Anna Alsup is an author, engineer, artist, and Austinite who writes young adult novels & shorts.

Honorable mention winner for the 2025 Annual Writing Competition in the Young Adult category for my newest YA horror romance manuscript, The Last Gate.

See all winners - WritersDigest.com.

Four-ish books in, and starting from chapter 1 still seems so daunting. You’re telling me I got to The End before? 95,000 words??? And it wasn’t the worst thing ever written? How????????
#2016 to #2026 From reading as many books as I could get my hands on to signing with a wonderful literary agent. Excited to see where the next ten years take me 📚🎉
Slightly late, but here’s my 2025 wrapped!! This past year was the worst for my chronic health condition, I had to learn how to function and live in pain, but it was also one of my most successful for my job, writing career, and hobbies. Specia
Barely took any photos at the #scbwiny26 conference, but that’s because I was so busy having a great time! @megmedinabooks and @as_king_ gave such fantastic breakout presentations. I loved the talks from @jasonreynolds83 and @writeinbk , funny,
Less than two weeks away from the NY conference! Cant wait to reconnect with everyone in person and learn from top industry folks! Message me if you’re going to the conference or the VIP night!
Merry Christmas to me… from me! It’s gonna be a good year for reading, I can already tell.
Shared the stats of my querying journey over the last 4+ years and 4 books, plus some general thoughts on the querying process (threads link in my bio)
2025 has been a fabulous reading year. EVE by @cat.bohannon was my favorite book of the year. It is a fantastic, easy to understand, feminist, science-based story that will change the way you think. The rest are favorites in no specific order! So