Designed for writers who are new to workshopping their writing, each participant will share and receive feedback on a short story or novel excerpt from the instructor and their fellow students.

One Story arrives in your mailbox in an envelope like a letter from a friend. Each chapbook-sized story introduces you to a new author. No ads, no images, just a great read.

The Literary Debutante Ball is a benefit that celebrates One Story and salutes the publication of our literary debutantes’ first books. Tickets are on sale now.

Join Dan Chaon to read and discuss Thomas Tryon’s The Other, a forgotten bestseller that ushered in the horror craze of the 1970s.

In this reading group, students will be assigned up to 50 pages a week and will come together to discuss this classic of the genre.

Hone your craft in 2025 with eight lectures from One Story authors on the craft of fiction.

Link leads our next lecture: Shaping, Styling, Scaffolding: Using Form as a Narrative Tool. This lecture will explore unconventional narrative forms.

In this four-week craft course, students will discuss short stories that toy with time and experiment with temporal manipulation in their own fictional narratives.

This class designed by Patrick Ryan, editor in chief of One Story,  will help you prepare your own book-length manuscript of short stories with an eye toward sending it out into the world.

Take this class on your own time, at your own pace.

Learn tips and tricks for revision at your own pace in this self-guided class. Get five in-depth revision techniques to understand, deepen, and polish your work.

You’ll have access to this class for one full year; time to revise, revise, and revise some more.

Designed for fiction writers ready to get their work out into the world, this asynchronous class will answer the questions you have about how to present your work and yourself to the editors, agents, and selection committees on the other side of the submit button.

Since 2019, the Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship has offered financial support and mentorship to emerging writers without MFAs whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. Join One Story on Thursday, March 13 for a virtual reading with past and current fellows.

One Story has published over 320 authors in over 20 years. Take a moment and scroll through our archives. You might be surprised by who you find there.

We are busy reading submissions. We will reopen in Spring of 2025.

One Story provides a free, open-source submission management system to other publishers at no cost.

In 23 years we’ve distributed over 2,000,000 short stories, taught writing to more than 6,500 students, and published nearly 400 writers in One Story and One Teen Story.