In this six-week open-level workshop, each participant will workshop a short story or novel excerpt. Designed for passionate writers who are eager to engage with the process in a supportive environment.

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.

Start your New Year by getting new work on the page! Join One Story Publisher Maribeth Batcha and One Story authors and editors for a generative fiction boot camp over five evenings in January. 

Led by Lena Valencia, this group will meet online once a month to silently read a chosen story from One Story’s archives together, followed by a visit from the author or editor of the issue and a group discussion.

A. Artemis Chen (she/her) comes from multiple diasporas, but now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her partner and two cats. She is a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop and her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in khōréō, If There’s Anyone Left, and more.

A year of lectures on the craft of fiction from eight One Story authors.

The first lecture in our 2026 Lecture Series takes place Saturday, February 7, from 4-5:15pm ET. Ayşe Papatya Bucak discusses how to make characters and stories compelling even when acts of individual agency seem out of reach.

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.

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One Story has been publishing since 2002. We never publish an author twice. Browse our back issues to see who we published when.

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This self-guided class 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, order your stories, and more.

They will re-open in the spring. Please read our guidelines before sending us your work.