ONE STORY publishes one great short story at a time. We bring people together through reading, writing, and learning about short fiction.
In Lin King’s “Yellowpeople,” as the pandemic rages and hate crimes against Asians climb in the U.S., a Taiwanese father and an American mother decide to move their young daughter to Taiwan—only to find that some of the world’s problems are inescapable.
A girl named Pen and her brother, Thomas, spend the summer in Pennsylvania with their father and his new girlfriend and discover that power and control—perhaps more so than love—are central to the adult world that awaits them.
Learn narrative structure while you write a complete short story by writing five sentences a day. Draft on your own schedule, then share your ideas and work with writers from around the world.
Asynchronous
June 20-26
Get a subscription to One Story and you’ll get one great short story in the mail each and every month.
Join our story-of-the-month club
You’ll get subscriptions, class discounts, access to our growing back issue archive, and more.
Build story that involve choice and build your own piece of interactive fiction using Twine in this five-week course designed for beginner and intermediate interactive fiction writers.
Meets Weekly
June 11 – July 9
A second-generation Chinese American teen attempts to reconcile her new, emerging self with the deep roots of her culture and ancestry in Luna Hou’s Teen Writing Contest-winning story, “Railroads.”
Meet Weekly Online
July 22- Aug 26
Submissions opened May 6 and will close when we reach our cap of 2000.
This self-guided class will teach you the ins and outs of submitting your work to literary magazines, agents, and residencies.
Self-Guided
One Story is seeking a paid part-time apprentice to join our team from September 2024 to May 2025 in Brooklyn to learn about all aspects of literary nonprofit publishing.
Apply by June 11
They’ll get a story a month. You’ll get year round gratitude.
Get Six craft lectures from OS authors. Next Up: “The Unsettling Craft of Speculative Fiction”
Live on Zoom: June 15
Anya Johanna Deniro
One Story is an independent nonprofit supported by gifts from readers and writers like you.
One Story believes that the experience of reading a small, stand-alone work of fiction can make big changes, allowing people to slow down, think deeply, and better understand our world.
Learn revision at your own pace. Finish with new skills, a helpful to-do list, and new material to move your revision in the right direction.
Self-Guided
One Story provides a submission management system to other publishers at no cost.
