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

Chelsey Johnson leads our first lecture: The Inner Life of the Sentence.  This lecture for the obsessive or simply curious will delve into the rhythm and music of a sentence, the secret powers of punctuation, and the infinite possibilities of sentence structure.

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.

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.

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.

The DAG Prize aims to support writing that offers significant innovation. What more can prose literature be? What more can it do? The DAG Prize is meant to support a second project already underway by a writer who has published one book but whose work has not yet received prominent literary recognition.

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.