$3000 Winner Nicoletta Giuseffi: Elegant Literature Award For New Writers (Hearts Ablaze)

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

Nicoletta Giuseffi's story "Across the Line" won the Hearts Ablaze theme in February of 2023. 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 Nicoletta Giuseffi
Nicoletta Giuseffi is a queer English language professor and princess under glass. Although she was born and currently resides in California, she left her heart in Hokkaido, where she taught in junior high schools. She is an advocate of decadence and cannot turn down a cake or a macaron. Although she is currently querying a fantasy novel, she loves writing horror stories. Her passions include animal photography, retro games and hardware (ask her about her home office), and the late 18th century.

About Editor/Judge Creag Munroe
Creag Munroe has swum with sharks and ridden motorcycles through monsoons, experiences that fuel his fascination with the world’s hidden stories. In 2021, he realized the fiction industry was becoming increasingly hyper-competitive, so built Elegant Literature, a magazine and award exclusively for new writers. Since then he has put over $200k into the hands of authors worldwide, judged the British Fantasy Awards, read more than 6000 short stories, and built the oh-so-dangerous deadlinedraft.com.

Creag is an avid reader who inhales books at an alarming rate, once packing 4 novels for a single flight, just to be safe. He writes about storytelling, personal growth, and building a creative career. Passionate about helping the next generation of writers, he’s committed to empowering them to get their stories out into the world—and be paid for it.

Other Authors In Hearts Ablaze Issue:
Corinne Harrison, "The Indalo"
Damian Brunner, "Call My Name"
Emma Burnett, "Only babies cry when they get hurt"
Michael Jefferson, "Becoming Adan and Eva"
Amalie Wad, "Masquerade"
Kasey Fisher, "Nora the Sociopath, Does a Nice Thing"
Nikki Little, "The Color of Disorder"
Ava Sedgwick, "The Sculptor"
Andrea Spencer, "Deep Within the Emergent Weeds"

For more information about Elegant Literature, the award, or fiction writing education content, check out:
https://www.elegantliterature.com/