The People of Elegant Literature
Creag Munroe
Founder, Editor
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, and read more than 6000 short stories.
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.
Inyuwo Ukatang
Assistant To The Editor
Inyuwo is Nigerian, and a lover of music and books of all kinds. He is a lifelong student of growth and learning. He finds clarity and energy in nature, and you’ll most often find him at the beach, where he captures his thoughts as aphorisms that shift with his mood.
He believes in taking the road less travelled — that’s where the most interesting stories and impact begin.
Jaime Gill
Preliminary Judge
Jaime Gill is a British-born writer living in Cambodia. A former music and travel journalist writing for the BBC and Guardian, he now works across Asia as a communications consultant and volunteer for local and international non-profits. He reads, runs, writes, boxes and socialises at gunpoint.
Fifty of his stories have been published in titles including Trampset, Elegant Literature, New Flash Fiction Review, Orca, Blue Earth, Litro, Phoebe Journal, Exposition Review, Sky Island, and more. In 2024, Jaime won a Bridport Prize, the Honeybee Literature Prize for Short Story, the Henshaw Prize and more. He was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. In 2025 he has won the New Millennium Writers Prize, Subnivean Prose Award, f(r)iction flash contest and more. He has also been a finalist for several competitions including the Bath Short Story Award and the Masters Review.
He’s currently working on a novel, screenplay and far, far too many short stories. Read more at www.jaimegill.com or at Bluesky / Twitter / Instagram.
Anne Wilkins
Preliminary Judge
Julia Jane Wilkins
Preliminary Judge
Julia is a writer and actor from New Zealand (and yes, the daughter of Anne Wilkins—the writing gene passes down!), who also loves to dance and sew in her spare time. Chosen by the two feline writing assistants as the best-thrower-of-toy-mice in the household, she often finds herself tossing toys for them to chase.
She was the winner of Elegant Literature’s ‘Sinister Sanctuaries’ competition, and the 2022 Barfoot and Thompson Young Author’s Challenge for the High School Category. You can find her work in the ‘Mundane Magic’, ‘Fearsome Folklore’, and ‘Loud Music and Dark Places’ Elegant Literature issues, ToiToi journal, and the WriteOn magazine.
Charlie Rogers
Preliminary Judge
Charlie Rogers (he/him) is a gay writer, former photographer and aspiring hermit who lives in New York City, writing the same story over and over, ignoring birds and their portents. He is originally from Beacon, NY, and studied literature at Cornell University for some reason. He’s worked as a web designer (not that you’d guess from this site), music producer and a bunch of other regrettable stuff.
Charlie is the winner of the August 2025 Elegant Literature Award.
Caro Robson
Preliminary Judge
Caro Robson is a writer from Gauteng, South Africa. Her stories and poems have been published in Elegant Literature and elsewhere. Her work was recently featured on the One More Short Story podcast.
Caro is a passionate reader and has been on the reading team at Flash Fiction Online since 2024. She is currently exploring ideas for a novel… and still entering way too many contests.
Nathan Mehlhorn (JonSpencerReviews)
Community Moderator
Nathan Mehlhorn has been writing for years. He enjoys many genres and has studied storytelling across multiple mediums in order to bring a unique perspective to his writing. Having created several successful games and other creative works, he wanted to try his hand at publishing fiction professionally. No matter what, he hopes that you enjoy the stories he’s crafted and that it might inspire you to try your hand at writing one day as well!
Former Friends (staff)
Ryan Cipriani
Communications & Education Coordinator
Ryan Cipriani is the independent author behind the fantasy humor saga “The Mythical, Mystical, Magnificent Adventures of Krög: the Battle Prince.” Apart from Krög’s saga, Ryan has written a number of horror and sci-fi stories, and was a lead writer on the ill-fated online pulp fiction magazine ’The Lemonade Stand Massacre.’ He volunteers for ‘EveryLibrary’ to protect libraries and books from bans in the U.S. and is an ardent supporter of libraries as a community space where all are welcome.
Megan Becker
Community Manager
Hey there! I’m Megan.
I’m a wife, mom, coffee drinker (okay, okay, I like espresso and flavoring in my steamed milk), book lover, and now, finally, AUTHOR.
Growing up, I wanted to be the tooth fairy, a mail carrier, or an author. Instead I was a waffle cone maker, a business-to-business salesperson (a job I never wanted and was absolutely terrible at), a teacher, a retail worker, and then I landed with a thud in hospitality.
Through it all, that “author” idea stuck with me. After carving out time between viewings of Hamilton on Disney+, I wrote my first novel. (It’s dark and heavy and still unpublished.) Then I fell in love (yay for wordplay!) with the Romance genre and wrote Coffee Dates and decided to share it with the world. (And by the world, I mean approximately 127 people.)
— Megan won the Elegant Literature Award in March 2023.