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Elio Dray

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Writes after midnight. Plot with claws. Spice with soul. No face, just fiction. Winner of Elegant Literature’s “Charmed & Chained” magazine issue.

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Thrilled to be included in the "Women of the Weird West" anthology coming from @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social and edited by @kcgrifant.bsky.social!

Weird West is such a fun genre, looking forward to reading everyone's stories!

11.02.2026 17:46 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Thank you! Grace!

09.02.2026 15:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
$3000 Winner Elio Dray: Elegant Literature Award For New Writers (Charmed & Chained)
$3000 Winner Elio Dray: Elegant Literature Award For New Writers (Charmed & Chained) YouTube video by Elegant Literature

The awesome @eliodray.bsky.social in his interview after winning Elegant Literature!

Learn how his winning story had its origins in erotica. :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgF-...

09.02.2026 15:38 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Yes! Absolutely. I’ll always support indie authors, it truly is a community effort!

And I’m debuting my smut novel this month!

09.02.2026 12:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

#indieauthor

The fatigue to write the book, promote the book, and publish the book, is a fucking level on its own. Good job to all of us, we’re our own publishing company.

08.02.2026 17:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Update on the first book in my debut series Heart Beat:

-I’m at 22,522 words of my 40,000 goal.
-Release date in February
-Book covers being commissioned.

So grateful for all the opportunities given to me after EL. The community never stops coming through.

Merry Christmas!

26.12.2025 04:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did my author interview with @elegantliterature.bsky.social and I can say that Creag is definitely one of the best humans I have ever met.

09.12.2025 18:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Pink Vibrations is making its way through the smut community. Super honored and very reassuring that my writing is okay for smut. I have faith in my Flesh Fiction submission now. Not in the competition but for the smut community 🤓

05.12.2025 04:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for the kind words. I’m still in shock that I won. I’m so pleased to see some love on it because it was a prequel origin story! The ending was intentionally up for interpretation but the mold needed to get to that Apartment for the original story to take place. I was just expanding lore! 😂

05.12.2025 04:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just finished reading it! You did an amazing job spinning tension and unfolding events simultaneously—I loved it! I also found the ending oddly hopeful and refreshing where I might have expected horror.

05.12.2025 00:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Writing Battle — Write. Read. Win. Write. Read. Win. A competitive writing platform for storytellers around the world. Receive oodles of feedback. Join the most supportive writing community on the web. You up for the chal...

Honored to have again won Writing Battle, this time with a flash-length Dystopia, "Disassembly." Interview and published story linked below.

writingbattle.com/past-winners...

03.12.2025 14:18 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

You are a master storyteller. Thank you for sharing your work with us, always. What an absolute killer of a story. You deserve every award.

04.12.2025 17:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
The Cold Burns by Anne Wilkins Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

The Cold Burns by Anne Wilkins clarkesworldmagazine.com/wilkins_12_25/
Big, big news!!! It's here! My sci-fi story, "The Cold Burns" is out in Clarkesworld. This is a dream come true for me.
I hope you enjoy reading it!☺️

@clarkesworldmagazine.com

02.12.2025 05:10 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 2

Thank you! I’m still floating!

04.12.2025 17:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Magazine Amazing stories by upcoming talent. No query letters. Guaranteed acceptance/rejection timeline. Above-professional pay.

So excited to have my story "Infinite Wisdom" published in the pages of this month's @elegantliterature.bsky.social, titled "Charmed and Chained." Check it out along with LOTS of great stories this month, here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/

02.12.2025 02:03 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 1
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Still can’t accept that I was declared winner for @elegantliterature.bsky.social “Charmed & Chained” issue.

Thank you Creag and judges for seeing something in my story. I baked a cake for the occasion, and may or may not have shared with my neighbors.

Read here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/

03.12.2025 03:30 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0