Start your New Year by getting new work on the page! Join One Story Executive Director Maribeth Batcha and One Story authors and editors for this online generative fiction writing class designed for writers of all skill levels. Each day, a One Story author or editor who will lead you through a fiction writing exercise designed to help you create a new scene, character, or sketch.

One Story makes a great gift for all of the readers in your life. They’ll get a great short story every month. You’ll get year-round gratitude.

“At a time when literary writing seems like a dying art, when little magazines are folding left and right, when publishers bemoan the sinking bottom line, here lies a spot of hope…It is called One Story.”  – The New York Times

This online generative fiction class will help you create drafts and build out works in process  through a series of guided exercises, craft lectures, and readings designed to help you create first drafts and build out works in progress.

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.

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One Story arrives in the mail each month like a letter from a friend. Whether you read all of the time, or want to read more, One Story fits into your pocket and into your life.

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.

Thanks to all who submitted. We’ll be announcing our winners in the new year.

This class answers frequently asked questions about how to present your work to those on the other side of the submit button.

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We have reached our fall cap. We will reopen in Spring of 2025.

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

One Story’s program income makes up half of our budget. While that’s a lot for a nonprofit like ours, we depend on individual donors and grants to make up the rest. Your support at year-end allows us to keep publishing and keep working with writers on craft.