ELA Literary Magazine

✍️ As we kickstart our second issue, Sultry, Monstrous, Untamed Tales, we spotlight a heartstopping story that shows romance and love gone wrong. ✒️📚

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#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!

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💙 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?

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#WritingCommunity #BookSky

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

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

Thanks for sharing! 💜

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

We can't wait to see what you come up with for this issue! 💜

♥️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

💚 Writing Prompt 💚

We love a bit of irony in our stories. AND some oceanic mythology. ✒️📚

Have you read ‘The Selkie and The Man’ from our recent issue?

#Selkie #LiteraryMagazine #Mythology #litmag #Bookish #WritingCommunity #BookSky #FantasyWriters #ShortStories

💚 Writing Tip 💚

Writing is first and foremost for you. You should gain as much from writing as your readers do from reading. ✒️📚

#WritingTip #LiteraryMagazine #Bookish #WritingCommunity #bookstagram

🦔 Aggi’s Adventure by Marissa Coles 🦔

Marissa’s is a fun and unique story of magical worlds and adorable creatures ✒️📚

Read it in Twisted Kingdom, ELA's first issue: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela

#WritingCommunity #Folklore #TwistedKingdom #ShortFiction #LiteraryMag #BookSky

Inspired by the incredible authors of Twisted Kingdom, we have a creative reimagining of Merlin the Magician from our Editor-in-Chief. ✒️📚

Read it here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/emmas-wips/t...

#BookSky #LiteraryMagazine #WritingCommunity #ShortFiction #Fantasy #Bookish #Merlin

👑 Twisted Kingdom 👑

✒️📚 Read it for FREE here: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #literarymagazine #shortstories #Fantasy #Mythology

Another Prompt Spotlight, taking the spirit of our magazine to heart and giving us an entirely different perspective on one of our weekly writing prompts! 📚✒️

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#WritingCommunity #writingprompt #writingchallenges #horror #shortstory

🔥 The Walker and the Dying Light 🔥

Have you read this frightening story by Amber Holt yet? Find it in our latest issue! ✒️📚

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#twistedkingdom #literarymagazine #shortfiction #horror #writingcommunity

It's hard to love books we're forced to study in school. I came across this one before I had to study it at uni, so it remained a fav! -Emma

💜 Book Review 💜

The real tragedy for Catherine is not that she made the wrong decision (between Heathcliff and Edgar), but that no right choice exists for an untamed woman in a patriarchal world.

#bookreview #wutheringheights #emilybronte #gothic #romance #literaryfiction

💜TWISTED KINGDOM, OUT NOW 💜

We are forever grateful to each and every one of you! Enjoy!

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🦔🧜‍♂️ The land around the Twisted Kingdom is inhabited by all manner of mysteries 🧜‍♂️ 🦔

From the shadows of the forest to the depths of the ocean, magical wonders await from our final three authors ✒️📚

#TwistedKingdom #ukmythology #literarymagazine #shortfiction #folklorefiction #writingcommunity

👑✨ The homes within the Twisted Kingdom are full of mysterious creatures 👑✨

Folkloric charm is closer to home than one may think.

Day 3 of revealing our Twisted Kingdom authors. Who will rediscover our magic? ✒️📚

#writingcommunity #ukmythology #literarymagazine #shortfiction #folklorefiction

👑✨ The lands of the Twisted Kingdom are noble and magical 👑✨

Day 2 of our author reveal. The following three voices channel the Arthurian Tales, putting new twists and spins on this classic piece of UK mythology. ✒️📚

#ukmythology #literarymagazine #shortfiction #writingcommunity #arthurianlegend

❤️ Writing Tip ❤️

Try writing from an unusual perspective or the POV of a character you would usually despise.

It's good to write about what you know, but it can also be great to venture into the unfamiliar! 📚✒️

#writingcommunity #writingtips #litmag #bookish #writersofblueky #writers

So sorry for your loss 💜

👑✨ The Twisted Kingdom gates are opening... 👑✨

Meet the first three voices bringing UK mythology back from the shadows.

Day 1 of revealing our Twisted Kingdom contributors. Who will haunt these pages? Look below to find out ➡️

#TwistedKingdom #ukmythology #literarymagazine #shortfiction

Honourable mention from the talented Dylan Nicholson: "Uncle Forks."

Two school friends venture into a condemned house at the edge of their estate. If the legend knocking around the estate are true, they might not be alone...

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#writingcommunity

This would be so helpful 🤣