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.

In this class, suited for fiction enthusiasts or writers at any stage, we’ll read a range of short stories that feature depictions of motherhood. How does language shift—or does it?—when a mother appears on the page?

In this six-week workshop with Rita Chang-Eppig (Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea), each participant will workshop a short story or novel excerpt. This course is open enrollment and designed for writers without significant workshop experience.

This September, Hannah Tinti will lead writers through the process of drafting a short story, once sentence of a time, teaching important lessons about plotting and structure along the way.

What really haunts a haunted house? Join Puloma Ghosh 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.

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.