This is a four-day-a-week (3 in-office, 1 remote) salaried position with benefits that supports the executive director, the editorial staff, and the smooth running of day-to-day business operations of One Story’s office in Brooklyn, NY. 

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. With NEA funding at risk, your support is incredibly necessary this year.

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.

Ann Napolitano, author of the bestselling novels Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward, will help you think about how to make careful decisions about life away from your desk so that you can get your best work done during your writing time.

We know it’s early, but why not get a jump on holiday giving and give One Story at our 2002 rate?

They’ll get a new story each month. You’ll get year-round gratitude.

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.

Hone your craft in 2025 with eight lectures on the craft of fiction.  In our next lecture, Tell-Tale Awareness, ‘Pemi Aguda will discuss the overlap between description, character, and plot.

For our One Teen Story contest, we ask writers ages 13-19 to enter their original, unpublished fiction. We are interested in great short stories of any genre about the teen experience. What’s in a great short story? Interesting teen characters, strong writing, and a beginning, middle, and end.

This self-guided class designed by Editor-in-Chief Patrick Ryan will help you hone and refine a cohesive collection of your own work. You’ll learn how to assess each story you’ve written, discover thematic connections, decide which stories to include, order the stories in your manuscript and prepare your manuscript for submission.

Be the first to get news and updates, to know when our submission period reopens, and to learn about new classes and opportunities.

Join today and get 10% off your first purchase.

They will re-open November 3, 2025.

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