymagazine #submissionsopen #literaryfiction #shortfiction

📚❤️ The more you understand your characters, the closer you get to them, the more comfortable you will be in writing them in a variety of situations! 📚🌶 ✍️ Still open to smutty submissions: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 ✒️📚 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Romance #SMUT #SexScene

📚❤️ Love is in the air at ELA headquarters. We are in search of love, yearning, and desperation. Karla Gamero Gomez gives us all of that in The True Love of Sir Gwayne, which is available to read on our website! ✒️📚 ✍️ Read it here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela #WritingCommunity

📚❤️ A classic love story, or an impractical pairing? 📚🌶️ ✍️ #WritingPrompt #BeautyandtheBeast #TwistedRomance #Classic #LoveStory #WritingCommunity #BookSky #RomanceWriters

🔥❤️ Writing a good romance hero can be tough, so it’s important to look inwards. What do you find sexy? What qualities do you look for? Have you ever met the perfect person in real life, and would you really be attracted to them if you did? 📚❤️ #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Romance #ShortStory #Writer

✍️ Calling all fiction writers! We are OPEN for submissions. We have had some incredible stories sent in so far. We would love to see what YOU can come up with for the current theme ✒️📚❤️🔥 Details: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #FictionWriters #Romance

❤️🔥 Scorned lovers, tragic loss, and twisted revenge; W. J. Arthur’s story has it all! Such a heartfelt and wretched story, and exactly what we’re looking for here at ELA! ✒️📚❤️ ✍️ Read it here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela #WritingCommunity #BookSky #RomanceWriters #Mythology

✍️ The final of our own Twisted Kingdom stories, Painting of Red Lilies, follows Allie through a shroud of grief and mystery, as a strange force seems to pour forth from her paintings ✒️📚 ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/amelias-wips... #WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortStory #Writers

Did you know that, if you send us a story inspired by one of our prompts, your story could be featured on our website? ✒️📚❤️ ✍️ Get to writing! We love receiving stories, whether our submissions are open or not! (Which they totally are right now 😉) #WritingCommunity #ShortStory #Writers #BookSky

✍️ The submission window is OPEN at ELA Literary Magazine ✒️📚 Check out our website for details: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 We can't wait to see what you come up with! ❤️🔥❤️🌶️ #WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortStory #Writer #Romance #litfic #SubmissionsOpen #litmag

✍️ Anyone noticed a romantic vibe to our writing prompts lately? 👀 ✒️📚 🔥❤️ 🌶️❤️ #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazine #OpenForSubmissions #RomanceWriter #litfic #BookSky #Romance #ShortStory #FlashFiction

💜 Writing Tip 💜 ✍️ Do you struggle with endings? Do they come naturally to you? ✒️📚 #ELA #LiteraryMagazine #Endings #WritingCommunity #WritingThoughts #Bookish #HappyEndings #BookSky #RomanceWriters #DarkRomance #ShortStory #NovelWriter

✍️ As we kickstart our second issue, Sultry, Monstrous, Untamed Tales, we spotlight a heartstopping story that shows romance and love gone wrong. ✒️📚 Read it here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Writer #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory #Romance 🔥❤️

The answer? NOTHING ✒️📚 🔥❤️ ❤️🌶️ #Bookish #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazine #Love #Reader #BookSky #Writers

The Black Dog is a piece of UK mythos with many iterations and legends; our Social Media Manager has reimagined the canine creature in a heartwarming tale. ✒️📚 Read it here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/laurens-wips... #TwistedKingdom #WritingCommunity #ShortStory #BookSky #Mythos

Submissions are rolling in, and we could not be more excited. We've had some incredible entries so far ❤️🔥 Submissions window is OPEN until December 31st ✒️📚 For details: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509 🌶️📚 #WritingCommunity #RomanceWriters #Spice #DarkRomance #Writers #ShortStory

🩷 Book Review 🩷 There is a certain component of the plot that felt wholly unnecessary – iykyk - it doesn’t distract too much from the lovely relationship between Will and Lou. 📚✒️ #bookish #bookreview #romance #lovestory #BookSky

💚Writing Prompt 💚 We spotlight one Writing Prompt inspired story on our website every month. We love receiving your stories inspired by our posts! Read past spotlights here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/prompt-spotl... #WritingCommunity #BookSky #LiteraryMagazine #ShortStories

💙 Nuckelavee by C. Gauld 💙 A haunting reimagining of Orcadian myth, centring on the sea demon known as the Nuckelavee; one of the twelve wonderful stories from our Twisted Kingdom issue. ✒️📚 Have you read Nuckelavee yet? ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela #WritingCommunity #BookSky

New publisher listing for: ELA Literary Magazine @elalitmag.bsky.social (Fiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

With the opening of our second round of Submissions, we thought we'd post a little blog about our experience of starting the magazine, launching our first mag, and the planning of our second issue! Link is in our bio! #blogpost #literarymagazine #BookSky #WritingCommunity

♥️SUBMISSIONS OPEN♥️ We are opening up our Call for Submissions for our next issue! 🖋️✒️📚 This issue is all about reinventing the romance genre, taking ideas around love and sex and hatred to a whole new dimension. #BookSky #WritingCommunity