AbstractWe introduce a sequence of isolated curve singularities, the elliptic m-fold points, and an associated sequence of stability conditions, generalizing the usual definition of Deligne–Mumford stability. For every pair of integers 1≤m<n, we prove that the moduli problem of n-pointed m-stable curves of arithmetic genus one is representable by a proper irreducible Deligne–Mumford stack $\overline {\mathcal {M}}_{1,n}(m)$. We also consider weighted variants of these stability conditions, and construct the corresponding moduli stacks $\overline {\mathcal {M}}_{1,\mathcal {A}}(m)$. In forthcoming work, we will prove that these stacks have projective coarse moduli and use the resulting spaces to give a complete description of the log minimal model program for $\overline {M}_{1,n}$.