Thank you to all the aspiring writers who entered the ELLE Writing Competition.

We were overwhelmed by the response and received nearly 1,000 entries following our brief to pen a memoir about 'The Outfit I Will Never Wear Again'.

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Due to the huge number of entries, which described an array of experiences, some sad, some inspiring and some utterly blissful, we had to delay announcing the winner until our August issue, which is out now!

We are proud to tell you all that the winner of this year's competition is Beth Crane, 23-years-old with an entry titled 'The Outfit I Will Never Wear Again.'

We will be publishing the winning entry online very soon, watch this space.

The winner and five runners up will receive a monogrammed Smythson notebook from Selfridges.

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Hannah Nathanson
Features Director
Hannah Nathanson is Features Director at ELLE. She commissions, edits and writes stories for online and print, spanning everything from ’Generation Flake’ to cover profiles with Dua Lipa and Hailey Bieber. One of her most surreal moments as a journalist has been ‘chairing’ a conversation between Jodie Comer and Phoebe Waller-Bridge from her living room. The word she says most in the office is ‘podcast’.