It is literally my last day in Élan. I won’t enter this room again as Editor, next time I come back I will be a reader. I can submit for...

I knew that Romeo loved Juliet and that anything that wasn’t poetry was prose. But how do you write about that? The answer is: you can’t.

We’re approaching the end of our first year as an online literary magazine. Did you submit? Were any of your pieces published? If so,...

Do you ever get the feeling that you just can’t write? You wake up, brush your teeth, comb your hair and go off to school. You don’t...

“…and I was born, and raised, right here” were the last words spoken by Patricia Smith. The entire NJPAC theatre went silent. Breaths of...

The freshness of January is beginning to filter out with the rearing of February’s chilly-weathered days. As we writers sit, bundled in...

The Élan classroom is filled with a gentle hum as editors, public relations teams, and web designers run scatter-brained ideas by fellow...

Welcome to Élan literary magazine.  This launch of our website is the beginning of what our staff hopes will be a home for aspiring young...