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Growth & Marketing Lead (Flexible Role)

Help Us Grow One of the Most Unique Writing Platforms on the Internet

Elegant Literature is looking for someone to help us grow.

This is not just about posting content or running socials.

We want someone who believes in our mission and is excited about audience growth, awareness, storytelling, internet culture, and building something meaningful over the long term.

This role is intentionally flexible.

You might be:

  • a hungry junior marketer looking for a place to prove yourself
  • a creator/operator who understands online communities
  • a growth-minded social media manager
  • a strategist who can both plan and execute
  • an experienced consultant looking for a meaningful project
  • someone who simply loves fiction, storytelling, and helping writers succeed


If you can deliver results, we’re open.

About Elegant Literature

Elegant Literature is a fiction magazine, award, and education platform built specifically for new writers.

We were the first short fiction magazine to pay professional rates while exclusively accepting submissions from unpublished and emerging authors.

So far we have:

  • Published 500+ stories
  • Paid over $250,000 to writers around the world
  • Built a growing educational platform and community
  • Helped hundreds of writers earn their first publication and first income from storytelling


We care deeply about storytelling, creativity, and helping talented people break into an increasingly difficult industry.…

April Challenge

Get Comfortable Recording Yourself

Some of us still have the romantic image of the cloistered writer tucked cozily away in their oaky study, a globe and antique bookends on their desk next to a personal library of leatherbound books.  They live in relative seclusion, all their focus dedicated to the words on the page and the click-clack of their typewriter.  It is a quiet life, but one suited to their quiet personality.

In today’s day and age of digital town squares and communities, writers cannot afford to be as secluded.  Their audiences, especially for indie and self-published authors (although not exclusively so) demand a certain degree of access and interaction.  With social media and podcasts becoming a more viable form of marketing and promotion, it is becoming increasingly essential to have a robust and active relationship with your readers.  This does not necessarily mean posting every single day like an influencer—although there are some advantages to this to be discussed in a future challenge—it does mean developing a certain confidence and savvy behind the mic and camera.

And we can be honest with ourselves: it’s awkward to listen to our own voice or watch a video of ourselves.  We hyper-focus on little idiosyncrasies, like saying ‘um’ too often, or touching our face constantly.  And…