Hone your craft in 2025 with eight lectures from One Story authors on the craft of fiction. Daniel Torday and Shannon Sanders will lead our next two lectures.

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.

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.

Over the course of four weeks, students will read and talk about Beloved, Toni Morrison’s classic novel. This reading group will use twelve questions to dig into character, setting, structure, and theme.

We’re hosting two site-specific writing classes  this June. Each will included a guided tour, writing exercises, time to write, and a student reading.

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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.

One Story’s editor-in-chief leads this self-guided class on putting together a cohesive collection of your fiction.

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.

Submissions will re-open on June 2.

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.