In this course, students will consider how to be attentive to our characters’ humanity. We will examine strategies for writing against stereotypes and for making secondary characters feel as full-fledged as our protagonists.

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.

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 is hiring paid summer interns to work with us in Brooklyn. This position starts in mid June and ends in August. Interns work 10 hours a week, and assist with our Writers’ Conference in July.

Spend three intensive days learning how to craft a story opening that will make readers eager to turn the page. This class is designed for writers of all experience levels. You can work on your own time and connect with the teacher and students on online message boards.

A 10-person fiction workshop featuring lectures tailored to the craft concerns of each student’s submission, this class is meant for students who have some experience sharing their writing in a workshop setting.

When you give One Story, the recipients get a great short story in the mail each and every month. You get year-round gratitude for introducing them to the best little magazine around.

Hone your craft in 2025 with eight lectures from One Story authors on the craft of fiction. Libby Flores will lead our next craft lecture.

One Story is an independent literary magazine. We are not supported by a larger organization or backed by a single funder. Instead, we rely on a a wide group of supporters who give large and small gifts year-round. Your support is incredibly necessary this year.

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.

Learn tips and techniques for revising in this self-guided class. You’ll get five in-depth revision techniques to sharpen your work. By the end of the course you’ll have new skills, a helpful to-do list, and pages of new material to move your revision in the right direction.

One Story has been publishing since 2002. Our back list contains names you may know, and some you may not. Browse our back list and order a few to keep you company this March.

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.