ONE STORY publishes one great short story at a time. We bring people together through reading, writing, and learning about short fiction.
In Sanjena Sathian’s “The Love Lives of Gods and Ghosts,” a grown daughter, having moved to the U.S., returns to Bangalore to check on the construction of her mother’s future retirement home and finds herself on a narrow path between old and new worlds—and not as equipped to navigate it as she’d anticipated.
When war forces D.H. Lawrence and his wife to seek refuge at the poet H.D.’s London flat, two of the era’s greatest writers hope to deepen their longstanding intellectual affair.
In this self-guided class, Hannah Tinti will share tips, techniques, and exercises to strengthen your work. You’ll examine the foundation of your story, shore up your plot, plumb the emotions and backstories of your characters, sharpen dialogue and point of view, and refine your language and theme. 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.
Self-Guided
You’ll get one great short story in the mail each and every month. Each one is by a different author. It’s like a story-of-the-month club.
Six Months for $12.00.
When you join our patron circle you commit to an annual donation to One Story. Your support keeps us in the literary landscape and comes with great perks.
Memberships start at $60.
Part book club, part craft class, this course is meant for readers and writers alike. You’ll get a signed copy of Mystery Lights, and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this debut short story collection.
Asynchronous
September 5-7
In “A Piece of Him,” the award-winning short story by teen writer Karli Roth, a girl who’s lost her brother reconsiders the choices she’s made for how best to honor his memory.
Designed for fiction writers ready to get their work out into the world, this asynchronous class will answer frequently asked questions about how to present your work and yourself to the folks on the other side of the submit button.
Self Guided
We have reached our Spring submission cap of 2,000 submissions. We will open submissions again in the fall.
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.
One Story provides a submission management system to other publishers at no cost.
Get six video craft lectures from our last year’s Summer Conference and one book talk. Now through July.
Video Lectures