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Read Issue #321

Trampoline

By Lauren K. Watel

A woman in the deepest depths of the pandemic lockdown orders a trampoline for her family and experiences, in its presence, an uncoupling from her life and a longing for a self she’s all but forgotten.

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Read Issue #320

Shadow Memories

By Jeneé Skinner

In Jeneé Skinner’s “Shadow Memories,” a daughter recounts her harrowing journey away from an impossible parent, and the challenges of trying to make her way back.

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2025 Lecture Series

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.

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Saturday February 15
4-5:15pm ET

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Join us: The Literary Debutante Ball returns May 16th!

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 us in Brooklyn for the literary party of the year!

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Thomas Tryon’s The Other with Dan Chaon

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.

Online (Zoom)
Tuesdays, 7-9 pm ET
March 4 – 25

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Beginner Fiction Workshop with Rita Chang-Eppig

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.

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Thursdays, 7-9:15pm ET
April 3-May 15

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Time in Fiction: Subject, Object, Function, Principle with Rachel Lyon

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.

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Wednesdays,  7-9pm ET
March 5-26

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Building Your Collection with Patrick Ryan

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.

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Revise with Hannah Tinti

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.

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Read Issue #77

Photoelectric

By Elane Kim

What do you do when a dear friend is suffering, and you can’t help them? Elane Kim plumbs the depths of that question in “Photoelectric,” one of the winning stories of our Teen Writing Contest.

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Hit Submit

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.

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$35 / $25

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Introducing the DAG Prize for Literature

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.

Applications due March 15, 2025

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Check Out Our Back Issues

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.

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One Story Submissions Are Closed

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

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

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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.