A year of lectures on the craft of fiction from eight One Story authors. Our 2026 lecturers are Ayşe Papatya Bucak, Lior Torenberg, Chris Vanjonack, Jenn Alandy Trahan, Puloma Ghosh, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, Stephen Fishbach, and Francesca Lia Block.

In this six-week fiction workshop, each participant will workshop a short story or novel excerpt of up to 5,000 words, with discussions focusing on elements of fiction such as story structure, character development, exposition, and dialogue.

This four-week class explores how to ethically and respectfully blend fact and fiction to find our most authentic, authoritative, and engaging narrative voice.

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.

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, how to discover thematic connections, how to decide which stories to include, and how to choose the most strategic order for the stories in your manuscript.

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.