ONE STORY publishes one great short story at a time. We bring people together through reading, writing, and learning about short fiction.
In Gina Chung’s funny but heartbreaking “The Arrow,” a single, underemployed, 35-year-old Korean American woman in Brooklyn is pregnant and alone. When she surprises herself by choosing to keep the baby, she has nowhere to turn for support except to her estranged mother—but will her mom help, or only make things worse?
In One Story Issue #306, Michael Colbert’s “How to Be a Couple’s Third,” a man tired of looking for a boyfriend on dating apps decides to pursue an older couple.
The One Story Writing Circle is a year-long education program and accountability group.Join a small cohort of fiction writers looking to devote a year to improving their craft and process.
Apply by December 10
Share stories instead of stuff. They’ll get a story each month. You’ll get year-round gratitude.
Gifts are just $20
Gifts from readers and writers have allow us to remain a vital part of the literary landscape.
Your support before the end of the year will help us find our way to 2024.
Join bestselling author Ann Napolitano for a class designed to help you shape your day-to-day habits with an eye towards your writing, enabling you to best serve your work.
December 7-10
In Oliver Reimers’ “Eleven Things You Don’t Remember”—one of the winners of our Teen Writing Contest—a friendship between two teens changes when longing and wanderlust enter the picture.
In this self-guided class Hannah Tinti will share techniques and exercises that she’s developed over the past two decades as an editor and teacher to help bring your work to the next level.
Self-Guided
Get a subscription to One Story and you’ll get one great short story in the mail each and every month.
Join our story of the month club
Writers ages 13-19 can enter original, unpublished fiction. We are interested in great short stories of any genre about the teen experience.
Submit by November 27
January 30 – March 5
One Story provides a submission management system to other publishers at no cost.
We have reached our fall submission limit and will reopen in early 2024.
