Students will read writers such as Ursula LeGuin, Kelly Link, Jorge Luis Borges, and Anna Kaval and explore how they use contextual cues (and clues) to create a sense of spatiality in their stories with just a few phrases and sentences.

Get a glimpse behind the scenes of the creation of Buckeye, One Story Editor-in-Chief Patrick Ryan’s bestselling multigenerational epic, in this three-day class. Students will receive a copy of the book with a bookplate signed by the author.

What really haunts a haunted house? Join Puloma Ghosh (Mouth) to ring in all hallows season with stories of houses visited by otherworldly entities and examine how they can be vessels for anxieties around family, death, memory, and society.

Hone your craft in 2025 with eight lectures from One Story authors on the craft of fiction. This year’s lecturers are Chelsey Johnson, Lin King, Libby Flores, Daniel Torday, Shannon Sanders, Terese Svoboda, Becky Mandelbaum, and ‘Pemi Aguda.

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.

This self-guided class will answer your questions about how to present your work and yourself to the editors, agents, and selection committees on the other side of the submit button.